LONG OVERDUE!

Friends and family this blog post is way to long overdue! So much has happened since we last shared with you!

Kelly and I were blessed with the opportunity to visit our boys in the DRC in April of this year!

These little boys had our hearts long before we ever met them! This is a journey that the Lord began in us so long ago. We had an amazing visit with them and knew before we ever went home that with things up in the air with their homecoming we would be making a return trip every 6 months until they are on US soil!

Trip two happened a little faster than we expected but my amazing momma and I were able to return to the boys in August!

This trip was amazing, an awful and words just cannot describe it! Seeing my boys for a second time was such a blessing, I am no longer just a random visitor, it was so clear that for them the Lord has made me MOMMA and Kelly DADDY and my mom got to be mama KOKO!

It was so wonderful to see more of their personality, but so heart breaking for my sweet Liam! We were blessed to celebrate his 6th birthday with the FIRST birthday cake he had ever had!!!!!!!! WOW!

It was such a hard trip for this little guy though because he just does not understand why he is not HOME?! Thanks to an amazing friend I did my best to explain to him but his little heart is so broken! and so are ours!


So here we are on October 1, 2014. days after the 1 year suspension was supposed to end, with no end in sight? Do we know what the Lord is doing? NO! Do we trust him fully? this answer hurts... WE ARE TRYING TO! everyday we are walking this road not knowing when our boys will come home. Every day children in the Congo are getting sicker and sicker because of the conditions they are living in. But every day God is writing HIS story! We are lost on this road and do not know when it will end, every day our boys grow up without us feels like eternity. Their sisters ache for them to be here with them to share their childhood with.

But I was hit with this realization the other day:
The Lord calling thousands to his throne for the cause of the fatherless in the DRC! Just a thought, nothing too amazing but struck me in my anger about our situation, who are we to say that God is not going to use these endless road blocks to show his power in an even greater way! He is the God who moves mountains, parts seas, stills storms, heals sick, raises the dead! He can and will bring our children home!


I believe that the Lord is setting the stage to literally part the sea and bring these children home! We that are waiting are at the end of our rope, we are literally at the end of what can be humanly done to bring these children home. Its not just our two boys, there are hundreds of children legally adopted by their families just waiting on a single piece of paper!

So we are begging...would you intercede with us on behalf of these kiddos that the Lord would work in a MIGHTY and POWERFUL way and bring these children home! Would you join us at the alter in prayer for those in decision making power that the Holy Spirit would make himself known in their lives and they would see no other alternative but to send these babies home!

Our prayer is that our babies get to enjoy Thanksgiving 2014 here in their home! Would you please join us in prayer?!

What a great and mighty God we serve! Won't you take a minute to be reminded just who he is?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzqTFNfeDnE

Day of fasting and prayer for the Congo and Adoption

As you know our family has been pursuing the adoption of two little boys from the Congo! We have finalized our adoption, filed all of our paperwork, readied their room, checked all the boxes on every check list, and still our boys are not home! On January 2 we marked one year of pursuing our boys! Every time I consider everything that 2013 meant in the life of the brewer family I can't help but think, and yet how long does our God pursue us!? We are promised:

Romans 8:38-39

New International Version (NIV)

³⁸ For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,^[a] neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, ³⁹ neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

 

 

What an amazing God we serve that has promised that he has gone before us, he goes with us, and he will hem us in from behind!

 

Deuteronomy 31:8

New International Version (NIV)

⁸ The Lord himself goes before you and will be with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged.”

Psalm 139
1 O LORD, you have searched me and you know me. 2 You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. 3 You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways. 4 Before a word is on my tongue you know it completely, O LORD. 5 You hem me in--behind and before; you have laid your hand upon me. 6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain. 7 Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? 8 If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there. 9 If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, 10 even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast. 11 If I say, "Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me," 12 even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you. 13 For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. 14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. 15 My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, 16 your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be. 17 How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them! 18 Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand. When I awake, I am still with you.   

We will celebrate Hank's 3rd birthday on February 1, never did I think that our boys would not be home by now, but we are trusting in God's plan and God's timing! We are walking in faith knowing that they are not with us for a reason!

Jeremiah 29:11-14
¹¹ For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. ¹² Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. ¹³ You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. ¹⁴ I will be found by you,” declares the Lord, “and will bring you back from captivity.^[b] I will gather you from all the nations and places where I have banished you,” declares the Lord, “and will bring you back to the place from which I carried you into exile.”

Currently the Congo has suspended exit letters for all adopted children making it impossible for our boys to come home although they are legally ours! Many families have set today aside to fast and pray specifically for the Congo, and for adoption as a whole.

 

Matthew 18:

¹⁸ “Truly I tell you, whatever you bind on earth will be^[e] bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be^[f] loosed in heaven.
¹⁹ “Again, truly I tell you that if two of you on earth agree about anything they ask for, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven. ²⁰ For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them.”

I would greatly appreciate all the prayer and support we can get! If you are willing to join us would you please pray for the following:

 For adoptions in general...
 Favor
 Peace, wisdom and guidance for all of the "decision makers"
 Pray against any and all plans that the enemy has for adoptions
 Please pray specifically for…
Exit letters to be issued again soon.
 Bordereau Letters to begin to be issued again soon (Many of us call these B letters)
 Passports to be issued again
 Swift and accurate investigations completed and visa’s issued
 Families/Children to pray for specifically…
(Most of these families have completed the adoption of these children in the Congo. They are the legal parents to the children, but are unable to bring them home because of the suspensions.)
 Ada & Jackson
 Agnes & Billy
 Amaya
 Benediction
 Ezra
 Fiston & Marie
 Jerome
 Seth
 Ackler Family
 Brewer Family (Hank & Liam)
 CadmanFamily waiting for their sons
 Campbell Family (Sam)
 Carsrud Family waiting for their son
 Chubb Family waiting for their son
 Clements Family (Elijah)
 Dougless Family (Bienvenue)
 Dreher Family (M & G)
 Gibbs family (Atticus)
 Harlow Family waiting for their son
 Hein Family (Kathy and Bo)
 Hopkins Family (Mimi, Therese, Marie and Generose)
 Houser Family waiting for their little girl
 Kelley Family (Selah)
 Koprowski Family and their 2 little girls
 Krotzer Famliy waiting for their twin girls
 Merklein Family (Elysee and Taya)
 Lagemaat Family waiting for their daughters
 Phillips Family (Suzana & Ezra)
 Siebert Family waiting for their two children
 Spooner Family (Felly and Dimercia)
 Smetana Family (Henry)
 Stephens Family (Jose, Maya)
 Taylor Family (Roland)
 Troxel Family (Elijah & Nalah)
 Wolverton Family waiting for their boys

 Pray for the Congo…

 Peace
 Blessing
 Blessing, protection and restoration for the children and women of Congo
 Blessing, protection, wisdom, guidance, and restoration for the men of Congo
 Protection and restoration of the family unit
 Blessing, wisdom, protection, courage, and support for the leaders
 Pray that a move of God’s love would continue to grow in the nation
 Pray against any and all plans that Satan has for the DR Congo and its beautiful people


 Thank-you for taking the time to pray for this wonderful country and beautiful people!