We leave to visit Haiti Saturday June 4th, and it can't seem to get here quick enough! We will be traveling with the same group and helping Mission of Hope, just like last year. However, we are coordinating to spend a couple days with Ooley as well! Ooley can't be taken out of the creche he's in, so we will be staying in his area at a hotel and spending time there at Chances for Children. It is definitely not super easy to coordinate anything when in Haiti, but we have been blessed so much with people who are helping us a lot! Bobby, who Ooley stayed with during the transition from the orphanage to the creche, is helping us yet again! He has arranged a car and driver to transport us, and he will be traveling with us to visit Ooley as well.
All of the documents for Ooley's adoption have been authenticated! We have one last form to apply for, now that the authentication is done. Then the entire packet is complete and it's off to the next step! Our dossier is already being translated, so this will help save time in the process and get it to Haiti quicker. Now that our government recognizes that all our documents are legit, Haiti will do the same process and put their "stamp of approval" on each one. Contacts have been coming out of the woodwork in our favor! Complete God given favor and amazing that we are able to have help offered from people who have ability to encourage the adoption to move a little quicker!
We are still believing to have Ooley home by Christmas of this year! There isn't really a promised timeline that can be offered, but we know God's hand has been all over this! Still amazes us how the funding has played out perfectly each time a big sum of money is due. We are entering the really big amounts at a time now, and it requires faith beyond measure to trust the funds will be there when needed. God has supplied so far, and we know He will continue to do so! Thank you SO much to all of you who have been able to help financially in our adoption process! Words cannot express the feeling of knowing that friends and family are willing to put their hard earned money into helping us bring our son home.
Prayers move mountains. Please continue to pray! It's been comforting and overwhelming to hear of how many people are covering our family in prayer. I don't think a day has gone by that we haven't had at least one person encourage us and tell us their church groups are praying for us. Ooley is doing well, and we know it's because God has lavished him in love and protection. Our Haiti trip is so close that we are struggling to focus on our remaining time here in the U.S. and are counting hours til we can be there! Anxious anticipation!
We will be posting a blog as soon as we can once we get back home. Thanks for your prayers!
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Ooley Has a Pretty Big Fan Club!
WOW, we are overwhelmed by the love and support from friends and even strangers! Even more overwhelmed by how God is working! This last 2 weeks has been crazy amazing! A big thank you to everyone who was able to eat at Harry Bears in Moore during our fundraiser there! We were given 10% of the ticket totals for the tables that mentioned they were eating there to help bring Ooley home, with our total being $215.29!
In that last couple weeks, we have been amazed by the support given! We have been contacted by another restaurant interested in doing a fundraiser night for Ooley. We have been contacted by people who have heard about us from friends and are offering help and support. So thankful that people are spreading the word and more people are joining with us! It's SO much more than just financial support. It's an indescribable feeling to know that other people, some who don't even know us, are praying for our son! To know that people have a place in their hearts for our precious boy is every parent's dream. One thing is for sure, Ooley will not lack people to love on him!
We have wrapped up our documents for our dossier and are finishing up our last piece to turn it all in! What's next? A LOT of pushing papers! Once our dossier is assured to be in correct form, we turn it into the Lt. Governor and they go through and make sure it's all good and put their stamp of approval (cover sheet) on it and return it to us. From there, our documents will clear the U.S. and be translated to Creole for the Haitian government to approve. Once they give us the go and the U.S. confirms that the documents were unchanged, it will be time time bring Ooley home! How long will this take? That's where you come in again! The time isn't necessarily on the U.S. side, although our end does take time. We would like you to join with us in believing that the Haitian government will not sit on our dossier, but will get to it will quick timing and return it in a timely fashion. We have been told they have seen Haiti take as quick as 3-6months up to 18-24 months to process a dossier. As you know, we are believing for that 3month or less range!
We should be turning in our dossier to the Lt. Governor within the next week! Along with the next step comes the next wave of finances to be paid. God has not failed to show up! Our next payment will be $5,000 and the following amounts to be paid will be that amount or more. In the last week, we have had two couples decide to bless us with $1,000 check each. It's so amazing how God works! When it comes time to send a big chunk of money, God provides just in time! Thank you, you know you who are :)
Faith has been a big part of this process for us. To look back and see where Ooley has been and where he is now is incredible! To know that Ooley is being cared for allows us to sleep better at night for sure. We are trusting others to care for our son, but knowing that God holds him in His hand no matter who is around in the physical. We don't have $30,ooo sitting in a bank to pay for an adoption, but when God bonds a family together He provides the way! We have been doing what it takes to make margin in our finances, and it's liberating to not care about physical things anymore! Our son is way more important than having a house full of decorations, dressing in the finest clothes, or driving the best cars. It's been interesting to see the detachment of things we thought we would not get rid of. More interesting that once we started getting rid of things, it's easier to just keep going and get rid of more.
