What does this mean, you ask? Let me try to explain.
First of all, note that Thailand is 11 hours ahead of Eastern Standard Time, so when it is Tuesday night in Virginia, it is Wednesday morning in Thailand.
Every other Wednesday morning in Thailand the Thai Adoption Board meets. The Thai Adoption Board is who we are waiting on to officially approve our children being matched with us. Once they officially approve our match, called First Approval, we will be two-three months away from traveling to bring our children home.
The Thai Adoption Board has a lot of things to accomplish at these meetings, one of which is to grant First Approvals. There are many families who have been matched with children who are waiting on First Approval. A year ago, most families got First Approval about six months after they were matched. Now, it seems to be taking a year or more for families to get First Approval. It has been eight months since we were matched with our children and began waiting on First Approval. Eight. Long. Months.
There is not much we can do while we wait for First Approval, so we have decided that every other week, when the Board meets, we are going to eat Thai food for dinner (Yum!) and pray for the Board. We pray for them other times too (and eat Thai food other times as well!), but Tuesday nights we make sure to spend extra time in prayer for this group of Board Members.
Tonight we ate Khow Soi, a Chicken Curry Soup with Thai Egg noodles, for dinner. We are praying that today in Thailand, the Thai Adoption Board will grant many First Approvals, that God would give them great speed as they go through files, that they would sense an urgency to get children with their families, and that they would even decide to have an extra meeting or two in the months to come.
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| Khow Soi (Pronounced-"Cow Soy") |
Praying with you and for you all! Thai Tuesday, I like it! :)
ReplyDeleteI love this! Thank you for this! I love a good ol fashion prayer meeting across the states! We will be praying for you and with you and for all the families that are waiting on First approval! I may take your idea and advertise it on our blog! We will take up this Thai Tuesday and pray! Lets bring our kids home!
ReplyDeleteWhat a GREAT idea! I'll remember this and pray on Tuesdays along with you! I love the thought of focused prayer on specific days for specific things!
ReplyDeleteI love this! Our wait was just at a year for 1st approval and 3 more months to travel. There are so many waiting right now. I love the idea of praying for them because no one knows better how it feels than someone who has been there.
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