Another month has come and gone. There has been no news for anyone in the Rwandan adoption process, so we are not alone in this wait. About every two weeks I email our adoption agency and check in and wait another two weeks. The Lord has been faithful in providing peace and encouragement in so many ways. Just this morning in my devotions I read:
“Be strong… and work; for I am with you” says the Lord of host. Hag. 2:4
“The joy of the LORD is my strength” Neh. 8:10
“Let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart.” Gal. 6:9
So we will wait another month and not lose heart.
Until next month,
Jill
Friday, February 3, 2012
Friday, December 30, 2011
DTR 16 Months
DTR 16 Months
We thought December was going to be the big month, and I remember a year ago thinking that 2011 was going to be a big year for our adoption. Well both have come and gone and not much has happened. The latest news in our adopt ion is that MIGEPROF no longer governs adoption in Rwanda. In order to better focus on adoption and children’s issues, they have started the National Children’s Commission in Rwanda, which will now preside over all children’s affairs in the country. Currently, MIGEPROF’s staff is transitioning over to the Commission. Once the staff is fully transitioned, we are hopeful the Ministry will resume the referral matching process. Currently, adoption and the National Children’s Summit are their top priorities. We are encouraged by their initiative in improving the adoption processing. So while they are in transition we will wait and hope and pray that this will help the adoption process for us and for all the adoptions to come. Most importantly we hope this helps the children of Rwanda!!
Thank you again for all your prayers and support. We had some dear friends clean out a lot of their baby stuff and donate to us. It was such a blessing and encouragement.
Thank you!!
We thought December was going to be the big month, and I remember a year ago thinking that 2011 was going to be a big year for our adoption. Well both have come and gone and not much has happened. The latest news in our adopt ion is that MIGEPROF no longer governs adoption in Rwanda. In order to better focus on adoption and children’s issues, they have started the National Children’s Commission in Rwanda, which will now preside over all children’s affairs in the country. Currently, MIGEPROF’s staff is transitioning over to the Commission. Once the staff is fully transitioned, we are hopeful the Ministry will resume the referral matching process. Currently, adoption and the National Children’s Summit are their top priorities. We are encouraged by their initiative in improving the adoption processing. So while they are in transition we will wait and hope and pray that this will help the adoption process for us and for all the adoptions to come. Most importantly we hope this helps the children of Rwanda!!
Thank you again for all your prayers and support. We had some dear friends clean out a lot of their baby stuff and donate to us. It was such a blessing and encouragement.
Thank you!!
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
DTR 15 months
In the Holding Pattern
I was hoping to have some GREAT news for you at this time, but instead I just have some news. As many of you know Dec 10th is a 6 month deadline for our dossier approval. Previously we were told that if Rwanda was not able to refer our children to us by this time that they would close our case. Well that has changed. The good news is that our case will not be closed come Dec 10th; they will keep working on our case until it is done, Ya!! The flip side of this is that they do not know when they will get to our case, it could be 6 weeks or 6 months we don’t know. So that is kind of frustrating when we have been hoping and planning on traveling during Dec, but we know that God’s timing in all of this will be perfect in all of this. Recently we also received some news that our case is at the Ministry’s office. It has not gone to the orphanage yet, because the nun’s at the orphanage have a stack of cases that they are working on right now. When they have finished with those cases then they will get new ones to work on. We don’t know when our case will move on to the orphanage, but it is encouraging to know that they are talking about us and they know where our dossier is at. So we are back in the holding pattern.
We have been encouraged by so many people, and so many people are praying for us it has been great. It is been wonderful to see how the body of Christ has come together and lifted us up in prayer; we couldn’t do this without it! Thank you all so much!!
