Please pray...

Hello All, I have put off writing b/c I have been a little bit discouraged. Although we now have our Embassy Appointments, which are March 15 and March 19 (not 17), our son's passport is not in yet. We are unsure whose error this is since we are getting mixed answers. His passport should have been in weeks ago. Hopefully, this situation will be resolved before our Embassy dates. If not, the Embassy will have to reschedule our appointments since the passport is required, possibly costing us several more weeks of time.
I ask you to please pray with us about this. Daily if possible. We need your prayers. We thank you for your support. God has blessed us with many wonderful friends and family!

GOD IS SO GOOD!!!

We have our Embassy Dates!!!
March 15th is the file drop off date and March 17th is the Interview date! Our In-Country Coordinator will go to these for us. And about 3 weeks later, our Visa processing will be done and we will get our travel dates!!! It looks like we will be traveling in April!!! YAY!!!!! Thank you all for joining us on this journey! We will continue to give updates throughout our travel and after we return...God is so good and He is faithful all the time!!! PTL!!!

Come on Passport!!!

We are diligently praying for Isaiah's passport to come in! The Congo passport office is extremely slow and this is the only thing holding us up for making our Embassy Appointment in order to have our Visa's processed... I am reminded of the anticipation of childbirth. In the last month, there is excitement, apprehension, some healthy fears, but most of all, pure love for the child you will soon welcome into your lives. We have hit our 18th month since beginning this process. Yes, I would HATE to be pregnant for 18 months! So, in this respect, adoption is much much harder (I can say this since I did go through 3 pregnancies). And in a similar respect, we have no idea if our son will embrace us, fear us, or reject us. That is where pure trust comes in. God has asked us to adopt our son, so we must trust Him to prepare his heart for us... as we draw closer, we also must think about our journey across thousands of miles to receive our son into our lives. Yes, there will be danger, yes, there will be nerves going crazy, yes, there will be adrenaline rushing, and yes, there will be pure exhaustion! But we would not want it to be any other way! God is preparing the way for His name to be glorified! It should be an event of full-blown emotion! One of His orphans is coming HOME!!!! Hallelujah!!! We will give Him all praise and honor and glory!!! For the great things He has done!!! Join with us in bringing glory to His name!!!

T-shirts

We have found a really cool design for a tshirt that another adoptive family had made. We are trying to find the best prices for printing them. They are really cool. Here is what they look like: