Fully Funded!

Lots of amazing news to share with all of you tonight - - check out the thermometer below... yup!!!  We are fully funded - we are ready to head to Ch*na!!  This is another amazing story that only God could write along our journey to Makenna.  If you have reading our blog for a while, you know that our final fundraiser was selling our second car since Jason now has a company vehicle.  We posted the car for sale on the blog and also advertised it on cars.com in hopes of getting it sold for the amount of money we needed to fund the remainder of our adoption.  We heard nothing for several weeks - we knew we still had time, but also really wanted it to SELL!  As time went on with no interest, we began to feel that this was going to be part of our "bigger story", that there was ONE person that needed our car.  Two weeks ago we moved the car to a better location at our friend's house (you know the saying... location, location, location!!).

Last Wednesday we got the call that we were praying about and we knew it right away.  We received a call from a woman in our local community she was very interested in the car for her grandchildren - her daughter's family is missionaries, and their college age children need a car.  WOW - we felt so blessed that God had chosen a family who has committed their life to sharing God's Word across the world to help us fund the final part of our adoption - NO ONE could write a story like this.  After I got off the phone with her the first time I knew that these were the people we had been praying would find us.  

More good news??? Yup... last Friday Makenna's Immigrant Visa was issued (this is referred to as the Article 5 pick up in the China Adoption Community). This paperwork has been forwarded from the US Consulate in China to the Ch*nese Central Authority that oversees international adoptions.  We are now officially waiting for our TRAVEL APPROVAL (TRAVEL!!!).   We are hoping to receive that in the next two weeks (by mid-May).  Once we receive TA then we  request our appointment at the US Consulate and book our travel arrangements.  Would you join us in prayer again?  Pray for a speedy TA, pray that we can get a Consulate Appointment in the first week of June (or earlier), and pray that all our travel arrangements would come together without a glitch!  We are READY to go, READY to board a plane, and READY to meet our daughter!!

Stay tuned by friends - you will be among the first to know when we get that next call that we have TRAVEL APPROVAL!