What a Week!!!

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This week 4 families received referrals. Congratulations to the Gibson Family (3 1/2month old girl), the Ducummon Family (6 week old girl), The Cox Family (baby boy), and the Ord Family (2 year old boy).
There are four families in Ethiopia this week picking up their little ones. You can follow along with two of the families blogs, the Harbaughs and the Coens. Congratulations to these families. Please keep them in your prayers.
We hear that their are to be more referrals early in the week.

Today is Easter in Ethiopia!!! Happy Easter.

Comments

Anonymous said…
Glad you guys all got home ok.
You're all in my daily prayers at the Basilica.

Jeff
April 28, 2008 at 11:13 AM
the Steiger's said…
Hey
I will give you a call later about getting together.
Lenka
May 1, 2008 at 9:15 AM
tisha said…
Thank you for the congrats and thanks for visiting our blog! :)
Tisha
May 3, 2008 at 7:07 PM
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