90 Puzzle Pieces

Praise the Lord!!! We have finished the first part of our adoption process. We received our final completed copy of our home study today in the mail!!! (Finished in 6 weeks!! They say it can take 2-4 months. The Lord led us to a great agency!)

That means we can move to the next step which is our I800A immigration form and a check for $890. Yesterday when I added up the puzzle pieces we were at 90!!! That is $900 and that covers our I800A form fee. God is so AMAZING!!!

Thank you so much for all your prayers and support and for coming around us in the journey to bring Cargan home. Please keep praying for paper work to keep moving. The standard time to have the I800A approved is 2-3 months. Please pray for God's perfect timing and provisions as we have more forms and fees due at the end of this step and pray for us as we wait and wait. Our hearts ache to hold our son and we look forward to God's perfect plan for when we will all be united.

Humble ramblings:

It is amazing how when we wait and listen, God will put the pieces together in his time. But I think this is the lesson I have to keep learning. I need to put the business aside (Satin is so good at keeping me busy) and I have to be still and listen to His voice. How many blessing have I missed because I didn’t listen or I listened but just ignored His voice?  I got a devotional from “A Holy Experience” (link is on the left side) and it was titled “When you’ve been waiting for an answer and …life seems silent. Wow, I feel that captured my heart when waiting for God to show us about adopting. The 8 year old boy asks his mother in this article: “Do you think God’s calling our name too — and we’re just not listening?” It was a very heart stirring article which made me stop and think. Reminding me that each day that He created I have to be still and listen to what He is calling me to do.

Unexpected gifts part 3

Unexpected gifts, again and again and again part 3:

God is Amazing! Yesterday he blessed us with more sponsored pieces. Thank You!! We now have 56 pieces sponsored and only 694 more to go. He then blessed us with a precious offer to do a “31” bag fundraiser and give all the proceeds towards our adoption. If that wasn’t enough, He then sent a dear sister in Christ who offered to be in charge of fundraising for me. This is huge as this is so not my gift. Thank you!  Today he then put on another sweet sister’s heart to spread the word to her friends about our puzzle project. It is amazing to watch the body of Christ work together in ways you never would think of, His Plan is always so much better than we can imagine.

unexpected gifts part 2

An unexpected gift part 2:

Earlier this week I was having a day when I was really struggling. My cup was feeling so empty. I was not ready for the drop of heavenly water God would put in my cup that day.  I had made a call from a flier I had gotten almost a year ago to get some information about Chinese classes. ( My thought was that we would try to learn a little more than our few sentences we can say before Cargan comes home.) Well I spoke with this wonderful woman who gives Chinese classes. I explained how we were adopting and wanted to maybe learn some more Chinese. She was very kind and gave me all the info. It seemed like a good fit but we probably will wait right now since we are saving to adopt. The Lord led me to this precious woman for another reason. A few hours later I received such a beautiful email from this same woman, a complete stranger offering her understanding in this hard journey and praying God would bless us. She even said that if we did not do the class she would love to help us with the transition when Cargan comes home and help us with translating. (We need help with translating we are trying to get a package ready to send to Cargan.) This was such and unexpected gift from God, only HE knew what we needed. He knew what my heart needed. To have a complete stranger offer to help us brought tears to my eyes. The power of listening to HIS voice. What an Amazing God!

An unexpected gift part 1

I know adoption is a hard long road but I didn’t realize that this adoption would be such a hard journey, especially spiritually. I have been on this road before and it was hard but this adoption is so different, much harder on the soul. You see our first adoption God led us to a miraculous place where it is their ministry to place God’s children in Christian homes and the cost is a small fraction to what we are doing now. We had most of what we needed and God provided the last bit in that adoption. This adoption seems like such a huge mountain and I keep clinging to the fact that nothing is impossible with God even when my faith right now is as small as a mustard seed.  I just keep clinging to God knowing that this was His plan and He will provide. I can’t rely in what I think should happen but humble myself and completely let go and let God work. When will I learn this?? Hopefully one day I will get this a little sooner each time. I even had to let go the desire to adopt. I have spent the last school year mourning that desire and letting it go and trusting that God’s plan was best. After I was done letting go and seeking God’s guidance in how to be advocating for His children He began to miraculously put the pieces quickly together and gave us an unexpected gift: our son in China.

