The Waiting Game

After 7 weeks of collecting documents and waiting on the completion of our Home Study, we are finally ready to send our USCIS Immigration application!! This process has had so many stresses and blessings. When we are weak, God is strong.

Update on what steps are next:

USCIS Application - 35-45 days to wait for approval letter.

While waiting for the approval letter we can get all our documents for the dossier authenticated. 

Once we get USCIS approval we can send that letter off for authentication and then send our Dossier to China! Once the Dossier is in China we have a 4-6 months wait for all the approvals. 

During this time we are fund raising for the $6,000 required donation to the orphanage, and our travel funds which will range from 10,000 - 16,000. We are praying that all 4 of us will be able to travel. 

Please continue to pray for Joy. She will not know a family is rushing to her for many more months. Pray that she will not be discouraged as she sees so many of the little ones in the orphanage be adopted and taken away. As she is getting older she may be resigned to aging out. We pray for her to have hope, that she will have a forever family to call her own. We are gathering items to make a care package that we hope to send as soon as we are allowed. It is so hard to wait, and yet, all is in God's timing.

Fund Raiser:

Origami Owl Fund Raiser to help raise the needed funds for the orphanage donation and travel costs: Origami Owl Custom Jewelry is truly one of a kind and a fantastic way to tell your story with lockets and charms!! Go to jharrison.origamiowl.com to order directly from my site and put JoleneHarrison199395 in the jewelry bar code box so it counts toward our fund raiser! Mother's day is coming up! Shop now just for her!! FOR EVERY $120+ ORDER I WILL SEND YOU A FREE TAG "FAMILY"! Help us in our Adoption Journey!
NEW spring items are here!! Check out the website for brand new charms, lockets and earrings!!

 

 

Upcoming Fund Raiser:
Custom T-shirts! Bondfire funds is a web site set up to create custom T-shirts for all types of fund raisers. Portions of the cost are sent directly to our Agency to help with adoption costs. Wear your shirt to raise awareness for adoption and to be reminded of the life you helped bring home! We will need to sell 50 shirts minimum for the order to be made. So be ready when we design our t-shirt and let you know when they are available!! Possible design idea:

God has been so good to us! I am so thankful for all the support you have been in prayer and encouragement and funds! We are awed by this whole process. Money has been available to us just when we need it for various fees and costs. It is just amazing to experience! Almost like the manna that was provided for the Israelites in the Old Testament. God gave them what they needed for each day and anything that was left over would spoil. He is providing exactly what we need for each step of this journey! 

Exodus 16:13-21

"That evening quail came and covered the camp, and in the morning there was a layer of dew around the camp. ¹⁴ When the dew was gone, thin flakes like frost on the ground appeared on the desert floor. ¹⁵ When the Israelites saw it, they said to each other, “What is it?” For they did not know what it was.
Moses said to them, “It is the bread the Lord has given you to eat. ¹⁶ This is what the Lord has commanded: ‘Everyone is to gather as much as they need. Take an omer^[a] for each person you have in your tent.’”
¹⁷ The Israelites did as they were told; some gathered much, some little. ¹⁸ And when they measured it by the omer, the one who gathered much did not have too much, and the one who gathered little did not have too little. Everyone had gathered just as much as they needed.
¹⁹ Then Moses said to them, “No one is to keep any of it until morning.”
²⁰ However, some of them paid no attention to Moses; they kept part of it until morning, but it was full of maggots and began to smell. So Moses was angry with them.
²¹ Each morning everyone gathered as much as they needed, and when the sun grew hot, it melted away."