She and Madison's advocacy team met our little guy, took pictures of him for us, and informed us that he is so little and as sweet as he can be!! Oh, we can't wait to see him with our own eyes!!! They told him we are coming for him and it's true, we are!!
In fact, things are progressing really, really quickly! Last week we received our second approval letter from China (LOA), then USCIS approved our I-800 which approves the kids to immigrate to the US. This week the National Visa Center issued our approvals for both kids and we completed all remaining paperwork on the US side. Our package will be dropped off at the US Consulate in Guangzhou, China on Monday and we are hopeful it will be ready for pick up on Tuesday. It will get overnighted to Beijing and delivered to CCCWA on Wednesday. Then we will be waiting for our Travel Approval from the Chinese government!! This TA is the last thing we need to be able to schedule our consulate appointment and gotcha days!!
We are so excited!!! It's almost time!!
If you are currently praying for us, we ask you to pray for the following:
China's system that they process adoptions in has been down since Wednesday for a hardware issue. Please pray that this system is back online when they open again on Monday and that it stays working! Without that system working, we cannot receive our Travel Approval and many other families become delayed as well!!
For clarity in the flights we need to reserve. As you might guess, getting so close to Christmas, we are anxious to book flights as they will continue to rise higher and higher. We have been praying about which flights to take and at what point to book the flights. This isn't an ideal situation to book flights ahead of receiving our approved dates for the adoption, but as flights continue to rise, we may have to, so please pray for wisdom and discernment regarding our travel plans.
Additionally, we ask you to pray for financial provision. We received an amazing grant from Rollstone Foundation this week and we also received a matching grant from Lifesong for Orphans. We really need God to move to get the grant matched quickly. We are also still short by a good amount and have a number of grant applications out that we still haven't heard anything on. We pray we will receive good news on a few of these too to close the remaining gap. With potentially less than 2 weeks til travel, we are expectant. We know that God was faithful last adoption and we know that he will be again!
Lastly, please pray for our children. Pray for the hearts of Kate, Chengbin, & Laila as we bring two new children into our family. Pray for the hearts of our sweet new kiddos as they undergo tremendous change in the coming weeks. Pray for openness in their hearts and spirits to us. That they would have a sense of peace in spite of all the chaos and upheaval happening in their young lives. Please also pray for wisdom, discernment, and peace for Matt & I as we make this family transition and work hard to earn the trust and acceptance of these two sweet babies while continuing to be there for our already home kids.
Thank you all so much for your support, your cheers, your prayers, your good thoughts... we appreciate each and every one of you more than you know. Only a couple more weeks til we go get these babies!!! Woohoo!!
China's system that they process adoptions in has been down since Wednesday for a hardware issue. Please pray that this system is back online when they open again on Monday and that it stays working! Without that system working, we cannot receive our Travel Approval and many other families become delayed as well!!
For clarity in the flights we need to reserve. As you might guess, getting so close to Christmas, we are anxious to book flights as they will continue to rise higher and higher. We have been praying about which flights to take and at what point to book the flights. This isn't an ideal situation to book flights ahead of receiving our approved dates for the adoption, but as flights continue to rise, we may have to, so please pray for wisdom and discernment regarding our travel plans.
Additionally, we ask you to pray for financial provision. We received an amazing grant from Rollstone Foundation this week and we also received a matching grant from Lifesong for Orphans. We really need God to move to get the grant matched quickly. We are also still short by a good amount and have a number of grant applications out that we still haven't heard anything on. We pray we will receive good news on a few of these too to close the remaining gap. With potentially less than 2 weeks til travel, we are expectant. We know that God was faithful last adoption and we know that he will be again!
Lastly, please pray for our children. Pray for the hearts of Kate, Chengbin, & Laila as we bring two new children into our family. Pray for the hearts of our sweet new kiddos as they undergo tremendous change in the coming weeks. Pray for openness in their hearts and spirits to us. That they would have a sense of peace in spite of all the chaos and upheaval happening in their young lives. Please also pray for wisdom, discernment, and peace for Matt & I as we make this family transition and work hard to earn the trust and acceptance of these two sweet babies while continuing to be there for our already home kids.
Thank you all so much for your support, your cheers, your prayers, your good thoughts... we appreciate each and every one of you more than you know. Only a couple more weeks til we go get these babies!!! Woohoo!!
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