Thank you very much for your prayers.  I will tell you what I now know to the best of my understanding.  In the past, the US ACFI office had only worked through an adoption agency or church groups.  They also had not been doing a large volume of adoptions at a time.  Since Above Rubies started sharing about them, the number of adoptions has greatly increased.  Praise God for that!  Children Concerned was working with ACFI and handling different aspects of the processing of the adoptions from the US side of things, plus travelling frequently to Liberia to help with things there.  In January or February (can't remember now) they pulled out of that arrangement.  Kristi works at the ACFI US office and she tried hard to keep all of the adoptions going on her own.  I believe that she had the best of intentions.  Laws vary by state and it turns out that in the state of South Carolina, where the ACFI office is, you are not allowed to process adoptions unless you are licensed.  Turns out that it wasn't that the ACFI office lost their license, but rather that they never had one.  They had not needed one before.  Kristi checked in to the option of them getting a license, but learned that the process would take about a year.  Her heart is to get the children home to their new families, so she didn't want to put us all on hold for a year while they did that.  Therefore, she chose to transfer all of us to an adoption agency which they have worked with in the past - PLAN.  It is indeed going to be more expensive for us, but about $2500 more rather than $6000 more.  We have NO idea how God is going to provide the additional money, let alone a large chunk of the money we already still needed to come up with.  I am currently looking into adoption grants and low interest adoption loans.  Anyway, back to the situation, all families in process will need to apply to PLAN and then start working through them.  One scary caveat is that PLAN states that they do not guarantee that they will approve a family to adopt the children that they have been previously approved to adopt.  I cannot even imagine how it would rip my heart apart to know that they deemed us the wrong family for Sarah, Samuel, or Stephen.  I already think of those 3 as much mine as though they had been born of my body.  Please continue your prayers for our adoption and all of us in process!

Love, Dawn