Ok,
so it is 1:00am and I desperately need to go to bed but just can shut off my
brain!!
So
I will write instead!
When
we wake up in the morning there will be 2 full days left before our major
fundraising event on Saturday which I am beyond excited about, I am praying for
some major things to happen and not the least of those things is good weather,
which looks like it may just happen!
The
5K/Yard sale/spaghetti dinner/all day event with games, Chinese auctions,
Raffles and other fun things begins at 9:00am and will go till 7:00 with
various start times for things such as the actual 5K which begins at 3:00. Here
is the flyer for our fun event; if you haven’t already signed up I will also
attach the link to our ticket/donation website.
My
son Noah is so excited to have a sharpie tattoo booth where he can raise some
money for his own plane ticket to China as well, don’t worry, if you don’t like
sharpie there will be regular face paint too!!
Good
news to report as well, our homestudy is officially complete and we have sent
our I-800a into homeland security for immigration clearance which should take a
few weeks then we can seal our dossier documents and get our paper work to
China finally, hopefully, by the beginning of November! Praying that things go
a little quicker than our homestudy at this point, but realizing that the
waiting is half the battle in this journey!
I
cannot say enough right now just how excited I am about this weekend! We get
the most amazing opportunity to meld with our community in a big way and bring
awareness to our friends, neighbors and business about the children in China
just waiting for a home, medical treatments and a mommy and daddy!!! I hope that Ru can see pictures of this day
and really feel just how special and loved she is in this small area!
I
am overwhelmed with the amount of donations, support and offerings of random
people that came out of the blue to offer help for this weekend too, just amazing
to see!
Our
pastor two weekends ago spoke about how God uses us to fulfill his works,
specifically the message about the classic 5 loaves and 2 fishes. Those poor disciples were hungry, tired and
just plain spent when the crowd behind them made their need of hunger known.
Jesus didn’t just produce an abundance of food for these people, he had his disciples
who were tired, weary and couldn’t see straight quite honestly, to gather what
they could and bring it to him. And they
did, and Jesus did do something with those loaves and fishes and so I am asking
God to accept our fundraiser event as our loaves and fishes because I am exhausted
and overwhelmed with paperwork and document signing and emotional stress of not
having my girl home, please use my weariness to His benefit! I pray that he produces not only the funds we
need to bring our girl home but that many people will be touched by the things
they see, a community joining together to enable a little girl who would
otherwise sit in an orphanage alone with no hope a way to come home to her
family. What an amazing opportunity to
see our town’s band together in support of such a great adventure! To say that I am humbled and beyond grateful
is the most egregious understatement!
There
really is so much to say about this journey, Little Ru I know you will read
this someday and I hope can see how your little heart, so far away, has touched
so many hearts, so far away!! Love truly can move mountains, and oceans and
continents. I cannot wait till you get
to meet all of the people who have given so much of themselves so freely to be
able to one day meet you, you are an amazing special girl indeed!
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