Bringing Brenna home~ ;-)

Praising God today for His many blessings.

Email Update from AMY:

Hello, everyone! We are writing with great news, having already been to the oath ceremony and have Brenna's visa in hand!!! This morning the consulate called us to tell us that they had great news--the encrypted files were finally unlocked overnight--in fact, someone who wasn't officially assigned to our case worked on it 'til 2/3 in the morning US time last night. God is so good and moved in the hearts of MANY to get our paperwork done!! Today we went to the Consulate for the ceremony where we met the director of adoption dept and found out more. She recognized Brenna just from me holding her! She said she'd been drawn to our case b/c of a friend of hers who'd adopted 5 years ago and had a similar experience with expecting a healthy baby and finding a sick child. She said untold numbers worked to help and that it was amazing how fast everything was done. For the oath ceremony, we joined about 30 other families in pledging our love and care for Brenna; we all cried of course! Our sweet girl celebrated by cooing and staring in my eyes for the whole bus ride back to the hotel and by giving us her first real giggles tonight from daddy being silly. So awesome! We are in love! We stare at our two children and wonder why we are so blessed.

I can never express on behalf of our family how much your prayers, emails, concern, love, etc, have meant to us. You have been J's hands and feet across the ocean! Please pray us home--here are specifics:
1. for us all to be seated in bulkhead together with a bassinet for Brenna
2. for the cyclone coming to HK not to affect our flight Friday
3. for Brenna's fever to break and not return the whole flight home; she has a seemingly chronic fever right now. Please pray against any diarrea, too and for her ot be at peace

We leave Guangzhou tomorrow at 2 for Hong Kong. Our flight leaves Fri morning and we get into B'ham at 8pm central time. Can't wait to see and catch up with everyone!!

Love, love,
Amy
Praise to the Lord, who is mighty to save! He is everlasting Father, Prince of peace, wonderful counselor, mighty in battle, intimate in His care and compassion.