Our International House of People: Definate Decisions

Monday, December 10, 2007

Definate Decisions

Today was my 29th birthday for several years in a row (LOL a woman never tells her true age). Anyway, today truly has been a great day. We had met some people several months ago named Tymm and Laura who are adoptiong a baby from Ethiopia (he is beautiful). Well, if any of you remember Keith and I had talked about this program and were thinking about this for baby #2. However, CHI has a policy for their Ethiopian program that requires the youngest child in your home be no younger than 3 years older than the child you are adopting. This knocked us out of the program because we do not want to wait until Lennah is 3 years old just to apply to adopt again. Well, Tymm and Laura told us about their agency and that the requirements may be a little different. SO Keith and I talked over the weekend and we both said that if they did not have the three year wait rule we would definately give Ethiopia a go ahead because financially it is so much less than Vietnam. I know you cannot put a price tag on the life of a child but we definately feel like God has called us there awhile ago and we were too quick to look elsewhere besides CHI. We absolutely love CHI and would love to work with them again so please do not take this as we do not want to use them again but in our current situation they are not the perfect fit. We have our homestudy update on January 2nd so we will officially be applying for angel #2 at the beginning of next month. Oh! we have also made a decision on a name since we are still applying for a little girl and we really think this will fit with our Ethiopian angel we are going with Delylah Aviella. Keep us in your prayers that everything goes smooth with #2. Here is our new blog for Delylah. Again we will still keep everyone updated on Lennah here so please keep reading.

http://delylahaviellapaulsen.blogspot.com/

5 comments:

Christi Crow said...: Yeah!!! I can't wait to see Miss Delylah. I voted on that name by the way. We received the Christmas card today and Leenah is as cute as ever. We are praying for your next adoption and I think you made a wonderful decision to go with Ethiopia. Miss you guys!; December 10, 2007 at 11:21 PM
The Ben Show said...: Wow! Congrats, how exciting. I have to admit, I've been thinking about Ethiopia a lot lately as well. I look forward to following your next journey! Thanks for the adorable Christmas pics.; December 11, 2007 at 12:05 PM
Jessica and Eddie said...: Yeah how exciting---Look forward to following along with your second angel. Good Luck!!!; December 11, 2007 at 1:53 PM
Donna said...: WOW! How exciting to get to see you bring another little one home. You are truly blessed!!; December 11, 2007 at 11:10 PM
Unknown said...: thats just awesome!; December 25, 2007 at 11:50 AM

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History of Ethiopia

Ethiopia is one of the oldest known cradles of civilization known to man. Christianity was brought to the Kingdom of Axum around the 4th century AD and later in the 7th century Islam was introduced. Foreign missionaries were introduced to the region around the 1630's. Because of these unwelcomed guest Ethiopia did not welcome foreign Christians and Europeans into their lands. Its isolationism may have saved the country from 19th century colonialism. In 1936 Italian facists entered the region and forced its emperor into isolation but was later returned when the British and the French defeated the Italians. Civil unrest would lead to the demise of the aging emperor and in 1974 a socialist sort of government was named. The country went through a period of red terror that was funded by the Soviets and Cuba. This lead to the implementation of a communist government being installed in the late 1970's, early 1980's. In 1989 the country went through a period of famine that also lead to a change in governments. Finally, in 1994 the country would declare its independence and later hold free elections.

History of Vietnam

For about two thousand years Vietnam was ruled by China, following this period it would become independent for the next almost thousand years. In the 1800's it would be colonized by the French. The early 20th century would bring about visions of an independent republic. In 1945 Ho Chi Minh declared Vietnam independent and renamed it the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. By 1947 a full-scale war would break out between the French and the Viet Minh (Ho CHi Minh's followers). China also began to aid the Viet Minh at this time due to its own communist revolution. July, 1954 the Geneva Accords would be sign paving the road to France leaving Vietnam; however, it would partition Vietnam into 2 independent states seperated by the 17th parallel. The South was helped by the United States, while the North would be dominated by the Viet Minh. By 1963 the South's government was very unstable. 1965 President Lyndon Johnson would send troops into Vietnam. The North would lead a massive attack in 1968 destroying much of the South. In 1969, Ho Chi Minh died but his forces remained in tact. By the early 1970's many Americans viewed the war as unwinnable and would prove unsuccessful at containing communism. January 1973 the Paris Peace Accords were signed ending the United States role in the war. In 1975 Saigon would fall to the North Vietnamese and in July of 1976 the two parts were reunified into the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. The war was disastrous for the Vietnamese people leaving an estimated 1 million to become boat people, 1 million imprisioned, and more than 100,000 killed. Today, Vietnam still has a communist form of government and although they are a developing nation many people remain extremely poor.

Monday, December 10, 2007

Definate Decisions

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