We are on day 55 of our LOA wait. Letters of Approval have been processed and mailed around the 65-85 day marks for some families this summer. With the huge Storm that has just gone over Guangzhou this past week, there may be a further delay! Please pray for the people in Southern China who are experiencing heavy rain, wind and land slides. Guanxi Province took a direct hit from this storm.
While we wait we have been pretty busy with summer projects. Our A/C is finally fixed! Praising God that this summer hasn't been hotter! I am thankful for Joel's resourcefulness in getting the parts and the people needed to put it all together!
We also received our first Grant Approval!! Show Hope awarded us a grant for 3,000 dollars!! This will help with in country costs, visa and customs fees! We are sooo Thankful!!!
We are continually thankful for friends and family who have donated funds for our travel costs and who are lifting us up in prayer! We have some big cost items coming up this Fall and hope to be fully funded by October!! We have in the works a Dinner and Silent Auction! We can't wait to share our story and more about our daughter with friends and family!!
This journey has been so long and we know we still have so much to do to prepare. We know once Joy is home there will be a lot of adjusting! We are continuing to research, learn and seek medical advice and therapy options for the road ahead. It is so hard when it is an older child. She will be leaving everything she knows and I just pray for her heart. She may not know what adoption and being in family means. Praying that we can meet her where she needs us and show her she is loved from the first moment!
Thank you for praying! We covet your prayers!
Saturday, July 19, 2014
Sunday, July 6, 2014
Artwork for Adoption
My daughter is an avid artist and loves to draw. She came to me with the idea that she wanted to sell prints of some of her favorite drawings and use the funds to help us with travel costs. She and our son will be coming with us when we go to China so it is extra cost for them, but they are brain storming ways to raise the needed air fare. We are blessed with such wonderful kids! :)
So here are the drawings she is selling prints of:
1 2 3
The one in the middle was created on her digital drawing pad. The other two are pencil. All are printed on high quality photo paper.
Size cost shipping/packaging (if we need to ship it)
4 x 6 $5 $2
8 1/2 x 11 $10 $3
13 x 19 $20 $5
Payment can be made through Paypal - Let us know what picture you would like (1, 2, and/or 3) and what sizes.
Puzzle pieces are also still available to sponsor. Click here to see previous post for details on our fund raisers.
Thank you for continued prayers and support! We hope to hear about our Letter of Approval from China by the end of July. We are taking each day one at a time. It is so hard to plan when the future is still so unknown!
Please be praying for our family. There is definitely some spiritual warfare going on and I am praying that we will continue to just TRUST that all things are being filtered through Christ. Our home is just stuff. Our possessions are just things. Praying that the many "comforts" that are breaking down will be fixed when they can be and not missed too greatly while we wait! We don't know where the $18,000 will appear from, but we serve a God who has all things worked out already. We are praying for the empty jars to be filled in God's timing and not our own. This is a huge test for me, as I am the thinker/ planner and I trouble shoot everything! It is so hard to plan the unknown, so I have to wait.
I pray for our daughter in China, that she is not fearing the unknown. That she will have peace in her heart and already a softening to God. We hope to contact her soon and start to get to know her.
We are praying that we continue in his will day by day.
So here are the drawings she is selling prints of:
The one in the middle was created on her digital drawing pad. The other two are pencil. All are printed on high quality photo paper.
Size cost shipping/packaging (if we need to ship it)
4 x 6 $5 $2
8 1/2 x 11 $10 $3
13 x 19 $20 $5
Payment can be made through Paypal - Let us know what picture you would like (1, 2, and/or 3) and what sizes.
Puzzle pieces are also still available to sponsor. Click here to see previous post for details on our fund raisers.
Thank you for continued prayers and support! We hope to hear about our Letter of Approval from China by the end of July. We are taking each day one at a time. It is so hard to plan when the future is still so unknown!
Please be praying for our family. There is definitely some spiritual warfare going on and I am praying that we will continue to just TRUST that all things are being filtered through Christ. Our home is just stuff. Our possessions are just things. Praying that the many "comforts" that are breaking down will be fixed when they can be and not missed too greatly while we wait! We don't know where the $18,000 will appear from, but we serve a God who has all things worked out already. We are praying for the empty jars to be filled in God's timing and not our own. This is a huge test for me, as I am the thinker/ planner and I trouble shoot everything! It is so hard to plan the unknown, so I have to wait.
I pray for our daughter in China, that she is not fearing the unknown. That she will have peace in her heart and already a softening to God. We hope to contact her soon and start to get to know her.
James 4: 13-16
13 Now listen, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.” 14 Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. 15 Instead, you ought to say, “If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or that.”
We are praying that we continue in his will day by day.
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