Please pray for us....

Life as we know it is really about to change forever!
       
            We are so excited...and right now I don't think any of us are nervous or having 2nd thoughts. We are pretty well ready to take flight and embrace what God has for our family. We are in awe when we see where we are today, because we have covered a lot of ground in the last 17 months and we have seen God move some pretty impossible mountains. I hope and pray that for the rest of our lives not one of us will ever doubt that God is the God of the impossible and there is nothing that is to hard for Him!

This is the Lord's doing, it is marvelous in our eyes.

Psalm 118:23

              We are so thankful for all of you that have so prayed for us, encouraged us, and given so generously to help us in our endeavor to bring this little girl into our home. This is not finished yet, we are just stepping into the next stage of the journey, but it is a very critical one...and it brings us to the final stage of bringing her officially home. We have heard some exciting news from Ecuador and it makes us that much more exciting to meet our new "baby" sister.

              However as you can well imagine meeting your new family at the age of nine cannot be the easiest things, so please pray for and continue in prayer for our beautiful Miss A! She is an inspiration to us all and has already become such a part of our family. We are trusting God that she will come to know that. Please pray that she will bond with us, and us with her.

                We know what we have entrusted to God and we have seen how He has provided greatly! Please pray for a quick and speedy legal process in Ecuador, safety traveling and wisdom and understanding through the whole process.

              Also pray that God would use this experience greatly in each of our lives, that it would used for the glory of Christ in our individual lives and as a family. Pray that the relationships that we establish there, though they may be fleeting, pray that they would have an eternal impact.

             And in all these things pray that God will be glorified, pray that the Gospel will be lifted up, and Jesus Christ will be praised.

One Last Update!

With one week left till travel time I will give you a final update on Harmony's Tag-a-Bag Fundraiser.

Once again the Lord truly blessed, Harmony has been blessed beyond her wildest imagination (and she has quite an imagination.)  She only needs $13.00 more to reach her goal.

In less than six weeks time she has raised almost $650.00.  She has done most of it herself with the help of Brianna or I taking her places.

Waiting to pack her suit case.

An Update on Travel

An update on traveling.... the waiting is coming to an end, traveling is in our sights. Harmony's bag has some room left for signatures, she has not reached her goal but she is "OH SO CLOSE" She only needs about $170 more to reach her goal. Thank you everyone who helped out. Please continue to share this post for her. Help her reach her goal!

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Winding Down on the Fundraising

It has been quite a year and a half.  Everyone has been such a big help and support.

During this time Harmony has started her business called "A Sisters Love".

Well she has really been putting her all into making crafts and going to craft shows (good thing she likes crafting.)  

Now as we are preparing to go to Ecuador she really would like to go and meet her sister first hand and with the help of her sister Nicole she got an idea to help raise the money to be able to go to Ecuador and see orphans and how they live. It has become her mission!

Tag A Bag

You pay any amount of a donation and you get to sign the bag she will be taking to Ecuador.

Austin was the first to sign.

He was a little scared to write on the suitcase but we reassured him is was perfectly ok.

 

 As time has gone on she has been getting a lot of signatures.  As many of you know Harmony is very devoted to this adoption so she loves sharing with all she meets.

4th of July Craft Show

Natasha was the first to do tag a bag via pay pal, so Brianna did the honors.

 Harmony's goal is to be able to pay for half her ticket.

So if you are interested in joining her reach her goal ($650.00)

just call of send a message or you can use pay pal on our blog, you can also pass along and share with others.... we will keep you posted!  At the current time she is almost half way to her goal.

We have been assigned!!!

With great rejoicing, anticipation and thankfulness we announce that our family has been officially assigned to adopt Miss A! The road is not over yet, but we are yet one step closer to bringing this little girl into our lives.

I speak for us all when we say we are so excited to make this little girl part of our family, but I think through this long, heartbreaking process God has taught us to simply see the joy in the journey..... Our crowing joy won't be the day we all meet her and hold her, nor the day she shares our last name, not even the day she come's home..... but we are trusting God that one day we will look back and be able to see how God slowly and carefully took the life of a little girl and redeemed it through the love of a family that He had been preparing for her.

So today we simply say thank you God for this journey and path you have brought us on, because you have done so much in our live and we know that you are not done yet.......

So please continue to pray with us and for us as we start making plans to be in Ecuador, as the details are worked out and as this little girl will soon be introduced to our family through pictures and videos. These may all seem like more little details in this whole process but they are HUGE and we pray that God will be in each one.

It is both scary and exhilarating as we keep moving forward on this journey, from buying clothes and things for Miss A, answering the questions our small nephews, looking forward to what is ahead and enjoying the days that we have left before our family grows.

I'm going to steal from my own facebook post here....

I can not wait to hold this little girl again and call her sister! Its so exciting to see God working and we are so excited to see what God has in store for her and our family. She will soon become the 9th and youngest Velie child, the 1st adopted sibling and our family will become multi-racial. Praise the Lord!

WAITING.........

We have sent all our paper work in since last fall sometime and we have been waiting 

ever since... oh we here things... but not what we were hoping to hear.  But the Lord is

always there reminding me.. In My time.  And that helps to carry me through till the next 

week, and then we start all over.  I am a slow learner.  During this time of waiting we have

been busy with various other things and blessings.

 Hailey Joy Brainard was born in Oct.  Grandma was a little late, but oh so blessed.

We were blessed with the gift of some tickets for the Show Hope Concert in Nov.

Blessing come in all different shapes and sizes (a brand new fridge was a gift of love from some very 

dear friends)

Christmas... we thought we might be gone this year, but the lord had other plans and we had a very blessed time.

Waiting comes in different forms... waiting for birth.

Waiting for the Adoption.

The end result for the birth was a beautiful baby girl.

Naomi Lynn Velie (a very proud grandma)

And we are still waiting at this current time.  We are waiting to get assigned.

Merry Christmas!!

We have seen God perform many miracles over the past year in our lives...  But the wonder of all miracle is still that Christ would come to earth and be born in a lowly manger for us!  We know that He came to earth for us, so that we may have life and have life more abundant... We know that He is the Savior of the World, and we are so thankful for the special time of year to remember the events that happened over 2,000 years ago but are still changing history every day. He has given to us salvation full and free, He has given us hope and forgiveness, each and everyday is filled with His goodness and blessings 

So from our family to yours, we pray that you have a wonderful and blessed Christmas Day!

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