Please Continue to Pray

This has been a very long, emotional week for us. Today, we hosted our second annual Adoption Sunday at church. It went very well and we feel God used us to promote adoption. We used this time to ask people to pray for us and Alea. Court will be at 9:30 p.m. tomorrow night our time (Monday, Eastern Time). We have friends and family coming over to pray with us during this time.

We talked to Ted Skiles tonight on the phone and he said that he is hopeful, but he doesn't want to build false hope in us. He said that the orphanage's pastor and wife (who have adopted) will be joining Anna at court. They plan to meet early to talk to the birthmother. Please pray that God guides their conversations. I wrote a letter to the birthmother that will be given to her just prior to court. Pray that she will see and understand that adoption is a great thing here in America and that Alea will have a very loving forever family. Ted said the biggest dilema facing this mom is that she was adopted as a child and was considered and outcast in the Buddhist community. They have tried to reassure her that it is not that way in the Christian community and Alea will not deal with those same kinds of things.

Please keep praying! We will give an update when we know something.