Envoy Group | africa sojournA meeting place for the support team of Brian and Jami Staples

Thanks to so many of you who have been praying and sending notes these past several hours. It’s been a rough day but I think Brian and I can both say we are feeling the peace from your prayers. It’s possible it’s just shock, but we’ll welcome that too for now. I know many of [...]

“Better to have loved & lost,” say you“than to never love at all”.“You only learn to really fly,once you learn to fall.” Did you see the face of the one you loveddid you hold them in your heart?Did you imagine just one dayand know it a work of art? Did you suffer to receive themand [...]

They’re gone – we lost the boys.

The only news we got today was that our facilitator wants to make a few more calls before he comments. Hmmmm…how do you see the glass? If you are an optimist, you’re thinking “he just wants to be 100% sure before he tells us the good news”. For those of you more inclined to think [...]

We are still waiting. Our advocate in Russia is en route back to the U.S. so he has been unreachable. We don’t know what he managed to accomplish while there earlier in the day (if anything) but hopefully tomorrow we’ll get more information (assuming jet lag doesn’t keep him out of commission).We are so grateful [...]

If you came here looking for pictures and celebration, you’ll only find half. It appears it’s too early to post pictures, but we will celebrate nonetheless. A little over a week ago we received a referral for twin boys from Russia. Over the weekend we experienced a snag and although they “confirmed” with us yesterday [...]