 So here we are walking in faith on this adoption road not knowing how this will happen but trusting it will. It has been a humbling experience because usually I get to enjoy being blessed watching God work by helping others. I love listening to Him and seeing Him work. But this time, He is calling me to be still and Know that He IS God and asking me to let others hear HIS voice. I pray that people will not see us but the precious 6 year old boy God created waiting patiently in China for God to bring him HOME so he can learn about HIM. We can’t do this alone.

Emails

I hope you are getting the blog updates by email. I noticed that the entire new post is in the email. Don't forget to click at the bottom of the email on Province of Love in small print to check out the blog. I am slowly adding things of interest in the sidebars that will not come in the email. I hope you are enjoying watching God work. We had some more bumps with our medical forms today but God was so good. He caught them before they got to China! Please pray as we have another big stack of papers to work through and more fees to pay. We then have lots of waiting on different forms to be approved here and more fees. This is a long process. Several have asked when we will go to get Cargan. They tell us 12-15 months for the entire process. I think we are 2 months in, maybe more, so hopefully by next summer or sooner Lord willing we will be traveling to get our sweet boy. This is a hard long emotional journey and we appreciate all your prayers and support.

More Puzzle Pieces

     We are happy to say we have another 11 pieces and a message for that set. It is exciting to see these special names and words for Cargan. They will have such a special meaning to him someday. He will not have a lot of information about his past history, but he will have a HISstory of how God brought him home. We pray more will join us in this journey as we can not do this alone.

                                          16 pieces!!! Only 734 more to go.

First Puzzle Pieces

Hooray!

We have our first 5 pieces! THANK YOU!!!

We are starting to document this wonderful journey so Cargan will see all those who helped him come home!!!

Testing the email updates

I am testing to see if the updated posts are being emailed. Our puzzle project was posted today.

Cargan's Puzzle

We are currently in the process of adopting our son from China. As you may or may not know, this is a very costly venture. We are so grateful for how God has already provided for us, and we are so excited to see Him working to bring in the needed funds! This PUZZLE is an opportunity for you to join with us in this ministry of adoption. We will be putting together a puzzle for Cargan, and we would like to give you the opportunity to sponsor parts of that puzzle, whether it is one piece or several pieces. As each piece is sponsored we will assemble the puzzle and keep you updated via blog. If you choose to participate, your name or message will be written on the back of the piece(s) that you sponsor. This way, when Cargan is home, he will have a beautiful record of how many people helped bring him home and more importantly of God’s perfect plan for his life!

Sponsorships are $10 per piece of puzzle.

You can sponsor a piece of Cargan’s Puzzle through the Chip In button on the right hand side which will lead you to pay by paypal or credit card. If you wish to pay by check it can be mailed directly to us at our home. Please let us know by email or mail what name or message you would like written on your piece(s). They are small so we can only put one word per piece.

We are excited to watch the puzzle form and see all the friends and family join to celebrate our journey to bring Cargan home!!!

We just heard back from China!!!!

We are now pre-approved to adopt him.

Here is our precious son Cargan!

So we now have Peter meaning "rock", Pierson meaning "son of Peter" and Cargan meaning "little rock or little Peter"

This picture was just taken 2 weeks ago the date on it is not correct.

A God of Miracles

God is Amazing!!
We are adopting from China!!!!

Miracles are things that just can’t be explained. And one thing that can’t be explained is how our Amazing God can create a child just for you around the world in a specific province in China and fill your heart with the deepest love for that child and to know he was created just for your family.

We have been on a long heart journey not knowing what God’s plan was for our family but he has lead us in His perfect timing to our son who in 6 years old and waiting for us in China. We are waiting to hear from China if we will be preapproved to adopt our precious boy and will share more hopefully soon!

We are people who plan and like to have things in order before we step, but this time God has asked us to take a huge step of faith and walk in obedience when we have no idea how it will come together but, we believe he will provide. We pray you will walk with us on this journey and see an Amazing God do amazing things. I believe in miracles do you?

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