Joyous days to Prayer Force One!
I have some really great news to share! I want to be overjoyed but I also feel I must "season" the news with careful consideration of promises made in the past. For now let us rejoice that the leader Maggie met with told her to let me know I can adopt all 10. I am not surprised, this is what we asked for and we know that if we ask for anything according to His will, He hears us and will answer us in His timing. I will praise the Lord and believe that as we proceed, that all the "pieces of the puzzle" fit from this point on. I know some, if not all, of you are saying things like, "Wow! Praise God! And This is amazing!
Maggie was very excited and she said the leaders have met many times to discuss this entire situation. They also have read my letters and agree it is best to proceed this way. Let us pray they follow through with the commitments and I am not being "strangled by Red tape" and left for dead. I don't know how they are disclosing this to the kids. I am concerned because the leader has approved the 10 to be moved to an orphanage to process the beginning of paper work. I told Maggie before she went into the meeting that it needs to be clear that the kids will need to know that I know they are being moved. I am sure that the kids will "freak out" if they are moved without them knowing I am aware of it. The kids would think that I will not be able to find them and they would not trust the words of people who have been less than honest to them. I know this would be very difficult to explain to the leader in charge so I came up with a more fitting plan.
I have a small Sony recorder with mini tapes and I will record my voice at the gate of the "protection" center and have the resident leader take the recorder in to let the kids listen, they will then bring it back out to me and give it back to me. They must feel in control and I think this will be accepted by them. The "protection" center doesn't want the kids to see or talk with me until they are moved to an orphanage. I am ok with this plan but I know the kids will need to know I am ok with it. Please pray, I am going with grandma Guo on Wednesday morning to discuss this with the resident leader of the protection center. I know they want to "cover their hide" on any wrong doing to the kids for fear that I may "make a stink about it". Actually, I have no interest in stirring up any more controversy. The kids just need to know uncle Ray is going to get them back and I know where they are going next. The "protection" center only looks to the leaders above them for what to do next. Praise God He has given us "Cyrus" to make a decision in our favor.
I feel a lot better about spending that 350 dollars to change my flight to July 2nd returning to Chicago and also changing my Alaska flight to July 12th. Pray I can get much done these next few weeks. I thank you all so much for prayers and financial support. I am sure this will have expenses but there is also a very real possibility you will all see the kids some time in the near future. Please consider how you can be a help in both prayer and financial support. I know most of you do already so I am "preaching to the choir" with this challenge.
I close with this beautiful Psalm as a tribute to praise the LORD.
Psalm 142 1 I cried unto the Lord with my voice; with my voice unto the Lord did I make my supplication.
2 I poured out my complaint before him; I shewed before him my trouble.
3 When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path. In the way wherein I walked have they privily laid a snare for me.
4 I looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no man that would know me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul.
5 I cried unto thee, O Lord: I said, Thou art my refuge and my portion in the land of the living.
6 Attend unto my cry; for I am brought very low: deliver me from my persecutors; for they are stronger than I.
7 Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy name: the righteous shall compass me about; for thou shalt deal bountifully with me.
Ray and Blaza, Hannah, David, James, Rebekah, Joanna, John John, Sarah, Joseph and little Deborah
Keep the Gold kids in prayer and "Da Boys" and many more orphans to come. Enclosed are two pictures of little Deborah before her cleft palate, cleft lip surgery. Hannah (13 on June 14th) is holding Deborah in one picture. These two pictures have been on "my desktop" to encourage and keep me smiling about the future of all the kids. Praise God.
I have some really great news to share! I want to be overjoyed but I also feel I must "season" the news with careful consideration of promises made in the past. For now let us rejoice that the leader Maggie met with told her to let me know I can adopt all 10. I am not surprised, this is what we asked for and we know that if we ask for anything according to His will, He hears us and will answer us in His timing. I will praise the Lord and believe that as we proceed, that all the "pieces of the puzzle" fit from this point on. I know some, if not all, of you are saying things like, "Wow! Praise God! And This is amazing!
Maggie was very excited and she said the leaders have met many times to discuss this entire situation. They also have read my letters and agree it is best to proceed this way. Let us pray they follow through with the commitments and I am not being "strangled by Red tape" and left for dead. I don't know how they are disclosing this to the kids. I am concerned because the leader has approved the 10 to be moved to an orphanage to process the beginning of paper work. I told Maggie before she went into the meeting that it needs to be clear that the kids will need to know that I know they are being moved. I am sure that the kids will "freak out" if they are moved without them knowing I am aware of it. The kids would think that I will not be able to find them and they would not trust the words of people who have been less than honest to them. I know this would be very difficult to explain to the leader in charge so I came up with a more fitting plan.
I have a small Sony recorder with mini tapes and I will record my voice at the gate of the "protection" center and have the resident leader take the recorder in to let the kids listen, they will then bring it back out to me and give it back to me. They must feel in control and I think this will be accepted by them. The "protection" center doesn't want the kids to see or talk with me until they are moved to an orphanage. I am ok with this plan but I know the kids will need to know I am ok with it. Please pray, I am going with grandma Guo on Wednesday morning to discuss this with the resident leader of the protection center. I know they want to "cover their hide" on any wrong doing to the kids for fear that I may "make a stink about it". Actually, I have no interest in stirring up any more controversy. The kids just need to know uncle Ray is going to get them back and I know where they are going next. The "protection" center only looks to the leaders above them for what to do next. Praise God He has given us "Cyrus" to make a decision in our favor.
I feel a lot better about spending that 350 dollars to change my flight to July 2nd returning to Chicago and also changing my Alaska flight to July 12th. Pray I can get much done these next few weeks. I thank you all so much for prayers and financial support. I am sure this will have expenses but there is also a very real possibility you will all see the kids some time in the near future. Please consider how you can be a help in both prayer and financial support. I know most of you do already so I am "preaching to the choir" with this challenge.
I close with this beautiful Psalm as a tribute to praise the LORD.
Psalm 142 1 I cried unto the Lord with my voice; with my voice unto the Lord did I make my supplication.
2 I poured out my complaint before him; I shewed before him my trouble.
3 When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path. In the way wherein I walked have they privily laid a snare for me.
4 I looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no man that would know me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul.
5 I cried unto thee, O Lord: I said, Thou art my refuge and my portion in the land of the living.
6 Attend unto my cry; for I am brought very low: deliver me from my persecutors; for they are stronger than I.
7 Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy name: the righteous shall compass me about; for thou shalt deal bountifully with me.
Ray and Blaza, Hannah, David, James, Rebekah, Joanna, John John, Sarah, Joseph and little Deborah
Keep the Gold kids in prayer and "Da Boys" and many more orphans to come. Enclosed are two pictures of little Deborah before her cleft palate, cleft lip surgery. Hannah (13 on June 14th) is holding Deborah in one picture. These two pictures have been on "my desktop" to encourage and keep me smiling about the future of all the kids. Praise God.
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