To all the skeptics who told us we were in for a heartache, take a look and see that our God is greater! To the one's who told us there was no way, I hope you now see that God provides for the path He calls us to take! And to those of you who have never wavered in believing with us, thank you! We couldn't make it without all of you continuously lifting us up in prayer and loving on us, as we are mind numbed with all the details to take care of. Words cannot express our gratitude to everyone who has been a part of our process this far.
We can't wait to see Ooley on our upcoming trip to Haiti! We are going with Victory Church and leave June 4th. Trying to coordinate time with Ooley at the orphanage he's at isn't as easy as renting a hotel room and/or car. But we are talking with those who can help us get it figured out and believing for the details to be worked out quickly for our plans. Can't wait to love on our son and see how healthy he is now!
We are trying to figure out how we can plan a time for everyone to meet Ooley without overwhelming him! Looks like Ooley already has a pretty big fan club to welcome him home! Maybe we should make fan club t-shirts.......
In that last couple weeks, we have been amazed by the support given! We have been contacted by another restaurant interested in doing a fundraiser night for Ooley. We have been contacted by people who have heard about us from friends and are offering help and support. So thankful that people are spreading the word and more people are joining with us! It's SO much more than just financial support. It's an indescribable feeling to know that other people, some who don't even know us, are praying for our son! To know that people have a place in their hearts for our precious boy is every parent's dream. One thing is for sure, Ooley will not lack people to love on him!
We have wrapped up our documents for our dossier and are finishing up our last piece to turn it all in! What's next? A LOT of pushing papers! Once our dossier is assured to be in correct form, we turn it into the Lt. Governor and they go through and make sure it's all good and put their stamp of approval (cover sheet) on it and return it to us. From there, our documents will clear the U.S. and be translated to Creole for the Haitian government to approve. Once they give us the go and the U.S. confirms that the documents were unchanged, it will be time time bring Ooley home! How long will this take? That's where you come in again! The time isn't necessarily on the U.S. side, although our end does take time. We would like you to join with us in believing that the Haitian government will not sit on our dossier, but will get to it will quick timing and return it in a timely fashion. We have been told they have seen Haiti take as quick as 3-6months up to 18-24 months to process a dossier. As you know, we are believing for that 3month or less range!
We should be turning in our dossier to the Lt. Governor within the next week! Along with the next step comes the next wave of finances to be paid. God has not failed to show up! Our next payment will be $5,000 and the following amounts to be paid will be that amount or more. In the last week, we have had two couples decide to bless us with $1,000 check each. It's so amazing how God works! When it comes time to send a big chunk of money, God provides just in time! Thank you, you know you who are :)
Faith has been a big part of this process for us. To look back and see where Ooley has been and where he is now is incredible! To know that Ooley is being cared for allows us to sleep better at night for sure. We are trusting others to care for our son, but knowing that God holds him in His hand no matter who is around in the physical. We don't have $30,ooo sitting in a bank to pay for an adoption, but when God bonds a family together He provides the way! We have been doing what it takes to make margin in our finances, and it's liberating to not care about physical things anymore! Our son is way more important than having a house full of decorations, dressing in the finest clothes, or driving the best cars. It's been interesting to see the detachment of things we thought we would not get rid of. More interesting that once we started getting rid of things, it's easier to just keep going and get rid of more.
To all the skeptics who told us we were in for a heartache, take a look and see that our God is greater! To the one's who told us there was no way, I hope you now see that God provides for the path He calls us to take! And to those of you who have never wavered in believing with us, thank you! We couldn't make it without all of you continuously lifting us up in prayer and loving on us, as we are mind numbed with all the details to take care of. Words cannot express our gratitude to everyone who has been a part of our process this far.
We can't wait to see Ooley on our upcoming trip to Haiti! We are going with Victory Church and leave June 4th. Trying to coordinate time with Ooley at the orphanage he's at isn't as easy as renting a hotel room and/or car. But we are talking with those who can help us get it figured out and believing for the details to be worked out quickly for our plans. Can't wait to love on our son and see how healthy he is now!
We are trying to figure out how we can plan a time for everyone to meet Ooley without overwhelming him! Looks like Ooley already has a pretty big fan club to welcome him home! Maybe we should make fan club t-shirts.......
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