The Layton's Latest Prayer Requests

Here is a picture of the beautiful reunited Congolese children who all 4 lived together with Didier at the orphanage for a number of months before Stuart and Jennifer brought Jamie and Jordan home (seen from left to right below). Josie and Gabe Wilmarth and the twins Brandon and Kara who used to go to church in Congo with their friends on the left now go to the same church with them in California (Grace Bible Fair Oaks) and it is a joy to see how God has weaved these families together.

Here is a quick update to what I shared at the end of our 9/13 blog below on how you can be praying for our family adoption journey, which we should be able to share more about later this week, but for now would appreciate prayer support in relation to the little fella pictured in the 9/14 blog ("Last African Sunset ... for now") who we are pursuing adopting.
- Please pray as Didier meets with the judge and court tomorrow that we can get a court hearing soon and that the judge will accept all our documents and be able to do our judgment by mid-October as we have a narrow window of time and resources to complete the process for reasons too complicated to share here
- Please pray for wisdom as Jaime considers travelling to D.R.C. for a short trip in early October, which will potentially save some money on court costs and help expedite the process
- Please pray for timing of Phil's travel in relation to Didier's schedule and the timing of elections in November and other dynamics in the country beyond what we can share here
-Pray that Phil can return to DRC by mid-October to take our son to the US embassy in the capitol and that all the legal docs done in country would be acceptable to embassy so that he can come home to CA by early November!

God's favor has already been on this process but Thursday and Friday are especially crucial as court fees and appointments are made. We appreciate so much your prayers for God's continued favor on this process.