Dossier Location Unknown and Need a Referral Soon

Hi all, here's our latest list of prayer requests, but first we have a praise.

The orphanage is now allowing children to be received again. However, there aren't any adoptable children there at the moment.

Prayer Requests:

1) That our dossier is not lost but is just finishing clearing customs. Our dossier was sent 3 weeks ago today. It left Hanoi (the capital) to go to the province 2 weeks ago yesterday. It's not unusual for a dossier to sit in customs for a week or so, but now that we're over 3 weeks we're starting to get apprehensive.

Please pray that our dossier is delivered safe and sound to our facilitator very soon.

2) Please pray that we receive an official referral in time (by Sept. 1). This means that any adoptable children will have to be found and brought to the orphanage by June 1. After that ads have to be run, paperwork completed, and then wait for the official referral to come from DIA (Department of International Adoption--the Vietnam side).

3) Please pray that there aren't any more bumps, road blocks, whatevers in the process. We had another scare today that kept me glued to the computer following leads for hours. A newspaper misprinted the end date for referrals as July 1 and made it sound like it came from the head of DIA. Then several other newspapers all copied the original article but made it look like there was multiple sources all verifying the new date. Arrrgggghhhh!!! Not true, it's been verified that the end date is still Sept. 1. Whewww!

Thanks for praying,
Shae