Are you all ready for this????!!!!!!

THEY ARE COMING HOME.....

OUR FAMILY WILL ALL BE TOGETHER ON MY 35th BIRTHDAY! 

6 DAYS FROM NOW!!!!!

We are incredibly excited to welcome our sons home....

Henok Samuel Asefa 
Henok: "Dedicated"
Samuel: "God has heard"...He has and we are coming for you!!!

Abenezer Justus Asefa 
Abenezer: "The Lord is my Helper"
Justus: "justice, righteousness"...And it has come. We are so thankful.

and

Mikias Jedidiah Asefa
Mikias: "Who is like God?"
Jedidiah:"Beloved of God"..we pray you know how loved you are by HIM.

Choosing our children's names have been something very important and special to us. All of our children have Biblical names and each of the boys first names are also Biblical - an amazing thing since we didn't choose them! Their middle names are also biblical and each have significance to us as we have journeyed thus far...
And as is tradition in our family, each of our boys have 2 middle names...Asefa is to honor their heritage and fittingly means "God has increased".

amen.

He has increased our family.

He has increased our love for their birth country.

He has increased our love for HIM.

Please pray for our boys as they will hear tomorrow that we are coming for them. It will be a difficult few days with goodbyes and transitions. Please pray for Riley..for nany reasons, we have decided that he will go on his own to bring them home. Pray for health and that God would guide His steps, actions and words as he travels with them across the Atlantic. And please keep us at home in your prayers. The excitement has culminated and the kids are counting down the days, but I know that the work and transitions are just beginning. It is almost surreal that the time is here....

We thank God for our children, all 7 of them- and can't wait to see what God has in store for each of them as we seek to become a family of nine!!

DETAILS TO COME SOON ABOUT AIRPORT PARTY...let's just say though, that on Wednesday, YOU ARE ALL invited and we are going to celebrate!!!!!

Blessings,
Candra & my amazing and brave husband (i love you so much!) - Riley