DRC News - Please Help!

Many of you have asked where we are in the adoption process, if we know who Caleb is, when he is coming home....

Those are all great questions and we wish we had those answers ourselves.  When we started researching over a year ago we thought we would be in a different place on our timeline by now.  What we couldn't foresee was the DR Congo suspending adoptions.

Where are we in the process? We have our dossier basically ready to go. However, we haven't sent it.  Here is why.  There are between 500-600 adopted children stuck in country right now.  Once the country opens all of the families will need to be processed. Our guess is before any "new" families get through.

We are also a bit concerned about the direction the the DR Congo is taking.  Is there a chance the suspension could be indefinite?  Yes, there is always that chance.  When we submit our dossier we have to make a large financial deposit.  We have been blessed by many of you who have supported us financially. We want to be very careful to be a good steward of those finances.  We also do not have all that we need. Janaa's adoption was a great testimony of God's provision.  Every time we needed a deposit...it showed up.  God has not provided that yet.  We can't help but wonder if it is His protection on guiding us on His timeline.

Do we know who Caleb is?  No.  Honestly, this month has been a hard one. We didn't expect that we wouldn't know what his sweet face looked like by this point. However, referrals come after the dossier is sent to the  DR Congo so until that is sent we will not have a referral.

When is he coming home?  No clue!!! Not even a guess at the timeline anymore.  With the suspension all timelines, guesses and estimates are off.

I am posting a few articles and videos below.  I know that when you're not involved it's hard to care in the same way.  Been there! If you have a second please check them out.

We covet your prayers.  But there is also something you can DO to help.  Below is a link to a petition to Congress. Please take a couple of minutes to submit it.

There is a delegation coming from Kinshasa in a couple of weeks. While they have been saying it is to help work through all that is going on with adoptions, it is becoming more clear that they aren't really focusing on this.  At this point only 1 agency is allowed 1 hour with the delegation.  We were on a conference call with the Embassy in Kinshasa and a few other government agencies 2 weeks ago.  We were much less than impressed with their work.  It is very frustrating.

Children who are legally adopted are dying while waiting to be released from the country. Please help the families who are stuck and in the long run it will be helping us as well.


Both Ends Burning - They produced the movie STUCK

Short News Video on a Stuck Family

Petition 2 Congress. - Please take a moment and fill out the petition