Announced Ending Dates

Our US Embassy in Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam, has announced that dossiers have to be logged in by July 1, 2008, and only those families that have an official referral by September 1, 2008 will be allowed to continue to process their adoptions.

So here's our list of prayer requests:

1) Our dossier left the US on April 8. It was originally supposed to be delivered by the 18th which then changed to "In Transit" since the 14th. We do not know where our dossier is AGAIN. It could be sitting at customs or still being transported 11 days later.

Please pray that our dossier is delivered to our agency's facilitator (employee that does all in-country stuff) ASAP. He still has to translate it into Vietnamese and take it back to Hanoi to be logged in with DIA (Dept. of International Adoptions).

2) Please pray for the situation in the province. It is not good. I can't go into detail. It has to do with some of the prayer requests below but with more specifics.

3) Please pray that we have an official referral long before Sept. 1. We are still next in line.

4) Please pray that the orphanage director will allow paperwork to be processed on any unmatched orphans that are there. This is very important. Paperwork and ads take several months. If he does not start soon, it will be too, late.

5) Please pray that the director will allow true orphans into the orphanage instead of turning them away.

6) Please pray that other orphanages may even be opened as needed. This is a possibility. It is stuck in the "red tape" process right now. A new orphanage would definitely help the situation.

7) Please pray for the orphans of Vietnam. Pray that true orphans will find forever families. Yes, there has been a few cases of misconduct within the adoption process as there is in any country including ours. Overall the adoptions there are ethical. Pray for discernment for our Immigration investigators that they will find the wrong doing but not punish all the innocent people involved in ethical adoptions as well.

We really need and appreciate your prayers.

Thanks,
Shae