My Safe Haven

Hey guys, I just wanted to give a quick update.  As far as Beza goes, he is doing great! January 7th was Christmas for Ethiopia and our agency took all the children out for a special day.  They went to an arcade and had hamburgers and French fries!  We got quit the kick out of that! They took several pictures of the kids and in Beza's photo he was stuffing a hamburger in his mouth.  As much as I wouldn't condone French fries and hamburgers for dinner, it made me happy to see him enjoying an American meal.  So I may need to lower my standards in the coming months! Ha ha!

Today we received some not so fun news about our grant funds.  Our agency had hopes that we would be able to access the funds sooner then later and now that is not the case.  Last week we were under the impression we only had $2100 left for our referral fees but now were back up to around $6500, plus travel.  This may all be so confusing, but I want to explain it the best way I can.  Once those funds are released to our agency (after first court appearance) they will hang onto it until our adoption is complete. We may have some extra fees that will come up such as Child Care fees.  We are now responsible for his daily care of $15 a day and we initially pay for the first 90 days.  But mostly likely we will not have a completed adoption within 90 days, so that's where those extra fees may come in.  So they would be able to access the grant money to cover that.  Then if there is anything left they will give it to us. 

So I am writing to ask for LOTS of prayer! 

1. Pray for our sweet Beza and even though he doesn't know about us yet, that his heart would start to be softened.
2. Pray for us, Satan is definitely trying to work his way in when good things are happening.  
3. Pray that we seek The Lord for all our funding avenues.  It may not look the way we thought it would be, so we just need to be open minded. 

THANK YOU and we love you all!!