Wednesday, October 1, 2014

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?

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