Some more news...

On Friday we moved Solomon into the new Thread of Life sew and craft shop!!!!!!!! It was such sweet relief when we drove away from that wretched building with the last of our things, breathing huge thanks to God for the landlord not showing up and the fact that we NEVER have to go to that place again! It felt a bit miraculous & indeed it is.

Morgan wrote these updates, so I thought I would mooch from him and share (sorry no pics!):

First of all is the story of Jordan and Jackson. Jordan and Jackson are brothers and they are two babies that have lived at the kids' house for a little over a year now. They were completely abandoned and we didn't have any idea who their parents were. But over the summer, there was a woman who became interested in adopting them. So Wilfred, the director of the kids' home, started asking around again seeing if he could figure anything out. By some coincidence, he happened to come across their uncle. The uncle said that he had no idea what happened to the mother but thought that the father was working in some distant village somewhere. But then, about a week later, the father got in touch with Wilfred through the uncle. As it turns out, he had gone to Sudan to try to find some work. When he went North, he lost his phone with all his contacts in it and couldn't call his wife. There ended up not being any work in Sudan and he couldn't scrape enough money to get back home. So do to some rather unfortunate circumstances, he ended up being stuck in SUdan for almost two years. When he finally came back, he immediately started asking friends and relatives where his family was. That's how the uncle got him in contact with Wilfred and he found Jordan and Jackson, but he was still trying to find what happened to his wife.
A week or so after the father got in touch with Wilfred, he found his wife. It turns out she had gotten sick and was in the hospital for a little bit and had left Jordan and Jackson with a family friend that was living near them. The friend though, for some reason or another, took Jordan and Jackson and gave them to the police saying that they were abandoned and thats how they came to Wilfred. The mother new that they were with Wilfred and were staying in the kids' home all along, but she was scared that if she went and tried to get them back then she would get into trouble for abandoning them in the first place and so she just left them there.
But now Jordan and Jackson are both living with their parents again. Mercy Ministries and CLD are still keeping tabs on them and helping the father and mother support them, but it's really great that they are bak home with their parents now.
It's so cool to see stuff like this, especially when we can look back and see how this might not have happened if our friend hadn't been interested in adopting them this summer. If they hadn't started looking into the family again, they might not have found the uncle, and, in turn, the father. It's so cool to see how God knows the things that need to be done and can use us to make those things happen.

Love this story - miss the boys, but so thankful they are with their family!!!