Looks promising

The conference call with Gladney was an overdue dose of assurance for us. The upper level group from Gladney is leaving for their trip to Taiwan tomorrow to visit with the orphanages and to work out the details of their nearly developed Taiwan program. Gladney's initial plan was to make the trip to Taiwan first and then have the conference call with us but had a change of heart and decided to communicate with us their plans and to fill us in on the transition details. They did not want us to worry another day about what is happening with our adoption...which we are very appreciative of.

The Senior VP of Gladney himself announced that we will not have to pay another dime to continue our adoption through them! Nada! Not through email...not through a letter....we actually heard it from his mouth. Which is way more than I can say about Commonwealth. We were lucky to get an email from them. It will cost Gladney an estimated $100,000 to cover the expenses that Commonwealth was supposed to pay to the orphanages. Gladney sees this as an investment opportunity and with their track record I'm sure it will pay off. And another bonus is that they have been in business for 120 years, starting with domestic adoptions only for the first 100 years and have since added international programs. We are so relieved to receive this news.

Their trip to Taiwan is to work out the operational details with them and to close the deal on their adoption partnership with the orphanages. While they are in Taiwan we (the clients) have to fill out an information release form for Commonwealth in order for Commonwealth to release our files to Gladney. Gladney is not allowed to contact us until they have our files in their hand. Until then it is our responsibility to contact Gladney if we have any questions or concerns. They are expected to return from Taiwan on August 31st and will have a follow up conference call to answer the operational questions. Hopefully they will have our file by then. If they do we will then be assigned a case worker. Oh and another thing we learned about Commonwealth today. Their case workers were contract workers...Gladney's are actual employees of Gladney. That would explain why we had 3 different case workers within a 1 1/2 year time frame.

We are very thankful of the outcome so far. This has been a huge learning experience for us... we have learned so much about how the international adoption process works as well as trusting God when the road to get where we need to be is not what we envisioned. Thank you so much for your thoughts, prayers and support. More to come!

God bless,
Shane and Misty

P.S. I have added the link to Gladney in the Personal Link section if you want to check out their website.