A long overdue post!

So many precious people have asked about our journey and so many of you have joined us in prayer and even given financially. We are so thankful for each of you and Even though I fail terribly at updating you all, I do want to share the process with you!

Last week we received 1800 Approval, which is basically the US government saying yes he's ours and yes he will be a US citizen when he's officially adopted! Praises!! We are now on the tail end of the waiting game. Few more steps (including visa applications  - hurry home home from Haiti Trey  so I can mail off our passports! 😂) then we wait for travel approval and appointment dates! Getting so real.

Few specific prayer requests:

1) that we receive TA quickly! We want him home now! :)

2) for Jones and Anna Joy. Their worlds are going to be turned upside down. They are excited, but the magnitude of it all is so unknown.  And also for them (and for my family who will be caring for them) while we are in China.

3) I don't think I've shared this with too many, but Will is not speaking. He turned 4 in November. The cause is unknown, but his creator is so known. We know that we serve a God who is powerful and more than able. We are claiming a miracle! BUT if he never speaks, we know that God's strength through us is stronger than any disability or hurdle. Pray that we are able to get him in the correct school, in appropriate therapies and seeing the  doctors that he needs. As my sweet pastor and friend says - do not underestimate power of love! We are prayerfully optimistic that Will just needs intervention and a loving family to learn to speak. Join me in praying that as well?

4) for Trey's seminary professors to be gracious. He really needs to graduate from this 4 year seminary thing in May. Ha! Traveling to China for two weeks in the middle of his final semester will require gracious professors and lots of prayer.

5) For all of our hearts as we prepare to become a family of 5. We are praying for bonding and attachment to happen for us all quickly, while also being honest with ourselves of the possible reality.

6) For Will.  Adoption is the result of loss, and Will will experience yet another form of loss when we adopt him. He is currently in a foster home where he is attached to his caregiver as well as his foster brother. We will be taking him from the only country and language he knows. I know joy comes in the morning, but that heartbreaking loss is not lost on me.

I am currently loving this song. In my mind this weekend, I started singing "I'm no longer a slave to fear, Will is a child of God."  That one line brings so much peace to me. I know that God created Will and there is such purpose in his life - what do I have to fear?

Here is the link. I love it.
https://youtu.be/f8TkUMJtK5k


Thanks, friends! We are so overjoyed.