We have a date!

This week we have gotten the news we have been waiting to hear for some time now. On Thursday we received a call from our agency saying we had been given travel approval. The actual documents should arrive here the middle of next week. The next step was for our agency to apply for our appointments at the US consulate. Friday afternoon they sent us an email confirming our appointments with the consulate.  We are excited to know that May 6th we will hold our daughter for the first time. We still have some details to work out with travel, but we have a good idea of how the trip should go. I have been amazed as we have journeyed down this road and watched the hand of God at work. We are thankful and praising God that we have a date. We are also thankful for truths like these, "A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in his holy dwelling place. God sets the lonely in families, he leads out the prisoners with singing; but the rebellious live in a sun-scorched land." Psalm 68:5-6

We are excited and eagerly anticipating the day our family will be together. We are thankful for the prayers and encouragement of many of our family and friends. We hope that you will continue to pray for Addie and us as we make final preparations to bring her home. We have a few more weeks to wait, but as we wait we will continue to worship and praise God, who is the father to the fatherless.