Much happened yesterday but one of the big things is that the agency that I posted about on the 13th decided yesterday that they were not going to work with KKids.
Hard news to hear but God has a plan and it is way bigger than I can imagine. Please pray for all who are involved that they would trust Him to care for these children and that He would provide for this situation exceedingly, abundantly.
Much is happening on this front and He must work in an amazing way for this all to work out. This is certainly not beyond His control or out of the scope of His power, we must take all things to Him in prayer.
11/20/09
11/14/09
Ethiopia Slide Show
I am currently scheduled to show the slide show from our trip on Sunday morning. It will be in the SS class 1st hour at GBC. You can send me an email-chuck@pricelessgranite.com- if you have questions or need directions. It should be fun.
11/13/09
New Agency
For a few weeks now we have been praying for KKids agency situation; they had one that they had been working with for quite some time and that stopped and so there was no easy way for them to get the kids placed w/o an agency partner. Well, in very "only God" form, He came through for them and they not only have an agency, they have the agency that costs the least amount of any they had on the table.
Michelle is very excited, as they already have 4 families in the process, with the new agency, and quite a few more ready to jump in. This will mean that some of the kids we saw in Ethiopia will be placed in the not too distant future. God is so good. I hope that some of them will come to Washington so we can see them periodically. Our hearts are certainly connected with them.
It has been fun to watch God work all this out and He generally waits until there is no other way before He does act. In this way He maximizes the glory as there is no way we can claim any of the work. He is good.
Please continue to pray for the kids and the workers. Please pray that God would continue to bring families that want to adopt and that He would be moving in the hearts of the children to draw them to Himself. If they come to America to have a family and are not in His, they have not improved their situation. Please also pray for another agency to work with KKids, as this would allow them to place even more kids. God is THE Protector and Provider and it is up to Him to work and do those things, but we must still ask.
Michelle is very excited, as they already have 4 families in the process, with the new agency, and quite a few more ready to jump in. This will mean that some of the kids we saw in Ethiopia will be placed in the not too distant future. God is so good. I hope that some of them will come to Washington so we can see them periodically. Our hearts are certainly connected with them.
It has been fun to watch God work all this out and He generally waits until there is no other way before He does act. In this way He maximizes the glory as there is no way we can claim any of the work. He is good.
Please continue to pray for the kids and the workers. Please pray that God would continue to bring families that want to adopt and that He would be moving in the hearts of the children to draw them to Himself. If they come to America to have a family and are not in His, they have not improved their situation. Please also pray for another agency to work with KKids, as this would allow them to place even more kids. God is THE Protector and Provider and it is up to Him to work and do those things, but we must still ask.
11/11/09
Tick, Tick, Tick
I have to share all these stories- tales, as my friend Curtis calls them- with you because it is so amazing to see God work in the small and the big things in our lives.
Teresa and I had to send in a big packet of papers to the USCIS in Texas. What the letters mean really doesn't add to the story. We had received an 18 page set of instructions from our agency for use in a particular set of documents, but with any instructions there is room for interpretation, even if they are in English.
She had a few questions and so she called the agency before actually sending the paperwork and the cashiers check off. I had asked her if ALL of those papers needed to go and she told me she had talked to the agency and they gave her the nod. The problem was that they could not see what she was actually sending.
Off to the Fedex place. We went to the first place and found out that they did have cashiers checks, so we would be able to get the package off from this location. But then we found out that we had to have $1000 CASH in order to get it there. Yeah, like I am carry a grand around in my pocket. OK, not from this location.
We get the envelope paid for and then we had to get to the bank to get the cashier check. Drive 15 minutes, tick, tick, tick. The lady called ahead and said that the driver picks up at 4. We have a half an hour. OK, we have time.
We get to the bank, T runs in to get the cashiers check and runs back out. Tick, tick, tick. We go over to where the Fedex place is suppose to be, but we can't find it. We drive around the block, but it is not where we thought it was. Around the block again, but now from a different angle. "Oh, there it is". 4:06.
"Sorry, the driver picked up about 10 minutes ago". Ok, why all the driving around to miss the truck, by 10 minutes, until tomorrow?
We got home and the agency called and asked how it was going. Many questions and answers forth coming. Then the lady said something and I looked over to the counter with all the piles on it and noticed that the one BIG pile was completely gone. I asked some questions of her and T and came to the conclusion that we had sent too much paperwork in the packet. Then an hour later T looked through some more of her many stacks and noticed that there was 1 piece of paper that had gotten separated the pile that was supposed to go.
