This morning, our girls had a successful visa interview at the US Embassy.  Their visas will be issued any day now!  From there, our in-country staff will get to work on our exit process prior to our arrival.

Yesterday was our second-to-last Sunday at church without our daughters.  These kinds of milestones really get my heart racing–it’s really that close!  We expect our passports and visas to enter…the girls’ home country…will be delivered by Friday.  I think I’ll be able to breathe a little easier after we have those back.

Owen is doing very well.  Thank you so very much for all of you who prayed for him last week.  That was probably the sickest I’ve ever seen any of my children.  His final meningitis cultures came back negative–Praise God!

Lastly, will you please pray for me?  I’m feeling the stress mount more each day.  We’re still short a rather significant amount of cash and the final stage of bringing our girls home requires so many things to fall into place once we’re over there, it can send a type A into convulsions just thinking about it.  I fully trust the Lord to get us there and to bring all five of us back home but I’m still human, so…

We’re.Almost.There!!

This post is going to be short because I’m exhausted and have a very sick little boy on my hands.  Yesterday, we spent the entire day in the hospital with our youngest.  He had a high fever, splitting headache that wouldn’t let up, and was complaining of neck pain.  He had lots of blood drawn and the results ultimately led to a spinal tap to check for meningitis.  We still don’t really have answers except that it is not bacterial meningitis.  We will know in a few days whether or not it is viral meningitis.  He has been on antibiotics now for 24 hours and is still running a fever and feeling pretty yucky.  His headache returns as soon as his pain medicine wears off every few hours.  We are praying that it is not meningitis and that the Lord will heal him very quickly.

On top of little man’s health stress, we have been made aware of some new in-country fees and unexpected expenses.  At this time, we still need $5,000 to make it back home with our daughters.  We know the Lord is going to provide as He already has for every need up to this point, but it can’t hurt to be honest and make our needs known to our village.

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We ask that you please pray with us for our son’s complete healing, that no one else gets sick during or leading up to our trip, and that God would continue to provide the finances for the last leg of our journey.

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~trusting in Him