Our Mountain Moving God

What man said could take up to 90 days, God allowed to happen in just 21 days!


We have it ~ or have at least officially heard the approval is in the mail! Our I800A (immigration) approval that is. We have cleared the first big hurdle necessary to bring Jonathan Futing home. We are praising God as this is truly an answer to prayer. So what happens next:


1. Once we get the approval in the mail (sometime next week) yes, I will be stalking the mailman once again. We will drive the approval along with all of our other paperwork to Harrisburg to have the State Seal put on it. We will then find somewhere to make 4 copies of about 50 pages of documents. We will then overnight it to the adoption agencies headquarters in Michigan.

2. The Michigan office will then review everything. They will then send it to the Chinese Consulate in New York City to be authenticated. This can take 2-4 weeks.

3. Once Michigan gets our paperwork back from New York City, they will then send it to China! (I'm praying this happens by the middle of April)

4. China translates our paperwork and gives us a log in date. From there it will be about 5-7 months till we travel.

As you can see it is basically a hurry up so you can wait process. We are hoping to hear within the next 2-4 weeks that we are pre-approved to adopt Jonathan Futing. We submitted our Letter of intent earlier this week which was then sent to China. The pre-approval just means that yes, China will consider all of our paperwork once submitted and they will consider us to be Jonathan's parents.

Thank you to everyone who prayed with us for a quick I800A approval. God has heard and answered our prayers. This quick approval does make our goal of traveling by the end of 2009 seem achievable. BUT, we need lots more prayer as anything can suddenly slow down this process. So much of this is out of our hands, but we know God is holding us, Jonathan Futing and this whole situation in His hands.