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our journey across the miles to our Rwandan son
Video journey of our miles to Myles, by Uncle Paul
our referral picture
Meaning of Myles Mugisha
Myles (name given by us)
-Respect to a man who impacted our lives eternally, Miles Strodel
-The literal miles our Myles was brought to come home
-Hebrew meaning: “Gift from God”
Mugisha (name given by the sisters at the orphanage)
In Kinyarwanda the meaning is “Blessing”
You saw me before I was born.
Every day of my life was recorded in your book.
Every moment was laid out
before a single day had passed.
-Psalm 139:16
Every day of my life was recorded in your book.
Every moment was laid out
before a single day had passed.
-Psalm 139:16
Mylestones
-5/13/09 FAMILY DAY! We are together at last!
-5/12/09 Leave Ethiopia for Dulles
-5/10/09 to Ethiopia for Visa
-5/2/09 Meet Myles for the first time!
-5/1/09 Peter and Laurel fly to Rwanda
-4/20/09 COURT DATE! Myles Mugisha Greer is our son!!!!
-4/13/09 Get our Rwandan court date scheduled for Monday, April 20!
-3/26/09 REFERRAL!!!
-2/17/09 Receive e-mail from the Ministry of Gender and Family Promotion of our APPROVAL to adopt!
-11/24/08 Our file arrives in Rwanda and goes directly to the Prime Minister’s Office!
-11/20/08 Gladney sends dossier to Rwanda!
-11/13/08 Corrections made and dossier sent to Gladney
-10/28/08 Authenticated dossier arrived at Gladney with slight errors
-10/06/08 Rwandan Embassy Authenticating our dossier
-9/29/08 FedEx our dossier to Gladney!
-9/26/08 CIS approval!!! 5 month wait L
-6/11/08 CIS receives our homestudy
-6/11/08 FBI sends clearances
-6/05/08 Certificate of Gladney Approval!
-5/29/08 Get fingerprinted for CIS
-5/30/08 FBI prints FedExed
-5/01/08 CIS confirms receipt of application for I-600A
-4/28/08 Homestudy
-4/18/08 FedExed I-600A to CIS
-3/26/08 Stage 2 & 3 of Paperwork sent to Gladney
-3/04/08 Child Abuse sent, returned to us 3/15/08
-3/03/08 Initial Application Form(Stage 1)
-1/29/08 Adoption Information Sheet sent to get information about the brand new Rwandan program with Gladney Center for Adoption!
4 comments:
How exciting! It is so encouraging to see that your process is moving along so well. I will keep praying for it to keep moving!!! Can't wait for you to hold that sweet boy!
p.s. How did you get the music link thingy to play on your site???
Yay!!
My heart celebrates with you every time there's a new post and another "mylestone" reached. There are several new-babies-to-come that Josiah and I pray for each evening, and Myles is on the list. Love you!
So exctiting! Please keep us posted! We are praying!
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