God is making a way!

I just want to give a shout out for the Lord!  Over Christmas we were given a $2,000 gift to help us bring Anna home!  Oh how blessed we are!  Then a very dear friend of mine calls me to tell me that she also wants to give a gift for Anna and she gave us a check for $1,000.  I have been blown away by God's love and mercy throughout our adoption process.  I was recently contacted by a lady whose daughter gave a donation to Anna in honor of her mother for Christmas.  She said that she is too hard to buy for so her daughter wanted to give her a meaningful gift this year.  I am not sure how her daughter found out about our journey and made the donation, but she blessed the socks off of her own mother and ME!!!  What a precious lady of the Lord she is.  We have conversed back and forth for a few days and she has agreed to be a prayer warrior for Anna and help us spread the word about our journey.  Even though her daughter gave a gift in her mother's name, the mother also gave another donation to help us bring Anna home.  For all of you who are in the process or want to be in the process of adopting one of the sweeties from Reece's Rainbow, I want to tell you to just turn it over to the Lord.  If it is meant to be for your family to adopt a precious little child God will work it all out.  I never dreamed that Mike would be excited about adopting a child and a special needs child at that!  I have left all of the finances up to God and am depending on him for every penny that we need to give this little girl a loving and forever family.  God has carried us this far and I have no doubt that he will continue to walk with us on this journey to bring our princess home.

Notice anything?

Anybody notice that the numbers are going down on the chipin?  We have been given some very generous donations this week!  Praise God!  We are getting there and I believe that God is going to get us to Anna's country, one way or another.  It's happening people!  God is so good!

Yipeeeeeeee

I got a call from USCIS (immigrations) that we were approved for our I600A!  We should be getting our letter in the mail soon!  We have really had some issues with our adoption and paperwork.  There have been several people in our adoption journey with great, big ego issues that really slowed us down.  When we finally got our paperwork sent off to immigrations they rejected it saying they needed FIVE more things added to our paperwork.  These were things that some people did not want to deal with and help us out to fix our paperwork so we could get approval.  Long story, short version.  We hired a new agency who bent over backwards to help us get our paperwork that we needed and sent in to immigrations.  USCIS received our paperwork THE day of our deadline.  A lot of tears, prayers and sweat went into getting all of this together on time.  The deadline was November 19th.  If we didn't get our paperwork to them by the 19th they were going to charge us $680 more dollars to re-apply!  I checked online to see that they did receive the paperwork on time and Fedex showed me that someone signed for it on the 19th.  So a month rolls by and we haven't heard anything.  I decided to call them and see if they will give me an update on our I600A.  Mrs. Williams we never received your paperwork, is what I hear through the telephone.  What?  You didn't receive my paperwork?  But Fedex says online that you did.  OK well send us proof that we received it and then fax us all of the paperwork.  Sounds easy enough, eh? Wrong! I run downstairs to find my paperwork showing the confirmation # so that I can fax it to immigrations.... EXCEPT....the portion of the receipt that should show the confirmation # has been torn off! What? How?  I am crying at this point, thinking we are not going to be able to show proof that they received it without that confirmation #.  I go through all 5,000 sheets of paper (that's what it looked like) at least 5 times and cannot find that little sliver of paper with the confirmation # on it.  More tears, more prayers.  So I throw myself together and run up the street to the little packaging store where I had sent off my Fedex package.  In my brain I am thinking they are not going to be able to help me without that #....but guess what?  They could help me and they did!  They were able to pull up on their computer where I had sent the package and it was delivered on the 19th and signed for.  Praise God!  Tears start falling again!  Thank you Lord!  So this morning I get a phone call from the very kind lady at USCIS saying that we were approved and should be getting our approval letter in the mail soon!  Thank you Lord!  We are one step closer to Anna!!

Dear God,
please let this be the last Christmas that Anna has to spend alone as an orphan.  Thank you for  making a way for us to be able to financially go and rescue her and give her a family of her own.  Hold her tight and keep her safe.  Let her belly be full and let her always know your love.  Comfort her when she's lonely, sad or sick, until we can go and take her away from her life in the orphanage.  That's really all I want for Christmas!
Amen

and the winner is......

The winner of our iPad is Jennifer Bourget!!  An email has been sent to notify the lucky winner!! 

CONGRATULATIONS JENNIFER!!!

A HUGE thanks to all who have donated and helped us get

a few steps closer to our sweet Anna!!

May God bless you all!