This week has been a blur of finishing our dossier (the official packet of information that actually goes to Ethiopia and becomes the “picture” of the Hopkins family that the Ethiopian government uses as the basis of their decision about letting us adopt these three kids). Monday was spent in Helena dropping off our I600A (Petition for Advance Processing of an Orphan) and being fingerprinted for our FBI background check. We also had our cover letter and power of attorney authenticated by the ever-gracious Della at the Secretary of State’s office.

Now, we wait for our case worker at Christian World Adoption to finish “proofing” our dossier. Once he completes that process, he will send us the final piece of the dossier—which then means we will send it on to a courier in Washington, DC (www.asststork.com) who will hand carry it to the US State Department for authentication and then onto the Embassy of Ethiopia for one final authentication (it ought to be truly authentic with all that authentication going on ;-).

Our courier will then FedEx the freshly authenticated dossier to Christian World Adoption in North Carolina where they will lovingly package it for shipment to Ethiopia.

Would you please pray with us that we can get this dossier wrapped up and sent off very soon? We’re trying to race against the clock to beat the Ethiopian Court’s recess so that we could possibly bring the kids home this summer.

Thanks so much for your prayer and support in these days. We deeply appreciate every one of you.