Team Turner Makes 9!

We are preparing to head out this evening at 5:30 pm for nine days in Ethiopia.  Lord willing, we will return next Saturday with the twins accompanying us.  It has been a trying week of last minute document hunting and preparation.  The grace in all of this is that Jay might actually sleep some during the first 14 hour leg of our trip through the night!  Can't believe we are about to board another airplane...

We are anxious and yet striving to find our peace in our Kind Savior, who is a refuge and faithful always.  We would covet your prayers this next week - for uneventful travel, logistics, transition and bonding with the twins, and protection for our girls waiting expectantly at home.  And an extra prayer for energy once we arrive - we have the twins 24/7 beginning Monday.   It has been a while since we've done the infant thing and we are presently feeling like tired parents.  We are heading back to Addis with 3 suitcases this trip,  2 of which contain only baby items for the week.

Part of our journey this next week will be a 6 hour round-trip to visit the first orphanage the twins were placed in.  We also will be having a birth mom interview - hard to know what to expect and even what to ask during this time that promises to carry great emotion.  Please pray for this meeting and travel day as well.

This has been a long journey, and the real journey of parenting these sweet children is just about to begin.
What a privilege to participate in something that is so dear to our God's heart - Adoption. Thank you dear friends for your faithful prayers - we are in this together.

Bringing Samara Beti & Caleb Biniyam Turner Home!

"Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!" (Psa 46:10)