We are still celebrating today!!!

Exciting news!!!
We have received our TA
or travel approval!!!

What does this mean??
We are a step closer to our Sparrow and
bringing her home!

From the email we received last night with the big news…

“I always like to call with this good news, but I didn’t want to wait to tell you.  Congratulations! I have been informed that I will have your Travel Approval tomorrow!  I will be applying for your consulate appointment as soon as possible!  Due to the Thanksgiving holiday, the current first available consulate appointments are the week of December 1st.  A consulate appointment of this week would give you a Gotcha Day of November 24 (we will confirm this prior to scheduling flights) and would require you to be in country the weekend before.   As you know, we cannot guarantee a date at this point, it will all depend on what dates are available when the consulate processes our request.”

We will continue to keep you posted on our travel plans and
new developments as we learn more!
We do plan to post stories and pictures here during our trip and hope
that you all will follow along and pray for us.

At this time could you pray that God would continue to prepare Lucy’s heart for all of the transitions ahead and for all  the rest of us too during this exciting and also difficult time of bringing home our new sister and daughter and also of having to split up and be apart to accomplish all that needs to happen.

We are also hoping to be able to make the trip from Xi’an (where we will receive Lucy) to Baoji where she has lived and her orphanage is located.  It is not a given that we will be able to visit the orphanage or make the trip, and we think it would be helpful to us and to Lucy.  Pray with us that God would make a way?

Thank you for celebrating with us!!
Light in a messenger’s eyes brings joy to the heart,
    and good news gives health to the bones.
Proverbs 15:30