December 30, 2009

FedEx has our "package"

YAY! After 10 months in the making, FedEx is currently traveling with our "package" (Dossier) to Bethany's corporate office in MI. There it will be translated to Chinese and then sent to China! A perfect ending to our year of preperation. We are blessed by many answered prayers and rejoice that the Lord has opened doors to allow this to happen. There have been many joyful tears over this past month as each hurdle was jumped over with ease! Our hearts have been overwhelmed by joy and gratitude again and again, as we wrote very large checks to accomplish this. Thank you again to so many generous friends and family that have joined us in prayer and financial support. There is no way we could ever thank you all enough! Please know that with each dollar spent, we were ever mindful of all of you!!!!! We will update again when China has our dossier... translation process takes about a month. Please pray all continues to go smoothly and that we'll have a "log-in" date real soon. Once we have that date, our wait begins. We are also praying that God sees fit to bring her to us sooner than the guesstimated 3 year wait. However, we want His will to be done and if it takes that long, we are at total peace with that. Happy New Year everyone!

December 21, 2009

IMMIGRATION APPROVAL.... CHECK!!!!!!!!

WOOOO HOOOOO.... we just received our I-800 Immigration approval today. Our social worker is reviewing dossier currently. If all goes well, we hope to have it state sealed and authenticated on Monday. From that point, we make 4 copies and send it off to MI (Bethany's corp. office). That will be the final step for us!!!! So, PRAISE THE LORD, we are indeed getting our dossier turned in this month!!!!!!! We'll keep you posted, and believe us, you'll know when that official documentation leaves our hands! We are over-joyed. What a perfect Christmas gift from the Lord to have received immigration approval this week... that was our missing link and the one remaining peice to the puzzle that we had no control over. It is awesome to see how God brought it all to pass! :-)