Meeting with Chris at the "O"

Meeting with Chris
We met with the HIS home director, Chris, today. The meeting went about as well as it possibly could have. Thank you so much for all of your prayers! I know that we were covered in prayer….
The result was not what I would have ever imagined …. We are going out on a limb here! Vera, the adoption processor, went with us to Chris’s and she is very knowledgeable.

We decided after much discussion that we would process the two adoptions separately and get started with Rachelle’s ASAP with her staying right where she is at. Her mother has given Chris permission to adopt her and that what we are going to try to do.

Addy’s birth certificate has presented a bigger problem and the mayor’s office that we are working with has proved impossible. Apparently, there have been some that have waited over 2 yrs for just the certificate from that mayor and then they have needed to go thru the rest of the adoption process. We figured out that the mayor’s office that we are using could be changed if we would move Addy to another orphanage that is located in a district with a mayor’s office that is much faster. Some have had birth certificates in as little as two weeks to two months. We are still waiting for this certificate after working at it over a year and the mayor is to blame....So we are moving Addy on Wednesday. She is going to move to an orphanage that Vera has recommended.

Vera had to go to another appt in the afternoon so we drove her there and then went back to HIS home and met with the girls to tell them the plan and why we are doing this. It should process their adoption more quickly and we can get started on something right away. They both took it pretty well. I was able to take them back to the hotel with me today and tomorrow they are getting blood work, medical exams and psych exams then they are going to spend the night back at HIS home so that Addy can say goodbye to her friends there. Wednesday morning we are taking her to the new orphanage.

This has been a very hard day and I am totally exhausted. Please continue to pray that we are doing the right thing and if there is anything we are missing that the Lord would open our eyes to what we need to be aware of. The stories for the two “experts” Chris and Vera are so very different that it’s hard to know what to believe.

Thanks for taking the time to ‘listen’.

Tamela