The next morning she went back down to the Fedex place and asked if she could take some papers out and add 1 in and they were nice enough to give it back to her so she could.
Humm, I wonder why the driver came just before we got there? I wonder why we had to go to the bank 15 minutes away to get the check? God is like that. He even cares about Fedex deliver and pickup times.
Teresa and I had to send in a big packet of papers to the USCIS in Texas. What the letters mean really doesn't add to the story. We had received an 18 page set of instructions from our agency for use in a particular set of documents, but with any instructions there is room for interpretation, even if they are in English.
She had a few questions and so she called the agency before actually sending the paperwork and the cashiers check off. I had asked her if ALL of those papers needed to go and she told me she had talked to the agency and they gave her the nod. The problem was that they could not see what she was actually sending.
Off to the Fedex place. We went to the first place and found out that they did have cashiers checks, so we would be able to get the package off from this location. But then we found out that we had to have $1000 CASH in order to get it there. Yeah, like I am carry a grand around in my pocket. OK, not from this location.
We get the envelope paid for and then we had to get to the bank to get the cashier check. Drive 15 minutes, tick, tick, tick. The lady called ahead and said that the driver picks up at 4. We have a half an hour. OK, we have time.
We get to the bank, T runs in to get the cashiers check and runs back out. Tick, tick, tick. We go over to where the Fedex place is suppose to be, but we can't find it. We drive around the block, but it is not where we thought it was. Around the block again, but now from a different angle. "Oh, there it is". 4:06.
"Sorry, the driver picked up about 10 minutes ago". Ok, why all the driving around to miss the truck, by 10 minutes, until tomorrow?
We got home and the agency called and asked how it was going. Many questions and answers forth coming. Then the lady said something and I looked over to the counter with all the piles on it and noticed that the one BIG pile was completely gone. I asked some questions of her and T and came to the conclusion that we had sent too much paperwork in the packet. Then an hour later T looked through some more of her many stacks and noticed that there was 1 piece of paper that had gotten separated the pile that was supposed to go.
The next morning she went back down to the Fedex place and asked if she could take some papers out and add 1 in and they were nice enough to give it back to her so she could.
Humm, I wonder why the driver came just before we got there? I wonder why we had to go to the bank 15 minutes away to get the check? God is like that. He even cares about Fedex deliver and pickup times.
11/9/09
What's going on with our Process?
I have purposefully left the last post on top for a long time in hopes that many would add their stories and "Thank you" to those who have done that.
Just a little update on where we are on our process. We have our home study completed-finally- and we are now starting the I800 form, which is a whole bunch of paper work that Teresa is really knocking out. This will all have to be completed and then we have to take it to Olympia to finalize it. Then finger prints and...
Last week I told the agency that it didn't seem like we had done that much paper work yet and really just had to answer a bunch of questions and wait. She told me that since the HS was completed that now was the time when we were going to have to do lots of paperwork. So here we go. If you have helpful hints about this process feel free to comment, as it seems like there are those, other than just us, who can benefit from your insight into these things.
Please be praying for "Vince" as I don't think if he knows yet and if he understands the process in China he may be getting discouraged at his chances of having a home. Also, pray that God would already be working in his heart, drawing him to Himself. It is amazing to think that God can work right now in his heart even when he may not be getting any Biblical teaching. There is a God shaped hole in each one of our hearts and God can make us see that it is empty whenever He wants. Pray that he would feel the great need he has.
Just a little update on where we are on our process. We have our home study completed-finally- and we are now starting the I800 form, which is a whole bunch of paper work that Teresa is really knocking out. This will all have to be completed and then we have to take it to Olympia to finalize it. Then finger prints and...
Last week I told the agency that it didn't seem like we had done that much paper work yet and really just had to answer a bunch of questions and wait. She told me that since the HS was completed that now was the time when we were going to have to do lots of paperwork. So here we go. If you have helpful hints about this process feel free to comment, as it seems like there are those, other than just us, who can benefit from your insight into these things.
Please be praying for "Vince" as I don't think if he knows yet and if he understands the process in China he may be getting discouraged at his chances of having a home. Also, pray that God would already be working in his heart, drawing him to Himself. It is amazing to think that God can work right now in his heart even when he may not be getting any Biblical teaching. There is a God shaped hole in each one of our hearts and God can make us see that it is empty whenever He wants. Pray that he would feel the great need he has.
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