Adam and I finally got home on April 30th from our trip to meet our girls. Our trip home was an adventure...we took a few extra plane rides, a whole extra day and we had to get a ride from Dulles to Roanoke instead of flying but we arrived safe and sound and greeted two very excited kiddos...along with some very excited grandparents!
Life has been pretty good since we returned. I had a hard time adjusting to life here without our girls but God has given me his grace to get through this period right now and I am thankful. We have received a lot of pictures and videos of the girls since we have been gone which has helped! We still do not have any new news on the visa suspension...only that they are still planning to begin issuing visas later this year so we are still praying for that :-)
Adam and I had the opportunity to speak to approximately 90 people last Saturday night about meeting our girls and our experiences in the DR Congo. It was a great night and I was so excited to share with so many people!!!
About a month ago, our agency let us know that they are taking another group to the Congo in August and I wasn’t sure if we were supposed to go so Adam and I had been talking about it and we had decided that Adam really could not take off of work but we just couldn’t decide if I should go or not. We really needed to let our agency know if we were going and we just could not make up our minds so finally it occurred to me, I should ask God if he thinks I should go J
One afternoon a few weeks ago, I sat down on the couch during nap time and I started praying asking him if I should go. I asked him if it was wise to spend the money we had left to go back and see them knowing that we may have to pay foster care fees for awhile and I asked God to provide the money for the trip if he wanted me to go. So right after I finished praying, it occurred to me that I had not gotten the mail for the day so I ran outside to get it and there was a card in our mailbox from a friend and I started opening it up as I walked back up the driveway and when I opened it, there was a really long note written in it that I did not even see because there was a check for $1,000 right on top! I literally just stood in the middle of the driveway with my mouth hanging open. She had written inside the card,
"I am not sure what your needs are but God does and he told me to give this to you :-)"
Talk about an answer to prayer! That check was in our mailbox before I even asked him!
So we told our agency I was in and I would be bringing someone with me…I had no idea who that someone would be but I knew God would tell me who so I started praying everyday…throughout the day, God tell me who to take with me and even more importantly, tell that person they need to go! Well as the weeks went by, I asked a few people and they were unable to go so almost two weeks ago on a Sunday night, Adam and I sat down and talked about it. I really had to know who was going because we had to send in our info to get visas or we weren’t going to be able to go so I do what I usually do when I don’t feel like God has answered my prayers…I take matters into my own hands and I start making a list! I texted the first person on my list and I said, hey…do you want to go to the Congo with me? So that person obviously wanted to pray about it so the next morning, I went to bible study just really down…I kept asking God why he wasn’t telling me who to take. Well I sat down at the table with all the other ladies and the leader welcomes us and says, "Lynsey, do you have anything you want us to pray about," so I kind of fumbled a little from being put on the spot and then I told them I needed someone to go to the Congo with me and I explained all that it would entail and asked them to pray God would tell me who to take and tell that person they needed to go. So we went on with Bible study and when it ended a friend, Elizabeth, walked up to me and said, "I think God is telling me I need to go with you!" I was so excited!!! So she talked it over with her husband and they agreed and I told her that the very first thing she needed to do on Tuesday was go get all her shots and get her passport expedited. Well originally, weeks ago, I had told our agency that I was going to go the second week in August and I knew that Elizabeth could only go the first week so I needed to get my hotel reservation changed but when we talked to Papa Xavier at the hotel on Tuesday morning he said all the rooms were booked…we could not go the first week. So I told Elizabeth that and Adam and I talked about it and we decided that we knew God asked me to go and we knew that he told Elizabeth to go with me so we were going to go ahead and spend the hundreds of dollars it would cost to get her shots and passport in faith that God would open up a spot. I really wanted to see him do this. Well Tuesday morning I was just sure he was going to perform a miracle but by Tuesday night I was doubting whether he was going to do it. We had been able to talk to our agency reps who were planning the trip to see if maybe someone had decided not to go and they assured us there was no room. Elizabeth and I talked about it for awhile that night and were both just upset. We just could not understand why he would tell her to go and then not let us go. And at one point, I looked at Elizabeth and I said, "well, it wouldn’t be a miracle if there were any rooms open." Well I went to bed that night very upset and the next morning, Adam woke me up at 6am with his cell phone about an inch from my face saying "Look! Look!" And I said, I" can’t see it! Where are my glasses!" ha ha! So I put my glasses on and he had an email from our agency saying…."there has been a cancellation…do you guys still want the room?" How cool is that!!!! Our God is ABLE !!! We just have to ask him!
I am super excited to be heading back in a month!!! I can't wait to see our girls!
I would love prayer for the following:
-That Elizabeth and I would receive our visas and that all of the travel would go smoothly.
-For both of us and the girls to remain healthy.
-That the girls would remember who I am and that they would begin to attach to me quickly.
-For God to provide his peace and patience for all of us during the trip.
-For God to open our eyes and ears to his plan for our next steps for ministry in the DR Congo.
We will also be collecting powdered baby formula for the next few weeks to take back to the orphanages in Kinshasa. Any brand would be wonderful!
Thank you so much for your prayers and continued support!
Lynsey
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