Weekly Update

Hello everyone! I hope you all had a good week and will be enjoying a relaxing weekend.

We received our weekly update from our agency on Friday. It had an encouraging tone to it. It was shared that our agency (FTIA) is continuing to match families with children. There were not any actual referrals but the matching is encouraging. There is news that JCICS had a successful meeting while in Vietnam recently. They continue to advocate for Vietnam adoptions to continue and for a new MOU (Memorandum of Understanding) which is set to expire on Sept 1, 2008 be rewritten to everyones satisfaction and be renewed before Sept. 1st. If it is not renewed, our agency along with many other organizations for adoption are encouraging Vietnam to allow those "in process" to continue. We aren't quite sure what the definition of "in process" will be at this time because it has not yet been defined but we continue to be hopeful and prayerful that the MOU will be renewed on or BEFORE Sept 1, 2008.

As we continue to wait and see what the weeks and months hold we look to James for encouragement:

James 1:27
Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.