News Flash

After I posted the last update or lack there of, we received an email from our agency.  Our file is progressing.  Here is what they told us.

Our Haiti legal teams tells us that your file is at Presidential Dispensation level (which means we are awaiting the final signature so that it can be reported in the Monitor--Haitian paper and then it will officially be signed out of IBESR).

We are thrilled to see that some progress is being made.  So updated prayer request:  Pray for the president to sign our dossier quickly and for the file to move out of IBESR. 

After our dossier leaves IBESR, it will be sent to parquet (court).

My Funny Boy

My Loving Boy

Giving you all an update today or any day recently is kind of difficult since we have no update.  We have gotten no word from Haiti.  Our dossier has been in IBESR for six months and three weeks.  Jimmy's homecoming seems to be moving further away rather than closer.  We are still skyping weekly with him and enjoy seeing his face and hearing about his week. We can tell that his optimism is waining and he doesn't really understand the reason for it taking so long.  Trying to explain the delay to a teenage boy waiting to come home when you don't even understand it yourself is not the easiest of tasks.

Please pray for God to move our family closer to being united under the same roof.  We were sitting at the table the other day talking.  We were discussing some family that we don't see very often.  Kyndal said "they are like Jimmy.  They are family but we don't really know them."  I am so eager for my children to know each other.  I look forward to the day when they will play, bicker, and just BE together. 

We are in the process of planning a couple of fundraiser events.  Recently we were blessed to receive a large donation.  We are so deeply touched by the generosity.  We are getting so much closer to our goal.  Please stay posted for more information soon.

Mission Sunday

Today our church had Mission Emphasis Sunday.  Along with songs and sermon about missions, we also had scripture readings in several languages.  Scripture about spreading the Word were read in Chickasaw, Spanish, French, Japanese, and Haitian Creole.  Then the congregation read them together in English.  Jimmy agreed to read a scripture and Hunter and Jillian videoed it so we could share it in worship today.  Of course, I am partial to the sound of my child's voice, but all of the readings were beautiful.  I am struck often by the eloquence of scripture but audibly hearing the words spoken in another language was moving.  When Jimmy read, I was moved to tears. 
Up until October 2010, my experience with mission work was small.  I went on a couple of trips in college; and Rob, Rylan, and I went to Japan in 2002 with Let's Start Talking.  However, I don't think my heart had been truly broken for the lost.  When we traveled to Haiti, God broke my heart.  And I will never be the same.  My perspective changed.  I think it changed from the perspective of me, my, and mine to God, His and God's.  I pray my heart will never heal and I will continue to seek His purpose, spread His word, and show His love to His people.

Here is our sweet boy reading.


And here is a video that says it all perfectly.