Good news and some not so good news

Let's start with the good news first, shall we? We got our court date set yesterday! June 30! Please join us in praying that we will pass court the first time around and be able to travel 2-3 weeks later. We haven't yet received our tentative travel dates, but that is the approximate time frame that we are working with.

And the not so good news...we received an email yesterday from the family that was taking a care package to M and found out that he has not been eating well. He has become dehydrated and has been placed on an IV (in his forehead- poor baby!). We've been in contact with our family coordinator and she is trying to get us some more information about how he's doing. So many of the children that come through the Transition Home (which is where M is right now) have trouble with eating and spend some time on an IV during their stay there. Our family coordinator said that while it is alarming to us, it is fairly standard procedure over there and that's why we haven't been notified about it yet.

We are thanking the Lord for Jason (the dad from the family who gave us this information) because he made the extra effort to find out what was going on and even had a chance to hold M and pray over him. We are SO thankful for that! (And if you have a minute go read about Jason's family and their updates from Ethiopia.) Please just pray that M would begin to eat well again and that the Lord would comfort his sweet little heart that is having to process way too much. Hopefully we will have an update soon about his condition.

Thank you for praying with us and for us!