We have our RA!!!!!!!!!!!!

Waiting for a child you know is yours is harder than I even imagined it would be. It has been about two months since we sent our EA (Electronic Acceptance) to China, requesting that Jadon become our son. Today, around one o'clock I received a call from our family coordinator stating that our RA (Referral Acceptance) arrived from China. What this means is that we now know that Jadon will be home in a very short time!!! We should receive the RA paperwork in the next couple of days and will have yet something more that we need to sign and return. Once our agency receives the paperwork from us China will be contacted and the orphanage will be given permission to inform Jadon that he has a family waiting for him. (This is so encouraging for my heart. I have grieved him not being able to know!)

Our next step is to wait for a TA (Travel Approval) to come from China. At that point we will be free to travel to get him. Our agency guesstimates that we will probably travel between mid- to late April. I am so excited I can hardly stand it!!! Alan may be right...he will be on three different contintents within a month!!!

Please pray for our continued perseverance in the process. We still have over a month to wait until we will be able to hold him! Also be praying that God will provide the money necessary to complete the adoption. We have some monies available in our Eternal Family account with our agency (AWAA), but it is not enough for travel and for all the final expenses our family needs to complete the process. We estimate that we are still around $7000 short of what is needed. As we have prayed we have felt assured that God has in mind how He will provide....we just don't know it yet!! We are currently working with our church to make arrangements for a support mechanism for this--stay tuned!!