We would like you to meet our new daughter!

Praise Jesus! We've got our match and she is pickin' precious! Her Chinese name, which we're still trying to find out the meaning, is Liu Yi Jing and she's 9 months old! She was born on January 8, 2009 and has some developmental delays. We'll have to see what the extent is once we bring her back to the states but we feel confident that after helping Lily through her delays, we're perfectly suited for this precious baby! We have received the "pre-approval" from the CCAA so everything is official!!!!

We would like to ask for all of your prayers as we still have a total of $15-$17k to raise, almost $5k of that we have already. The thing is that we could be traveling as quickly as 5-8 weeks to go get her instead of the 3-5 months that we were originally told! If you or anyone you know drinks coffee, please consider buying a bag from our store. (See the earlier post for the link) We also have 1 grant agency that will be reviewing our file in December so please pray for that as they may be able to give us a grant to help w/the expenses.

The bottom line is that God knew way before the beginning of time, that He would ask us to be obedient to sell our house for much less and knew that the proceeds wouldn't be enough to cover our adoption. He knew that we would have to go through a horrific situation at our church and have to leave the support system we had for the whole 7 1/2 years we've been here. He's known all of this and He has a plan and we are trusting Him to provide. Praise God for His provision and more importantly, Praise God for our new precious daughter, Jasmine!!!!!!

We'll keep you all posted as we move forward as this will probably move very quickly. Yea God and thank you all for your prayers!