We are planning a garage sale to continue to raise the ending fees before we travel. I defiantly had things to clean out of my house , even things I could use but they just not as important as going to get her, I can't live with out to live with. (my heart says). So yesterday we had to make a doctors apt trip to the VA in Shreveport for Jeremy and as we are going into the gate I noticed that my ID card was to expire in June. Jeremy quickly said " we should go over there and get you another one! even though we'll be back with Bella before the end of June we won't have to worry with that!" I agreed and knew that since it was in the same building with the insurance I need to answer questions about that anyway. So we did.... We were seen right away and as this young lady prepared getting ready to take my new photo for my ID. I began to ask her questions about adding our adopted daughter into DEERS and just what and when I could get that started? She asked where we were adopting from and then commented on how amazing she thought it was. She then asked" Have you heard of "Show Hope"? I smiled and told her that we had applied for help from them. She explained that she gave monthly to them and was always praying that her support was going to the adopting families. I reassured her and continued to praise and brag on God and how he had began and brought us this far. Jeremy and she talked about her learning Spanish and him having family that have a Spanish church. She got very excited and started talking about the thing that God had placed on her heart to do in the future and how he speaks to her and guides her heart. Not only was it so refreshing to hear that from a young lady but to hear her proudly talking about it in a public work environment with us many others in hearing distance. Right away we recognized her as similar and family. She was a believer of Christ and loved him the same as we did. You could feel the Holy Spirit feel the room, in the way that brings an emotion that would make you want to hold a stranger and cry with them like your best friend but you have never met them and only known each other for 15 mins. That love and connection only comes from and the through the holy spirit from Christ.
We continued to talk and she asked about how we had raised funds for the adoption and what we still had? I told her that we were planning a garage sale and she wanted to know when, I explained that we lived one and half hours away and it didn't seem to phase her. She asked if we were taking donations for the sale and I smiled with a yes! She told us that she have just bought a new couch but she hated the color of it and wasn't wanting to sale it. She asked for our number and told us that she had to pray but she thought God may want her to give us her couch. We left once again amazed of how God works and how each day of your life is planned for previsions from God. (If your doing his will) We went from there to the BX to look around and who walks in behind us that the same sweet girl. She laughed and promised that she wasn't following us and that God told her to give her couch to us and she was there to look for a new one. What a blessing. This sweet girl with a love for what is on God's heart is giving us all that she can. I can imagine how she probably is still paying on this couch and will soon buy another just to have a larger debt just because she is sensitive to what God wants. We will get to see her again this weekend as we drive over to pick up her couch!!
Back to news....
April 22, 2013
They all suggested timelines are right on time so far.... Saturday we picked up all three of our passports with our visa entry stickers for China inside. Can't get in without that!I received an email today that told us our Article 5 was picked up and this is what is said....
Dear Adoptive Parent
Next, your agency will deliver the Article 5 and Letter of Seeking Confirmation to the China Center for Children's Welfare and Adoption (CCCWA), which will issue the Travel Approval (TA). The TA allows you to come to China to finalize the adoption, so once the CCCWA issues the TA, your agency can email us to request an immigrant visa appointment at the Consulate. When your agency requests an appointment, they are required to submit your five choices in rank order. The ACIVU strives to schedule every family for their top appointment choice on which we still have available visa appointments. We do not reserve certain days for children of certain ages. All appointments are open to adopted children of any age and medical condition, and they are assigned on a first-come, first-served basis. We then notify your agency of the scheduled date and time.We look forward to meeting you and your new family member when you come to the Consulate for your visa appointment!
SO we now wait to receive our approval to travel. OUR INVITE! Once we receive that we can have our appointment scheduled and book our tickets. Praise to the Lord God Almighty just could only be done by him alone!
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