GLA Links

Now that our dossier is in Haiti (actually before, but now I have time to post about it), here are some websites we’re keeping an eye on, in case you want to follow along with what's going on a the orphanage as well.

GLA's main website is http://www.glahaiti.org/. Lots of information can be found here regarding their ministry - although the most up-to-date information is usually on their blogs.

Their blogs can be linked from http://www.glahaiti.org/, or found directly by typing in http://godslittlestangelsinhaiti.org/. This is a great source for more recent information about what’s going on at the orphanage. Tom Vanderwell’s blog is the main page of this website. He is the Manager of Partner Relations for GLA, has two children he and his wife adopted from GLA, and is based in Michigan.

Dixie’s blog is the link named “And Live Goes On”. Dixie and her husband John started GLA.

Three volunteers’ blogs are also linked here: Holli, Susan, and Molly. Holli’s is the “Tattle Tales from GLA” link at the top of the page, and Molly’s is the “Kidzkorner” link at the top of the page. Susan’s is linked on the right sidebar, a little ways down under the “Blogroll” section – although Tom usually re-posts Susan's posts on the main page.

Adoption news from the orphanage can be found infrequently on both websites, at:
http://www.glahaiti.org/adoption_news
or
http://godslittlestangelsinhaiti.org/so-you-want-to-adopt/, and sometimes Dixie posts adoption-related information on her blog. Once we’re in process, we’ll get specific updates on the progress of our adoption paperwork from our agency, and we be updating here as we know things.

I apparently hadn't checked the Adoption News page on GLA's main website in at least a week, when a friend emailed me today to ask if we were expecting our referral, because of Dixie's post there. Wow, that was exciting to read, since our dossier has been there almost a month! Could it be that the 2-6 months for a referral that our agency told us to expect may be reduced to one month??? Oh, I'm getting ahead of myself. I am still very hopeful that this will be a much faster adoption than Elijah & Josephine's, but even so, God is going to teach me patience again through this process. Praying his grace...