Beautiful Papers

Kim and I never thought we would look at paperwork as "beautiful", but this paperwork truly is gorgeous in more ways than one.  First, the lovely gold stickers, the red ribbons, the neat stamps and signatures.  It really is lovely.  More importantly, much more importantly, this is the paperwork that is going to bring Francesca home!

Kim has worked so hard on all of this and after hundreds of phone calls, many hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars capped off by a trip to Columbus to personally usher our papers thru the Ohio Secretary of State's office and then phone calls and hiring a company to personally usher it thru the US Secretary of State's office, (yes, Hillary signed each packet!), and then the Haitian Consulate, the completed paperwork was returned to us in a very short period of time.  On Monday, a friend and employee of Christianville took it all to Haiti in his carry-on bag and hand delivered it to our facilitator waiting for him at the Port Au Prince airport.  Today it will go to get all of the seals verified and we are off.....

The process has been incredible and at times extremely frustrating. However you can at least understand why you need to do all the they ask of you.  It is of note that the US and Haitian government will now know exactly what is in my bank account and criminal record, to what is in my colon!, (nothing of note in any of those, by the way).

While the paperwork is off and running, it is important for us to remember there are still several things that can derail this process and we have heard the stories.  So, please continue to pray for us if you would.  Please pray that the process continues successfully and on God's timing, (hoping of course God's timing is the same as ours!), and pray Francesca remains happy, healthy, well fed and comfortable......

thank you all and may God bless you......