Miracles Do Happen!

Yesterday was a great day for the Epperson family! We finally got our TEP reciepts. This doesn't actually mean that we have them in our hands but we did recieve a letter saying that they had been approved and could we please pay them a boat load of money for this great honor of recieving our TEP's! No really this is a great thing. Now if and when we are stopped by the police for routine checks we have official papers saying we are here legally in the country.

Plus.....now we can really start the process for fostering to adopt. I don't really know what that all entails but I am hoping that we can at least start doing weekend visits with Gift while we sort out the requirements for adopting here. Please pray that this process will be as smooth as it can be in a country where adoption proceedings are ambiguous at best. The TEP's are only the first miracle that will need to happen in order for us to adopt Gift. We will now start working with the crisis nursery and our social worker here to get things going. The last I heard from the manager of the crisis nursery was that Gift is still considered a "police case" since he was abandoned. She is trying to light a fire under them to get the case closed so that he becomes "free" for adoption. It is hard to have patience in this but I know that God has a perfect plan for Gift and if that plan is for him to become part of our family then he will work all of this out in his perfect time!

I hope to visit him tomorrow so I will try to take some new pics and post them here. He is starting to walk and is getting close to what must be his 1st birthday!

Becky