We may not have turkey and dressing, but we'll be thankful indeed! Eddie and I are headed to Haiti for Thanksgiving! Can't wait to see our girl!
Over the past few weeks, we've had some ups and a lot of downs, which finally resulted in our buying plane tickets to Haiti for this week. These tickets were initially purchased with the intention of figuring out WHAT is going on with our file, what is missing, and overall where we stand. A huge thanks to our sweet church family at Vineyard Community Church for helping make this trip happen!
At first, we were supposedly fine, just waiting to exit IBESR, then we were missing a form, then later found out said form is only necessary in France; last update we heard, there is a spelling error in our file that needs to be resovled. Not sure if this is the only lingering issue, but at the moment, is the only one we know of.
One other thing that came up this week is that when we thought we had received presidential dispensation back in June (when we thought we should be exiting IBESR), we had actually received a different type of dispensation...basically, that's effectively when they started processing our file. Sigh...
The good news is, we may not need presidential dispensation anymore...which should "speed things up." I'm really not even sure what that means anymore, but I continue to trust in God's timing!
At the end of the day, we know God is bigger than all of this, His Will is going to be done one way or another, and we continue to praise Him that even if it's taking a LOT longer than we'd like, we are getting a daughter! We are praying specifically that we will exit IBESR this month! That would be absolutely amazing! Please do pray with us!
And speaking of prayer, we have also been blessed in this past week to have been put on the intercessory prayer list of the EPBOMI Chruch of Africa. I get the feeling they know all to well the forces against which we are working and it is truly humbling to have such a chain of beloved members of the body of Christ petitioning before the thrown of God on our behalf, even on the other side of the globe! Praise God for His love which is shared by the community of believers!
No comments:
Post a Comment