"Wear Your Shirt & Pray Day"

Tomorrow is our first "Wear your Shirt & Pray Day" - Thursday, October 6th.  We will be leaving tomorrow morning for Kansas City and will be doing our FBI fingerprinting.  We decided to make the most of our trip and stay a couple nights to celebrate our 10th wedding anniversary which is October 13th.  What an adventure those ten years have been.  I feel very blessed!  I have to laugh a bit because at one time my dream was to go to Hawaii for our tenth anniversary.  That seems kinda lame when you think of going to Africa to bring home your son!!  :-D

I still have lots of extra shirts that I really, really, need to sell.  So if you would still like one please let me know!!

Prayer Requests:

•  Sending in our i600 today.  Please pray that our paperwork goes through smoothly and ends up in capable hands.  The timing of this paperwork is crucial to allowing us to travel before the end of the year.

•  Pray for safe traveling mercies to and from Kansas City.

•  Pray for Zalen "Moise" and the children and care takers at AFDECO.

•  Continue to pray for God's direct interference in the upcoming elections.  The results of this election will also directly affect our adoption process.  Pray that God's hand will be mighty and direct this country to healing and peace.

• Our agency director and a few other families will be traveling mid-October to bring home their children.  Please pray for them.  My director is taking a photo book for me to show to Zalen Moise.  It will be the first time he gets to see our faces. 

I also wanted to share this video from One Small Step.  The orphanage that is featured in this video is where we are adopting from.  Helene is the one who started the orphanage where my son is from.  One Small Step is a great organization who has the goal of making the orphanages they assist self-sustainable.  Until that self-sustainability becomes a reality, they help orphanages with the funds for operating costs: rent, building maintenance, food, clothes, mosquito nets, transportation and medicine.
  They also help raise funds for the children to go to school.  You can sponsor a child through their organization.  A year of schooling is only about $160.00.