Another unexpected miracle

Hi everyone! Thanks so much for all of your prayers and encouraging notes on my FB page! We are so excited to be finally in count-down mode and it's so great to be able to share this with all of you.

To quickly update you, we are still waiting to hear on our airline tickets w/Singapore Air. Our travel agency had followed up yesterday and were asked by Singapore Air to follow up today. Today is when we need to book our tickets so we're really hoping that one way or another, we'll be able to stay on Singapore Air but ultimately are trusting God to work out His plan and not ours. Yes, even w/tickets, God has a plan!

Our current miracle that we are praising God for is we found out yesterday that we will be able to wire our orphanage fee to our orphanage. Why is this a big deal to us? Well, our province wasn't originally one of the few that we could wire that fee to. The fee is a little over $5000 CASH that we would have to carry on our persons with us to China PLUS the other cash that we would need. Jim, especially, has been nervous about carrying all of that cash while we travel so this is a HUGE load off of both of our minds to be able to wire that ahead of time and not stress so much! Yea God! And the other cool thing is that we didn't even ask our agency to ask the orphanage - they did it on their own and surprised us yesterday! I LOVE it when God takes care of things without us even having to ask!!! SOOOOOOOO AMAZING! We are so incredibly humbled and thankful for all of the details that God has taken care of on our behalf! We don't deserve any of this and yet God has gone above and beyond to care for our every need! Praise God for His incredible faithfulness and grace!

So today, we continue to wait and see how God will work out our travel and see how He'll continue to provide the rest of the monies we need to adopt our little girl. We hope that one of these grant agencies will come through so all of our funds will be taken care of but ultimately, we trust God to work all things out.

I wanted to ask you all to also pray for our former church situation. We're continuing to have people come to us with a variety of questions and would ask for your prayers over what we say and how we handle things. We don't want to dishonor God in this process....He's been dishonored enough. His church is hurting and desperately needs the healing it's being denied. Pray for God's will to prevail and for healing over the many who are hurting but don't know why. Pray that we would honor God with our words and our actions and for healing for our hearts also.

Thank you all so much for all of your encouragement and support! You have all played a MAJOR role in bringing Jasmine home and helping us keep our arms raised and we are so thankful for all of you! We continue to PRAISE God for His AMAZING provision, encouragement, love and grace! Yea God!