We Got The Call.....

Yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We got the call from China. Possibly leaving July 30th to go to China. Pray that we get our first request for a consulate date of August 11th. It would make arrangements for our kids soooooooooo much easier!!! We will leave China August 14th...

Thank you Jesus!!!

Oh, and also pray that China will reduce our inter-country fees. WACAP is going to request this tomorrow. Also pray that Chun Yan's original orphanage will allow us to pick her up at Bethel instead of having to pick her up at her original orphanage. Picking her up from Bethel would be so much less traumatic! God is good and He has the cards all lined up... I just need to sit back and relax... :-)

Your prayers are greatly appreciated!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks,
Rebekah

Soooo Excited...

We feel sooooooooo blessed!!! We got the mail yesterday from our old house, (which should all be forwarded and is not...) and we got a letter from Shaohannah's Hope. I was so nervous to open it, for fear that we had not gotten the grant. I opened it and discovered that we had been chosen to receive a grant of $5,ooo. I could not cry because it would have turned into the 'ugly cry'... :-) We feel so blessed to be a part of this organization and to be receiving a grant from them. We are just waiting to hear from the CCAA that it is time to travel and then we will make plans to go. Everything is done... hopefully we get the call...

On a side note, Ryan is in Haiti at GLA, helping John Bickel put up a pole barn. He left on the 9th and will get back on the 19th. Luckily I have Anna here helping me. Things always happen when a spouse is away: On Tuesday I ended up in the ER with what they found to be an ovarian cyst on my left ovary and Hannah had an allergic reaction to peanut butter while I was on my way to the ER... Really??? can anything else go wrong??? :-)

Okay... so I will leave you with some new pics of the kids from a trip to the Saeger Farm last weekend... I always get their pic by or on the swing every year. Some of my favorite pics of the kids have been taken there. Oh, BTW... look who is standing... and walking independently sometimes too. The most steps he has taken is 18. Yeah Jonas!!!!!!!!