Dear Family and Faithful Supporters,
Merry CHRISTmas!!!
What a beautiful time of year where we get to celebrate the birth of our Lord
and Savior! We pray that you are all doing well this holiday season and that
you are able to take time out of your busyness to remember the reason for the
season J!!
We wanted to
update you on the progress of our adoption process as well as share some prayer
requests!! As a reminder, you can always check out our blog and even sign up to
receive posts via e-mail at www.tntadoption.blogspot.com
First of all, WOW!!! Thank you to each and every one
of you who came and/or helped out with our adoption fundraiser, “The China
Experience!” We had a great turn out of over 250 adults and children, and we
are so thankful to have raised over $6000!!!
In addition to our
fundraiser, we have now officially entered “Stage 2: The Dossier Submission and
Waiting” aka, the “WAIT!!!” All our paperwork is now in China, and we just wait
for our agency to match us with our daughter… It could happen any day, or even
months from now (of course our prayer is sooner rather than later)J. Once we are matched
we will enter the final stage which is preparing for travel and actually traveling
to China. We are continually learning to wait for God’s perfect timing and rest
in the fact that He already knows who our daughter is!!
We also are super
excited about Tiffinie’s CD’s. We still have some available and would love for
you to have one! They are not for sale, but rather as a gift to those of you
who have helped fund our adoption. The first CD is called, “For Such a Time as
This,” and is a praise and worship album, and the second is called, “A Precious
Gift,” which is a Christmas album. We pray that they would be a blessing to you
as you have blessed us!! For more details on where or how to donate, and how to
get the CD’s, please let us know. We have them available at the church, and for
those of you in the So. Cal area, my family has some available. We continue to
trust God to provide the rest of the funds needed for this adoption! We
estimate we need roughly $10,000 more.
Many of you may
also know the Liu family in our church. We would like to extend the invitation
to a Pancake Breakfast sponsored by the Orphan Care Ministry to help raise the
rest of the funds needed to travel to bring their son Ty home from China!!!
What a great, tangible way to help… we all need to eat breakfast J!! The breakfast will
be in the church gym on Sunday morning December 30… Make sure you stop on by!!
We are rejoicing with them as they will be traveling to China in January to
bring him home!!
Lastly, here are a
few things you can be praying for:
-Continued
peace and patience as we wait for our daughter
-Wisdom
and guidance as we review the file (when the time comes)
and that a perfect
match would be found.
-That
God would continue to provide the funds needed
-That
God would stir in the hearts of His people to be motivated towards action
-That
everything will go smoothly with our paperwork in China
-Preparation
for our family for whatever “special need” our daughter may have
We continue to be
humbled and stand in awe of all that has happened in the last 8 months to help
an orphan girl be joined together with her forever family! “Thank you” seems so
inadequate, but we truly are so grateful for everything you all have done! As
2012 comes to a close we continue to praise the Lord for His many blessings!
May we keep our eyes fixed on Him as we begin 2013!
With joy and love,
Tim, Tiffinie, Jeremy, Drew, and baby girl Nielsen
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