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[violachic]

An excerpt of an email I got today from my pastor:

Hello York Center Friends,
Ruth and Mark have been in the process (for many months) of
adopting four year old Estefani from Guatemala. They received a phone call this week telling them to go to Guatemala to welcome their new daughter and bring her home. They were not expecting the call quite so soon. They are very excited and are making plans to fly to Guatemala
Saturday morning and return Tuesday evening.

Please keep Ruth and Mark in your prayers as they travel and meet their new daughter. Please keep Arthur, Arbie, and Gideon in your prayers as they prepare for their new sister. And don't forget the proud grandparents, Mary and Ned.


Estefani was a little girl who was in orphanage in Guatemala with another little girl who was adopted by a family at our church last year, Lidia. I'm not sure what the ailment is, but Estefani suffers from some kind of disorder like hydrocephalus, something that causes the brain to swell. She and Lidia were very good friends in the orphanage, and when Lidia got adopted, she was devastated to leave Estefani behind. Lidia begged her new family to also take Estefani, but they already had two boys as well as Lidia, and just couldn't do it, emotionally or financially. They appealed to families at church when they got back to see if anyone could take her. There were three or four families who seriously considered it, and this is the family who was finally able to do it. Its been a rough, unpredictable time, as international adoptions usually are, and everyone is overjoyed that she is coming home so soon. There's a great deal of adoption in our little congregation- there's at least six families I can think of off the top of my head, and there's probably only between sixty and seventy families in the church- so its nice to know there's a lot of support.

Anyway, this is my happy thing, and I just wanted to share.

Comments

[splagxna.livejournal.com]

hi. how are you? do you want to christmas carol with me and my church a week from sunday? :-)

[violachic.livejournal.com]

If its in the morning or evening, I'd REALLY love to. I have a concert in the afternoon, though. What's the details?

[splagxna.livejournal.com]

afternoon. of course.

[violachic.livejournal.com]

Nuts.

[donia.livejournal.com]

I'm glad to hear you have a happy thing to share. Here's my happy thing that I would like to share. Welcome back to LJ! It's good to see you here again!

[violachic.livejournal.com]

Thanks :-) I'm sorry I missed you at the meetup last week. Hey, I caught your show, I LOVED it! Looks like you really made a genuine impression on your captors.

[donia.livejournal.com]

I didn't go to the meetup because I had to work. Hopefully, by the next one, I'll have a real job that let's me play on Tuesday nights. I'm glad you got to see the show and enjoyed it.

I was a little disappointed that you didn't come to my viewing party, but it was just as well since some people didn't recognize my star quality and insisted on playing pool and talking kinda loud near the end. I missed some of what was said, but I got to see it again last weekend.

Stacy and Clinton said it's rare that their contributors sass them back or do anything except be cowed. They said I kept them on their toes and the sound guy said I totally kicked their ass and often left them speechless. That part was fun!

[violachic.livejournal.com]

There was no way I could make it out that night. Money has been so amazingly tight, and I didn't even have five bucks to put in my gas tank then. But I have heard nothing but rave things from the people who went, plus, didn't you get taken out later for further imbibements? Free alcohol is always a good thing.

[donia.livejournal.com]

I know what you mean about money being tight. I didn't even have enough to get a shot of espresso yesterday! Woe is me! Pity the poor white girl born in the world's richest country. ;) The viewing party itself was a good time, it just was hard to watch the show. I'm glad to hear others who were there enjoyed themselves. I always worry about that when I have parties, which isn't very often, but nonetheless. Yeah, a boy did take me out and booze me up later and that was fun, too. It went a long way toward making forget the negatives.