The latest news on our case.

The latest news on our case is that the Central Authority offices are now up and running in Guatemala. This is a new agency that was put in place by the Government in Guatemala as part of their Hague Treaty compliance. With this new agency all adoption cases must be registered with them. We found out that on Friday the Central Authority released the necessary paperwork for the registration. This paperwork is 4 pages long and also requires a picture of Madison, her handprints and footprints. The Central Authority will begin accepting the completed paperwork on Monday. We are hoping that our attorney has picked up the paperwork and has spent the weekend getting the necessary information to complete it all. We know that he has several cases that he is working on so we can only imagine he and his assistant have been very busy this weekend. Once the paperwork is submitted to the Central Authority, they will look it over and must approve it before the case can be re-submitted back into PGN. Once again as a reminder PGN is the Guatemalan Government Agency that approves all adoptions. We must have their approval before our adoption can be finalized. We are praying for fast approvals from both agencies. Hopefully no later than Tuesday we will have some information as to whether our case was submitted to the Central Authority or not.
We also found out that Thursday Madison was evidently taken to another Foster Home. We were shocked to find out that this has happened and quickly began trying to find out the reason. We did find out that the reason was not because of the care she was receiving. We both were very comfortable with the care she was receiving from the foster family and felt that they cared for her like she was their own. Our agency assured us that she is ok and with another family who will care for her the same way. At this time all we can do is go on trust and just believe what they say about her being in good hands. We also believe that God would not put her in a situation that was going to harm her in anyway. When we started the adoption process we knew that we would have to have some level of trust for the process and all those involved but I can honestly tell you that we never imagined the amount of trust we would need. We did a lot of praying before starting the process and even more during. With all of the recent news about the negativity of Guatemalan adoptions it is easy to get worried, upset, nervous, etc, but we both have to keep going back to prayer and the peaceful feeling we had when we first decided to accept the referral for Madison. It is extremely difficult to know that the future of our family is in the hands of another country but we remind ourselves that yes Guatemala is another country but God is universal and he is always in control.
Please continue to keep us and the adoption in your prayers. We also would like to ask everyone to keep Madison in your prayers while she is adjusting to being in a new foster home.