Jacob and Willy

Dear Praying Friends,

After more than four years of paperwork and pursuing adoption, we are finally about to meet our sons! You can imagine that our hearts are full of many emotions — we are relieved, excited, hopeful, and nervous all at the same time!

And we have so many questions: How are William and Jacob feeling about all this? How much do they even understand about what is about to happen as 3- and 4-year olds? What are the boys’ personalities like? What will it be like meeting them for the first time and what will we say? (“Bonjour, je suis Maman,” seems very strange!) How long will it take for us to adjust to one another?

There are also a lot of logistical details that still need to be worked out. We have purchased our tickets but we don’t yet have a confirmed place to stay in Conakry. We plan to be there April 19th – 26th. Then we need to have medical checkups for the boys and schedule our interview at the US Embassy in Dakar before we can bring the boys home. In the midst of all this, our adoption agency’s Hague accreditation just expired and the government accrediting body has quit so our agency is trying to cope with that and we are hoping that this won’t affect us since we are so near the end of the process.

We covet your prayers for us at this time. Pray for all the final pieces of the process to be completed. And most importantly, pray for the Lord to tenderly shepherd Will and Jake through the coming transition, to give us wisdom and grace as we learn to parent them, and to knit us together as a family of seven!

With rejoicing and trepidation,

Katie and Corey