Pray Pray Pray!

As our family prepares to board a plane on Friday, we want to take a chance to express our deep appreciation for your love, prayer and support through our adoption journey thus far, but especially over the last three months. We are humbled by God’s grace through each of you in the ways that you have come along side us and encouraged us. We have been amazed to watch how God has used His people to help us meet a goal that we thought was insurmountable. 

We are truly in need of your prayers. Many of you that have adopted overseas know better than we do how to pray for us, our children and Bo as we go and return home.  Please join us and boldly petition our loving God on our behalf. Below are a few specific prayer requests that we hope you can lift up while we are in China.

Travel – we fly out early Friday morning and three flights later (after a brief stop in Dallas and one night in Hong Kong), we will land in Bo’s province. Pray for all things travel and especially for our little ones on the long 17 hour flight.

Health  - pray for all of our health while we travel. Graham has an ear infection, so please pray for swift healing ahead of our Friday flights.

Gotcha Day – we will meet Bo on Monday March 6^th. Please pray for this day to be as peaceful as possible. Pray for our hearts and for wisdom to know how to best meets Bo’s physical needs.

Bonding – pray for us all to bond well with Bo, but especially Jennifer.

Orphanage visit – on Thursday we will drive out to Bo’s orphanage. We expect this to be a difficult day, but pray that it would be a sweet time for our family to develop memories of Bo’s time at the orphanage and to get to know his care takers.

Medical Appt – pray for Bo’s medical appt. Pray for his health to be strong.

US Consulate Appointment – pray that all of the paperwork required for Bo’s Visa approval will be correct.

Abigail and Kayleigh - One of the reasons we wanted to bring our girls with us was to allow them to experience a different culture and see firsthand the urgent spiritual needs of so many in China. Pray that through the many experiences and encounters on this trip that even now their little 4 and 6 year old hearts would be able to recognize some of those needs in this different context. Pray that God would birth in them even now a desire to one day impact the nations for Christ. Pray that our girls and Graham would quickly bond with Bo.

Most of all, pray that Christ will be glorified as we travel to meet and bring home our son.

Thank you for your prayers!

Josh and Jennifer