We awoke this morning to find our email empty of our referral, it was a bit disappointing, but God sustains us. We were so thrilled, though, to learn of 3 families in our group who did receive their referrals today. That is quite a lot of movement and we are so excited for these families. It is exciting for all of us, any movement is positive for us and definitely great for the kids waiting for families. So, we are hoping that our referral will be in the next batch sent out, praying if that is God's will.
Now for the but...
When we submitted our dossier to the Rwandan Ministry to request approval to adopt from their country the expected timelines were submission to approval to referral to travel in about 10 months, maybe less. We of course hoped for less but tried to prepare our hearts for the high end. We had no idea that Rwanda was about to become such a hot spot to adopt, though we understand why. The country has our hearts so completely. We cannot wait to travel there to pick up our son, and to travel again someday in the future will all our kids. We love it already, so why wouldn't so many other families feel the same way.
Our hoped for travel timeline - 7 months
The expected longest wait travel timeline - 10 months
God's perfect timing travel timeline - 17 months and 17 days
Guess we just needed to do some Math, I should have thought of that :) Yes, we are traveling! The Ministry has a child matched to us for a referral and we think it is coming very soon, so we are making plans, with the invitation of our agency, to travel with the next travel group. We couldn't have been more excited yesterday when we got the call to ask if we wanted to go. Our dear, best friends are in this group and how we have prayed these last 2 years to get to travel together. Now we are! It has been a whirlwind in the last 30 hours talking, praying, calling for advice, asking questions, praying... And now we have our flight reservations. We will be heading to Denver to meet up with our friends, then off to Washington, DC to meet up with our group to head to Africa.
The most amazing part, besides God opening this door, sustaining us through the long wait, bringing the blessing of such amazing new friends,...Ok, so the amazing part today is that we leave in 2 weeks! Yes, we are off on Apr 30th for Kigali, Rwanda and we just can't wait. It will be a very busy 2 weeks getting all ready, we have done so much to be ahead of things, all we could think to do early, but now we need to finish up and pack.
It is so exciting and thrilling and amazing and after the wait it is funny how we can't believe we are soon to go. We will keep you posted on each step, much to do this weekend, so we better get back to it.
Sheri
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