Adoption update -- great news!
This is a copy of an email I sent out a few minutes ago. If you're not on our newsletter list and you'd like to be, please send me an email and let me know.
We have a hearing!!
The 28th of May at 10am we will be heading to Wolsztyn for what we pray is the final hearing in our adoption process. After meeting today with the kids' case worker we found out that the judge scheduled the hearing and has requested that Paulina go to speak before the court personally, representing herself and her brothers. He evidently wants to give her the opportunity to voice her feelings and desires. The case worker seemed confident that he would be ready to finalize the adoption at that hearing.
There is obviously a part of us that is resisting getting too excited about this because of all of the ups and downs that we've already been through. We can't stress enough how much we ask for your prayer support over the next weeks. Pray that God's hand will hold back the negativity from the woman in Warsaw (Ms. Passini). Pray that that same hand steadies Paulina's nerves...as she's already nervous about standing in front of the judge. And pray that the resolution we've all been pleading for for this past year will finally be granted!!
I hope you find joy in this news! We thank you so much for your constant support and love....and we together thank God for his faithfulness to us as He has used this time to grow us individually and as a family. Many things have happened in our lives that would not have been possible without this long, difficult wait.
Have a wonderful day and rest of the week! Of course, more info will follow as we receive it!!
Much love,
Michael and family
We have a hearing!!
The 28th of May at 10am we will be heading to Wolsztyn for what we pray is the final hearing in our adoption process. After meeting today with the kids' case worker we found out that the judge scheduled the hearing and has requested that Paulina go to speak before the court personally, representing herself and her brothers. He evidently wants to give her the opportunity to voice her feelings and desires. The case worker seemed confident that he would be ready to finalize the adoption at that hearing.
There is obviously a part of us that is resisting getting too excited about this because of all of the ups and downs that we've already been through. We can't stress enough how much we ask for your prayer support over the next weeks. Pray that God's hand will hold back the negativity from the woman in Warsaw (Ms. Passini). Pray that that same hand steadies Paulina's nerves...as she's already nervous about standing in front of the judge. And pray that the resolution we've all been pleading for for this past year will finally be granted!!
I hope you find joy in this news! We thank you so much for your constant support and love....and we together thank God for his faithfulness to us as He has used this time to grow us individually and as a family. Many things have happened in our lives that would not have been possible without this long, difficult wait.
Have a wonderful day and rest of the week! Of course, more info will follow as we receive it!!
Much love,
Michael and family
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