SOOOOO thankful for our agency

There are so many different adoption agencies out there. How do you even begin to pick one? We are so grateful for our wonderful and amazing agency All God's Childrens International. (AGCI) Sure it made things a little crazier with our home study since they are based in Oregon, but it has been so worth it. What a blessing!!! It seems the wait might be a bit longer with AGCI, but they certainly have their ducks in a row. When dealing with all the things they deal with, it is so important to have the i's dotted and the t's crossed. I am a member of a group on Facebook of people from our agency. I had to share one of the recent discussions held.

"Thankful for our agency. They must be doing things right...I have some friends with other agencies and they are seeing LONG wait times for court and embassy both. Really really long. We are blessed!!!"

"They DO do things right! When we were there for our embassy appointment the lady we interviewed with was shocked when we told her our court date and then asked what agency. When we said AGCI she nodded and said ohhh yes, they have it together. Also while we were there we met a family at the airport, they asked us how long our court to embassy was, when we said 4 weeks they said they had never heard of less than 3 months for their agency."

"A family in our church with *** got their referral in early May I think and is still waiting on a court date. She was told not to expect one until court reopens. I wonder what other agencies are not doing that AGCI is? I'm am so thankful things seem to be going so well with AGCI and that we chose them."

"Praise God! This is such exciting news. So excited for what He is doing through AGCI and Ethiopia!"

"I think a lot of it has to do with how well they get to know each child and their case. When children aren't in a transition home and the people fighting for them hardly know them I think it makes a huge difference. ***** and the staff KNOW these children, even when they are working hard, running all over Addis they take the time to go outside and play with them and love on them. I think when you learn a child like that it makes you want to fight harder for them."

"I have a friend with another agency who got their referral in January, and after several court dates, their MOWA letter JUST arrived about 2 weeks ago. Now their agency told them it could be TWELVE WEEKS before their embassy appointment. I was appalled!" (Currently it is about 3 months from time of referral until the first trip which is court and then another month until the second trip which is the embassy appointment)

What comfort it gives us to know that we truly are using THE BEST agency out there! They can so much about those kids. I've heard time and time again how wonderful the special mothers are in the orphanage. We are so blessed to have our child at an orphanage that is NOT average! Praising God that He guided us to picking the right agency. Yet again, I stand back and say "Wow!" :)