AMAZING

God is so AMAZING!  We only need 245 people to give $25 each to be fully funded!!!
God is moving mountains through people who are giving so generously. We are so humbled and thankful for the envelopes with donations, online donations, gifts in Christmas cards to the anonymous card arriving in the mail, all to help bring Moriah home. It has been an amazing journey watching God work. My sweet Sarah only asked for things for Christmas to get the room ready for her sister. So after receiving gifts from our extended family we happily decorated the girls room. We are so thankful for the crib from my sister. It is a precious thought that all her children and now Moriah will use this crib. 

We still have room on the So Loved Frame!!

Please keep praying that the Lord will raise up the last 245 people needed for the frame fundraiser or that he will show us what to do next. We are praying for wisdom on how to raise this last amount.

 Prayer is so powerful. Thank you for all your prayers and encouragement. 

WOW!!!!!

Look at the thermometer at the right!!!  What a jump!  We are getting so close to being fully funded!
We only need 286 people to give $25 to be done raising our funds. We would love to put your name on the frame! We are so thankful for each and everyone of you that have given and helped with fundraising!!  Please keep praying for our paperwork. We keep hitting little bumps but God is Working his perfect timing!!  We hope to have our papers to China the first week of January. When we started the process we should have been traveling late summer so things are moving a little quicker and we hope to travel in the Spring. Please keep praying for Papers to move and for Moriah's heart to be prepared for all the changes that will happen. Thank you all for your love, support and prayers!!

Where is God working??

Wow!! God is working in amazing ways. There is something that really stands out each adoption and for Moriah's it has been watching God work through children. Time and time again we have seen God move children's hearts to help bring Moriah home. It brings me to tears not only because I am so thankful for these gifts coming from their hearts but also for all the Lord will do with the blessing of their giving. I still remember sitting at a baby shower in my childhood church and it was a shower for an adoption and Bethany adoption agency shared and it touched my heart way back then. I can't wait to see how children helping another child will one day touch their lives and others. I got this email from a dear friend of mine who wanted me to know that the large gift in the envelope came only from her children. These words touched my heart and I wanted to share them with you. 

 I told the kids about your picture frame fundraiser, and they were
 excited, and decided to have a collection among themselves, even
 contacting their brother at college. And I bring this up to tell you
that this is strictly their contribution (and they get a dollar a week
allowance, so it is mostly earned income), but also to thank you for an
opportunity for me to see more of my kids' hearts. I can't imagine what
it is like for you to step out in trust and need to raise so much money, 
 but I want to thank you for the privilege you've given us to participate
 in such a great cause. Merry Christmas!

We will have an update soon with all the fundraisers added into the thermometer! 

It has been a busy week! I have been to Harrisburg twice in two days with papers. We now have them complete so our HUGE stack of expensive papers is on its way overnight to NY City to the Chinese Consulate. Please pray they will arrive there safely with all the holiday shipping happening at the same time.The papers are then mailed to our agency and them off to China!!! Please also pray for a miracle that the papers will get to our agency by Dec 21st so they can be sent to China before the holidays or else we will have to wait until Jan 4th!  

Change a life!

So thankful for all the kids and families at our Classical Conversations homeschool co-op!!! They collected $187.58!!! We will be writing CC Royersford on our frame for Moriah. We now only need 487 people to give $25 to be fully funded. 

Thank you for helping to change a life!!!

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little update

It came to my attention that the video the kids made did not come through the email. You can click here www.provinceoflove.blogspot.com to go to the blog and see the video. We have our first donation. We only need 599 more people to give $25 to be fully funded. Add your name to the frame and let Moriah know that she is SO LOVED!!!

SO LOVED

We are so thankful for how the Lord has been working. When we took the step of faith to adopt again the financial mountain of raising $35,000 seemed  so overwhelming but we trusted the Lord and answered His call to bring home Moriah. It has been amazing watching God move this mountain. We are so thankful for everyone who has been involved. Papers are moving and we are hoping we will travel early summer or possibly Spring. ( Sarah is praying for a miracle to be there by her Birthday in March.:))  We have been praying about how to raise the last $15,000 we will need. The kids have come up with a special Christmas fundraiser.Watch and see what they are up to.

                                                 The Christmas SO LOVED fundraiser.
For everyone who donates $25 or more you name will be placed on the SO LOVED picture that will be hung in Moriah's room.  The kids have figured out that if 600 people give $25 OR 300 people give $50 OR 150 people give $100 then we would be FULLY FUNDED! Please pray how they Lord would like you to be involved.  All online donations do take a small % for their transaction fees.

For this fundraiser the easiest way to keep track of where we are will be to donate through the Reeces Rainbow button on the left. Please email me at lang4@hometownu.com    so I know what name to add to the picture. We won't get a list of the people who donate until the end of the month and we would love to fill up the picture as we go. We actually found Moriah on the Reeces Rainbow site. She was known as "Shelly" on there so that is why you will see that name in the description on their site. We are excited to see what the Lord will do through this SO LOVED fundraiser.

A Surprise in the Mail

We are jumping for joy over here!!! When I asked for prayer yesterday for papers to keep moving, I didn't expect to have them arrive in the mail today!!  We had gotten a letter saying it would take 10-14 days and didn't expect the papers for over a week and here they were in the mail. We have our official appointment to go get our fingerprints done with homeland security next week!(Please pray specifically that it will go well for Peter they always have trouble getting his prints) This is a huge step because as soon as we get the results (please pray they come quickly) we can then be off to Harrisburg for the state seal $$$ and then send papers off to NY for the China embassy seal $$$ and then we will be ready to send out huge pack of expensive papers (Dossier)$$$$ to CHINA!!!!! YAY!!!!  We are praying this will happen before Christmas.  We are also very excited to say that the  MUDLOVE Bracelet and Mug sale went very well. Sarah and her friends raised $462!! Way to go girls!! Our thermometer keeps creeping up. The auction went very well and as soon as we have all items paid and delivered we will add that to the thermometer. We are so thankful for everyone's generosity. Some people have asked how to make a donation. There are several ways listed on the sides of this page. If you have any questions please email me at lang4@hometownu.com We appreciate all your prayers and hope you are as blessed as we are watching God work!!