We have GREAT news!

Last Wednesday I was heading out of our last day of Bible Study Fellowship with both kids.  We were on our way to eat lunch with my mom and then Adam was meeting us at the house to go camping for the rest of the week.  I noticed when I got in the car that I had a missed call from Adam and I thought it was kind of weird but just assumed that meant that he wanted to meet us for lunch so I waited until I got the kids all buckled in and then called him back. He answered the phone immediately and said,

"Robin just called with a referral of a two year old little girl!" 

I just kind of sat there for a minute...in shock. 

"WOW!"  "Do you have any other information on her?" 

"Yes!  I just sent you pictures, medical information and the referral report." 

So there I sat, in the car with both kids listening to every detail Adam could remember about his conversation with our agency representative.  I got off the phone and sat there looking at pictures of our little girl sitting in an orphanage half way around the world giving God praise for answering my prayers yet again.  And then, the coolest thing happened!  I looked at the referral report and I saw her name...."E".  People asked us after we named Eli if we were going to keep the "E" theme going.  I laughed and said, we just really liked the names, Eva and Eli, we didn't really think about both of them starting with an "E" but I guess we probably should....we wouldn't want the next one to feel left out.  And God gave us a little girl with an "E" name. 

We headed out of town on our camping trip so excited about all that lay ahead...in the next few days and the next few months.  We decided to tell Eva and Eli over breakfast the next morning and their reactions were so funny!  Eva just kind of looked at her picture and said, "oh good," kind of indifferent at first but then I said, "Eva, aren't you excited you are getting a sister?"  And she said, "Yes, but now Eli will need a little brother."  She cracks me up!  Keep on praying, Eva!

Eli looked at her picture and said, "Sissy!" and Adam and I both just smiled at each other. 

God is good, all the time....ALL the time.  I have repeated this to myself a lot lately.  I am not sure why everything happened the way that it did.  I may never know, but I am trusting God and believing that he has a better plan for us than I could every imagine, Ephesians 3:20.   I have been thinking lately about all that God has done for me.  He saved me in every way.  He has blessed me with a godly husband, two healthy precious children, a home, cars, food in the refrigerator, wonderful family and friends, the promise of eternal life with Him...who am I that he would allow me to have all of this and then selfishly ask him for more?  But for whatever reason, he has blessed us with more... one more little girl. 

In awe,

Lynsey

A Quick Update...

I have so much to write and not much time to do it!!  

We had our yard sale on Saturday and it went great!  I want to thank my mom, Bruce, Roxanne Staufer, Jessica Crumpacker, Elaine & Jim Wymer, Richard Beard, Cindy Jones, Kathy Walker and her daughter's, Emily, Carly and Audry for helping to set everything up, selling it, and cleaning it up when it was all over and my mother in law, Susan for watching the kiddos!  The generosity of our friends and family never ceases to amaze me and I want to thank everyone who donated stuff for us to sell!  We had a ton of stuff again and ended up making $1,906!!!  So we exceeded our goal which I think means that God knows something is going to cost more than estimated :-) 

We are still waiting for a referral and in the meantime we received this e-mail from our adoption agency,

"Dear EAC Congo Families,

As many of you are aware, the Democratic Republic of the Congo Ministry of Interior and Security, General Direction of Migration (Direction Generale d’Immigration, DGM) (DRC) has "temporarily suspended issuance of exit permits to adopted Congolese children seeking to depart the country with their adoptive parents."

We believe, after consultation with our Congolese attorney and other U.S. based adoption agencies which provide services in the DRC, this temporary suspension relates to the investigation of one case and should be resolved shortly.  This current temporary suspension should not affect any current EAC families."

I would really appreciate prayer for this matter to be resolved quickly.  I have seen God work miracles throughout this process and I am praying for him to do this again!

I went to the Christian Alliance for Orphans conference called Summit 9 a week and a half ago and hope to write about that experience very soon.  I learned so much and I need to take a minute to write it all down to share....it was a wonderful experience.  Stay tuned...


Lynsey