Jill
I was hoping to have some GREAT news for you at this time, but instead I just have some news. As many of you know Dec 10th is a 6 month deadline for our dossier approval. Previously we were told that if Rwanda was not able to refer our children to us by this time that they would close our case. Well that has changed. The good news is that our case will not be closed come Dec 10th; they will keep working on our case until it is done, Ya!! The flip side of this is that they do not know when they will get to our case, it could be 6 weeks or 6 months we don’t know. So that is kind of frustrating when we have been hoping and planning on traveling during Dec, but we know that God’s timing in all of this will be perfect in all of this. Recently we also received some news that our case is at the Ministry’s office. It has not gone to the orphanage yet, because the nun’s at the orphanage have a stack of cases that they are working on right now. When they have finished with those cases then they will get new ones to work on. We don’t know when our case will move on to the orphanage, but it is encouraging to know that they are talking about us and they know where our dossier is at. So we are back in the holding pattern.
We have been encouraged by so many people, and so many people are praying for us it has been great. It is been wonderful to see how the body of Christ has come together and lifted us up in prayer; we couldn’t do this without it! Thank you all so much!!
Jill
Thursday, November 3, 2011
DTR 14 months
Well the travel group is done with all their paperwork and should be heading back to the states soon. We are so thankfully that most things have gone pretty smooth for them!!
We just had our home study update visit today, and it went very well. It was more of a logistical thing than any thing else. Since we had a new social worker on our case and it has been almost two years since we did our home study, they needed to just check in on us. When we get the paper work on the update notarized and to us, then we will mil it to USCIS and wait for them to update another form called our I-171H. All this has to be done just in case we travel and do not make it back into the US before Dec.28, 2011.
I am still hopeing to travel during the month of Dec, even though we have no proff of this happening yet. Now that it is Nov every day I get a little more excited, and worried all at the same time. This reminds me of when you are pregnant and every kick or cramp you wonder is it time to go to the hospital!! But when I was pregnant I knew when we were getting close because my tummy got bigger and bigger. With the adoption I have no idea when it is going to happen, one morning I will wake up and there will be an email with the picture of my children!! My husband says it kind of like the man side of child birth, one day you get a phone call and it's time to go to the hospital, and then you have a child!! I told him i would not be a very good husband waiting for that phone call.
I have kept myself busy with knitting a baby hat, which I'm on my third attempt, the first two have been way to big. I also have some fabric to make baby blankets, since it will be very cold here for them. We haven't gotten brother and sisters bedroom ready yet, still waiting to see how old they are. But I have lots of things on standby ready to go so it should be pretty easy to do. Please keep us In your prayers for pations and endurance as we wait this month out one day at a time.
We just had our home study update visit today, and it went very well. It was more of a logistical thing than any thing else. Since we had a new social worker on our case and it has been almost two years since we did our home study, they needed to just check in on us. When we get the paper work on the update notarized and to us, then we will mil it to USCIS and wait for them to update another form called our I-171H. All this has to be done just in case we travel and do not make it back into the US before Dec.28, 2011.
I am still hopeing to travel during the month of Dec, even though we have no proff of this happening yet. Now that it is Nov every day I get a little more excited, and worried all at the same time. This reminds me of when you are pregnant and every kick or cramp you wonder is it time to go to the hospital!! But when I was pregnant I knew when we were getting close because my tummy got bigger and bigger. With the adoption I have no idea when it is going to happen, one morning I will wake up and there will be an email with the picture of my children!! My husband says it kind of like the man side of child birth, one day you get a phone call and it's time to go to the hospital, and then you have a child!! I told him i would not be a very good husband waiting for that phone call.
I have kept myself busy with knitting a baby hat, which I'm on my third attempt, the first two have been way to big. I also have some fabric to make baby blankets, since it will be very cold here for them. We haven't gotten brother and sisters bedroom ready yet, still waiting to see how old they are. But I have lots of things on standby ready to go so it should be pretty easy to do. Please keep us In your prayers for pations and endurance as we wait this month out one day at a time.
