Christmas Miracle

Our Christmas Miracle has happened!!!
We reached half way for our adoption finances. Thank you to everyone who helped this happen!!

Below is our Christmas Letter we hope you all will enjoy hearing all the Lord has done.

Merry Christmas 2012!!

The Lang Family

We decided because of our exciting circumstances to save money and not send out Christmas cards but to just send out a letter. I almost did not get this done but after this week’s events I just had to share all God has been doing. It has been a challenging but amazing year.

January- We spent time in much prayer as my brother was in a serious motorcycle accident while on duty. I look back amazed at how God spared his life and how quickly he healed and is walking and back to work. God also laid on Sarah’s heart to serve on a short term missions trip to Honduras in the fall.

February- We celebrated many birthdays this month and enjoyed homeschooling, art club, scrap booking and AWANA.

March- Sarah and I went to a Voice of the Martyrs conference and heard some incredible speakers. We took a field trip and went to see sheep being sheared. Pierson is learning to play the guitar and Sarah celebrated her 10^th Birthday! She got her ears pierced.

April- We celebrated the incredible gift of salvation through our Lord, Jesus Christ.

The Lord has been bringing many new friends into our lives and we have been celebrating more birthdays. Someone even turned 80 this year!

May- After struggling with female medical issues for most of my life and having them become more severe in the past few months. I finally decided to have major surgery after the Lord led me to a doctor that could do the surgery a less invasive way. I am so thankful this surgery went well and I feel so much better!

June- We celebrated 20 wonderful years of Marriage! We ventured to a Homeschooling Conference where Sarah got to meet on of her favorite authors and we took a trip to the Franklin Institute.

July- Was full of sadness as we said goodbye to my Aunt who had been battling cancer. She is dearly missed. Soon after God rocked our world by calling us to take a huge step of faith (especially financially) and obey his call to adopt again. We excitingly saw the video of our 5 year old son to be on July 19^th. We all knew the moment we saw him that he was the match for our family. So for all the boys we now have Peter whose name means rock, Pierson whose name means son of Peter, and Cargan whose name means little rock or little Peter. We can not wait to bring Cargan home!

August- Our letter to ask to adopt our son was sent on his 6^th birthday and we are preapproved to adopt him. The paperwork continues to flurry. We started our home study and honestly don’t know if we had a summer at all as we had been buried in paperwork.

September- We began our new homeschooling year as Peter also went back to teach library.  We are excited as my Aunt married a sweet man. We also celebrated the adoption of two precious children into a wonderful family from our church.

October- Pierson celebrated his 8^th Birthday!  The kids had a yard sale in the freezing cold to raise money for our adoption and friends joined us at a Chinese dinner fundraiser. On the missions front, two families we know sold everything they owned and went to serve the Lord on the other side of the world. I was also privileged to share in Sarah’s first mission’s trip to Honduras. It was an incredible trip that taught us so much about the power of prayer. We were also thankful for answered prayer in keeping our family safe during Hurricane Sandy.

November- We spent most of the month passing around sickness and also celebrating Thanksgiving. We had so much to be thankful for. A dear friend had a coffee fundraiser for our adoption and many joined to help us.

December- We excitingly sent our Dossier (packet of original documents) to CHINA!! (Approximately 6 more months to go). We gathered with friends. The kids worked hard to get ahead at school so they could have some time off.  I then shared how we were half way with our paperwork, half way with our puzzle and praying for a Christmas miracle to get half way there financially. God answered that prayer in 1 week.  People gave when they heard, one person sold a very valuable item, others gathered together and had a bake sale and then others gave some more until that Christmas Miracle was met!!!! You can follow our adoption journey at our blog: www.provinceoflove.blogspot.com

God is so amazing! How he can care so much for a little boy on the other side of the world and choose to bless us with this precious life. But there is something so much more amazing and that is He loved us so much that He sent His son Jesus Christ for us. He offers this gift of eternal life through His son to each of us. We can belong forever to His heavenly family if we choose to have a person relationship with the Risen Savior. Our prayer is that each one of you will accept this incredible gift this Christmas.

                                  Merry Christmas and May the Lord Bless Your New Year!