Our Court Date is This Week!

This week, we believe on Wednesday or Thursday, Kathee and I will be presented at the Ethiopian Courts of MOWA (Ministry of Women's Affairs) to become Gideon Markos' mom and dad. We ask that this week you keep the court case in your prayers.
This past week (or it may have been two weeks ago now), there were 7 families that had court cases. Due to a new Ethiopian law that was enacted over the courts being closed, coupled with the courts not telling the adoption agencies, 3 of those adoptions were NOT approved. The issue deals with children who are abandoned and those who are relinquished. The new law/enactment only effects those children who are relinquished, not those who are abandoned. And we believe Gideon was relinquished (due to his mother and deceased father's names on the referral information). In our conference call last week, we were told that necessary changed will be made for these next set of cases (of which our case will be) so that the cases will be approved. The discouraging thing is that those cases not approved were moved back until November 8, a full month from their court case.
So please be in prayer in all of this. If our case is approved by the court on the 15th or 16th (we will be notified after the court date) we will leave for Djbouti on the 24th, and then back down to Addis by the 2nd of November (although I believe we are planning on being back to Addis on the 31st.
I spose that is it for now. This is a HUGE week for the adoption and beg of your prayers. We ask that you pray for the Lord's will to be done in this. Certainly, we want this to go through, however, we don't know His timing or desires for what is best for us. Pray for Kathee and I to have the faith to endure, to be joyful in whatever outcome of the court, and that we will glorify Christ in the process.
Thanks.

Because He is worthy,
Isaac T