Saturday, October 15, 2011
Travel group
Just wanted to let you know that a group of people from our adoption agency are all in Rwanda now. I will try and attch links to there blogs so you can follow along their adoption journey.
http://recyclingforrwanda.blogspot.com/
http://mitchellfamilysix.blogspot.com/
http://accebersjourneytoafrica.blogspot.com/
http://avintagefaith.blogspot.com/
Please keep all these families in your prayers over the next three weeks.
James 1:17, "Pure and lasting religion in the sight of god our Father means that we must care for orphans and windows in their troubles, and refuse to let the world corrupt us."
Love
Jill
http://recyclingforrwanda.blogspot.com/
http://mitchellfamilysix.blogspot.com/
http://accebersjourneytoafrica.blogspot.com/
http://avintagefaith.blogspot.com/
Please keep all these families in your prayers over the next three weeks.
James 1:17, "Pure and lasting religion in the sight of god our Father means that we must care for orphans and windows in their troubles, and refuse to let the world corrupt us."
Love
Jill
Sunday, October 2, 2011
DTR 13 Months
DTR 13 Months
Our paperwork has been in Rwanda now 13 months!! Wow!! The other big date that we are looking to is December 10. We should get our referral (be matched with our kids) on or before this date, but this date too is not concrete either, like all things in this adoption it could take longer (but we are praying that we will be together for Christmas!!).
TRAVEL GROUP
The other good news is that three AWAA families are getting ready to travel!! There is only one blog to follow if you wanted to follow their trip to Rwanda. This family is amazing!!
http://accebersjourneytoafrica.blogspot.com
SIX LEFT
In the AWAA Rwanda program there are only six families left (including us) who have not received referrals!! When Rwanda quick accepting dossiers and assigned all of our dossiers numbers, there were 28 families in the AWAA Rwandan program, and our family is 3ed from last on the list. Many of us in this group started tracking and praying and fasting for these families. It has been amazing to see how God has answered so many prayers and brought home so many children to their forever family!!
Now I have started paperwork to update our home study which will lead to updating other paperwork. It is kind of nice to have some work to do on the adoption after having so long with nothing to do but wait. I feel like we are in the final stretches of this and covet your prayers. First for the families traveling in Oct/Nov., second that we would be with our Rwandan children for Christmas.
Thanks so much for your support
Jill & Tim Bruno
Our paperwork has been in Rwanda now 13 months!! Wow!! The other big date that we are looking to is December 10. We should get our referral (be matched with our kids) on or before this date, but this date too is not concrete either, like all things in this adoption it could take longer (but we are praying that we will be together for Christmas!!).
TRAVEL GROUP
The other good news is that three AWAA families are getting ready to travel!! There is only one blog to follow if you wanted to follow their trip to Rwanda. This family is amazing!!
http://accebersjourneytoafrica.blogspot.com
SIX LEFT
In the AWAA Rwanda program there are only six families left (including us) who have not received referrals!! When Rwanda quick accepting dossiers and assigned all of our dossiers numbers, there were 28 families in the AWAA Rwandan program, and our family is 3ed from last on the list. Many of us in this group started tracking and praying and fasting for these families. It has been amazing to see how God has answered so many prayers and brought home so many children to their forever family!!
Now I have started paperwork to update our home study which will lead to updating other paperwork. It is kind of nice to have some work to do on the adoption after having so long with nothing to do but wait. I feel like we are in the final stretches of this and covet your prayers. First for the families traveling in Oct/Nov., second that we would be with our Rwandan children for Christmas.
Thanks so much for your support
Jill & Tim Bruno
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Movement
I just wanted to share with all of you how excited we are for several families in the adoption process. Three families in our AWAA Rwanda group have received referrals!! It has been a at least three months or so since anyone on our group has received any referrals. The other very cool thing is that there are only eight people in our group who have not received referrals. ( that I know about). Only eight of us waiting for referrals!! That is amazing!! You see when we were assigned numbers, a long time ago, there were 125 people in front of us waiting for referrals, and 30 of them were in our group. I feel like we have prayed and fasted through so many adoptions and now we are down to the final 8 !! praise God!! I am so over joyed!!
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