Ethiopia First Referral!
June 19, 2007
Children’s Hope first referral
in Ethiopia will certainly do
great work in the hearts of
parents Stacie and Kevin as they
travel to meet their adoptive
son and bring him home to
Missouri.
When
they applied in January, the
couple waited patiently for
Children’s Hope to become
licensed in country. Once
licensed, the family received
their referral for their
beautiful healthy boy just one
month after submitting their
dossier. Now this pioneer family
is set to travel in
approximately two months to
Addis Ababa’s Hope for Abandoned
Children and Orphan Care
Association, where the
three-month-old infant will
first be united with his family.
Children's Hope looks forward to
sharing pictures of this happy
referral day when the adoption
is finalized by the courts of
Ethiopia prior to the family's
travel. A big congratulations to
the happy couple!
Referral Day Brings Joy to 17 China
Families Nationwide
June 6, 2007
After a 19 month wait for
their Chinese adoption, Jeff
and Debby Schroeder of
suburban St. Louis, see
photos of their new baby
girl for the first time.
They will officially adopt
healthy, 10-month-old Ellie
when they travel in early
August.
The
Schroeders were part of a group
of 17 Children’s Hope families,
from across the United States,
who received their referrals
from China today, making June 6
one of the best days of their
entire adoption process. These
referrals are for 16 girls and
one boy all of whom will soon be
home with their new family.
These matched children are from
Chongqing City and the Guangdong
province in China and range in
age from 7 months to just over
one year. The families will
travel to meet their children
and finalize their Chinese
adoptions in about 8 weeks.
Congratulations from Children’s
Hope to these families today,
and all our China families who
have moved up in line!
ST. LOUIS - Barbara
Buck from Illinois
introduces her new daughter,
13-month-old Ella, to family
and friends who had traveled
to Lambert Airport for the
homecoming. Barbara and her
husband Jordon were part of
the 36 Children’s Hope
families who flew home
yesterday after finalizing
their adoption from China.
Little Ella was adopted from
Jiangxi Province.
Mother
and Child Adopted from Vietnam
May 15, 2007
Tami
Herman smiles broadly while watching her new daughter
passed from aunt to uncle to grandparent on arrival home
from their adoption trip to Vietnam, May 15. Little
6-month-old Olivia, receives kisses and hugs while
traveling through the arms of her new family. Tami and
her husband Jason finalized Olivia’s adoption from Kien
Giang Province almost 33 years after Tami was escorted
from Vietnam to the same St. Louis airport to be adopted
by her Missouri parents. Now she has the opportunity to
experience the joy of adoption herself.
“When it came time for me to
adopt, it was a natural to adopt from Vietnam,” Tami
said.
The Hermans were one of the
seven Children’s Hope families returning from Vietnam
this week.
May Day Brings China
"Flowers" to Sixteen Families
May
1, 2007
 
Perry and Jennifer
Geistler of Manchester,
Mo., along with their
social worker/adoption
coordinator Rebecca
Davis, show their daughter
Adeline her new sister,
Amy. Amy is one of 15
referrals received by
Children's Hope families
today. The 7-month-old
girl will be waiting to
join her forever family
in the Jiangxi Province,
China.
Children's Hope called fifteen
China families across the nation
to announce their referrals
today! Their beautiful children
are all girls from the Jiangxi
province and range in age from 7
to 11 months. These referrals
were for the 10/27/05 through
11/1/05 log in dates. The families waited
18 months from log in date to
referral. We expect each family
to travel in about 8 weeks to
complete their Chinese adoption.
Congratulations to these
families and all our China
families who have moved up in
line!
China
Referral
April
9, 2007
 
James and Kris Huang of
St. Louis, show their daughter Katie, 3 ½, the area in
Shandong Province where they will travel to adopt her
new brother. The Huang’s expedited referral for their
14-month-old son was the only referral for adoption from
China received by Children’s Hope so far in April.
Adoptions from Ethiopia can now
Begin
April 5, 2007
Sharon
Turner, Director for Children’s Hope
adoptions from Ethiopia,
receives a bouquet of flowers from a
family ecstatic about the news that
Children’s Hope received a license
to start adoptions from Ethiopia.
Today the good news finally
arrived about Children’s Hope’s
new program for adoptions from
Ethiopia. With the signature of
the Ethiopian Ministry of
Justice, Children’s Hope
finalized the official
accreditation process as an
international adoption and
humanitarian aid agency in
Ethiopia. Children’s Hope is
only the seventh U.S. adoption
agency to be licensed in the
African country.
Sharon Turner, Children’s Hope
Ethiopia Adoption Director, says
the over 30 families on her
waiting list were excited to
hear that their adoption process
can now move forward.Turner says
the adoption process will move
quickly for the first several
families now that Children’s
Hope is officially licensed.
With
nearly 4 million orphans in
Ethiopia, the need is great.
Ethiopia placed 731 orphans in
U.S. homes in 2006 that is up
from the 289 adoptions in 2004.
A Stork Delivers for Eighteen
China Families
March 5, 2007
Jordan and Barb Buck with
children Jackson, 3, Claire, 9,
and Andrew, 13, rejoice in their
new family member on one of the
biggest days in their adoption,
referral day! This St. Jacob, IL
family will become a family of
six when they travel to China’s
Jiangxi Province to unite with
this 10-month-old girl.
Children’s Hope International’s
China program received a total
of 18 referrals for families
across the nation today, three
of those families from the St.
Louis area. All of these
families will travel in about
eight weeks to finalize their
adoptions after waiting sixteen
and a half months for this
special day.
A New Valentine!
February 14, 2007
ST.
LOUIS – Valentine’s Day was more than cards
and chocolates for Jennifer and Dan Calvert of
St. Louis this year! The couple was thrilled to
share the holiday with a third wheel, their
Vietnam referral! Above, Jennifer laughs as she
views her referral’s first pictures at
Children’s Hope’s home office.
On Valentine’s Day
yesterday, one couple in St. Louis prepared to
share their love with just one more this holiday
as they received their referral! The referral
was for a Vietnam adoption of a 6-month-old girl
from the Ho Chi Minh Province. Vietnam has had
six referrals so far this month from three
different orphanages: Tam Binh1, Picasso in HCMC,
and Kien Giang. The five earlier referrals were
for three boys and two girls ranging in age from
six weeks to two years old.
China Adoption: A Big Day for Fifteen Families
February 1, 2007
ST.
LOUIS – Cristin Lyons-Wade of Wentzville
smiles big as her social worker shares a
gift—pictures of her new daughter! The little
girl, who will turn 8-months-old tomorrow, will
join her four new siblings after her parents
travel to finalize her Chinese adoption. Fifteen
Children’s Hope families across the nation
received their referral from China today. One
family was introduced to their twins and another
family to their infant son.
Today was the day that fifteen families have
long been waiting for—referral day for China
adoptions! “We want to thank the CCAA for
blessing us with twins!” says Ann Tollefson,
program director. Children’s Hope has united
four families in the last four months with twin
girls. Today we look forward to uniting our
fifth! The families celebrating today have been
waiting fifteen months since they submitted
their paperwork to China. They soon will be
traveling to finalize their adoptions in about
eight weeks. |
