I am so thankful that a friend of mine chose to text me when she read online that Friday (yesterday) was a furlough day for government employees in Georgia. As a result, DFCS was also on furlough, Monday is a holiday, and I can now stop holding my breath for the next three days. There is no chance I’ll hear anything more about the girls until next week.

Please keep praying!

Have a great weekend!

~audrey

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My supervisor did indeed call our girls’ case worker yesterday for an update and to give her best efforts at getting them to move the girls to our house immediately. She had to leave a message on his voicemail. At the close of the business day yesterday, she had not yet gotten a call back from the case worker.

Praying for a response today!

I wonder if the agony of waiting has ever actually killed anyone?

As always, I’ll update if/as soon as I hear something!

~Audrey

The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective.

The earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power and produces wonderful results.

The effective prayer of a righteous man can accomplish much.

The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.

The above referenced scripture are different translations of James 5:16b.

I can’t help but think it was the effectual and fervent prayers of my children that brought on this long-awaited breakthrough in our girls’ case. So today, I am asking for your effectual and fervent prayers! As I was walking with my supervisor at 6:30am this morning, she informed me that she would be calling the girls’ case worker today to find out how the staff meeting went yesterday and urge them to move forward with placing them in our home immediately.

I will update as soon as I hear something!

We’ll be heading to the pool to pass the time. :)

I look forward to the days of shopping for these:

How cute are those!?! Just FYI, they are on clearance at Gymboree.com! :)

~audrey

We hadn’t heard anything about our girls in several months and had all but given up. My boys actually began asking about them again just a few weeks ago.

“When are our baby sisters coming?”

I kept telling them we hadn’t heard any more about them and doubted they were coming, but if they really wanted them here, they’d have to pray! They certainly did. Every night for the last few weeks they have been praying for their baby sisters to “please come to our house very soon.”

As I wrote in this mornings’ post, our other three foster children left this afternoon. We had already begun to wonder what God has for us next. What would the next placement be like? Boys, girls, babies, toddlers? Wouldn’t you know, my phone rang this morning around 10:30am. It was our foster agency telling us that DFCS, from the county where our girls are located, called and requested our home study so they could begin the adoption process!! We still have a very long road ahead of us, and I need you to begin praying specifically that the Lord would bring the girls to our house SOON. They are in separate foster homes and desperately need to be together, preferably under OUR roof! :) Want more?

Their names are Jessica (meaning “God Beholds”) and Sarah (meaning “Princess”).

GOD IS SO GOOD!

I’m still in shock, really.

There is a staff meeting at DFCS tomorrow involving our girls’ case. Please pray for favor and that they would all agree it would be in the girls’ best interest to be united in our home as soon as possible.

I will certainly keep you posted!

KEEP PRAYING!!
~audrey