A Successful "China for China": Thank you!!!

THANK YOU to everyone who participated in China for China- The good and gracious Lord who provided all the following: Servers, tea makers, silent auction donors, silent auction bidders and winners, ticket sellers, ticket buyers, prayer warriors, food preparers, set up crew, break down crew, Calvary Chapel church and staff, table setters, ticket and money takers, auction workers, attendees. We could not have done it without you! THANK YOU!!!

May you be blessed in being a part of bringing our children home.

Fingerprints

Been checking the mail everyday for 3 weeks.... Today we received our appointments to go get fingerprinted! One step closer!!! Yipee!!!

China for China

Well...we're doing it....hosting a tea and silent auction. I kind of can't believe it. It's a huge thing that I don't really know how to do. So, you see....God gets all the glory for this!!! He is bringing people alongside us. Wonderful, gracious, kind-hearted people who believe in adoption and trust God to provide. He knew we would need them. And He knew they would help, because they are His. Thank you all so much!!!


Tea and Silent Auction info:


China for China
Date: Sunday, May 1, 2011
Time: 2:30 - 4:00
Where: Calvary Chapel Chattanooga
             3415 S. Broad St.                Chattanooga, TN 37409 
Cost: Per person- minimum donation of $10
         Per table of 8- minimum donation of $80
Silent auction will close at 3:30.

So come and join us and bring a friend or two for tea... and treats... and fellowship.

You can even celebrate Mother's Day a week early and bring your "Mum."


*If you are interested in attending, serving or donating an item or service for the auction please contact us at knoxfam4@gmail.com. We are still in need of items for the auction, ie. art, china, gift baskets of all kinds, electronics, gift certificates, yard work, babysitting... etc. Thank you!!!

PRAYER IS POWERFUL!!!

Thank you all soooooo much for praying for Evan. I have no words only tears of JOY!
Click here for update on "E"

Update on "E"

Just wanted to give you an update on "E".....keep praying!

Click here for update on "E".

Off to USCIS....finally

Finally got a copy of our homestudy and mailed it along with our I-800A to USCIS today. That's adoption talk for....we mailed in our application to Immigration/Homeland Security to be approved to adopt from China. It sure has taken quite a bit longer than expected....amazingly, I've had the patience to go with it. Got to be a God thing! Just trying to trust God's timing in all of this. He's been so gracious to show us His hand at work along the way, and I know He has a plan. Now, we wait for appointments for fingerprinting.

Along this journey, we've learned of so many families adopting. I want to share two of them with you. They've touched my heart so deeply. I hope you will pray for them. I'm not very good at writing and telling stories, so hopefully I can figure out how to post a link to each. God bless!

 Click here for "E"

Click here for "K"

"With man this is impossible,

but not with God;

ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE WITH GOD!"

Mark 10:27

 

A Word from God

The past week or so has been an emotional one.  There has been some disappointment in our process related to two little ones that we were beginning to get attached to.  It's funny how attached you get to someone that you have never met.  We have only seen pictures, most a few years old, and read some medical reports that told us about the heart defects.  It turns out that the children that we thought might be "the ones" for us may not be at all.  Weird that we can be heart broken over feedback on a person that we never met and lives a world away. I know Bethany will have more to add to this but from where I am in this, I watched my wife as she was blessed by a friend with nothing more than a phone number for a doctor.  She had said, "I need a word from God today" and as we walked into church Sunday she was handed this little piece of paper with that name and number on it. This particular doctor is a specialist that travels to China to perform heart surgery on orphans...are you kidding?! Bethany has said several times that she feels very led to doing more for orphans and getting involved in some way, to allow God to use her to serve these kids wherever they are.  During the service Frank showed a video about orphans in Romania and how we can help.  There is a mission trip coming up this summer.  Here is an opportunity to step into God's work, to provide some hope and love to a group of people that truly have nothing. Another touch from God.  Also, we are hoping to host a ladies tea and were trying to figure out how we are going to pull all of that together.  Renting/borrowing tables was an issue and I know it sounds like a small one but Sunday Darren from Calvary sat with us for a minute and let us know that he had just purchased 25 tables for the church.  One more blessing that we didn't see coming, one more hurdle removed, one more Word from God.  It may seem like a small thing but the amount of stress a little practical thing like that can relieve is amazing. 

Lesson; be careful when you ask to hear from God...He might just respond.