Greetings dear "Prayer Force One" team,
I begin by rejoicing that I received word that the children have received "hu kou's", which are the household registration certificates needed give official documentation for the children. With this certificate, I can begin to proceed toward adopting them. Please pray. I had Maggie contact the Civil government and they once again said the children have not been moved to the State run orphanage because it is being remodeled. They did tell Maggie of the official certificates and did not mention anything else. I am trusting this is all good news and we are now able to proceed with other forms of paper work.
As you all know from a previous email update, I have many forms to fill out. I have been thinking through the whole process and really need your prayers and support to know how to fill out the forms. My situation is indeed unusual and yet it has been from the very beginning with the rescue and raising of these lovely orphan children. It is a huge victory for me to know the government has gone through much adjusting to not only provide paper work on my kids but also for all orphans across China and even "second" children of families and abandoned children.
It is no mystery that all this has happened since my horrible days of interrogation and media craze from late November of 2014 through the eventual overturning of the original news paper story on May 12th, 2015. Like that one reporter who sided with me early in December 2014, he entitled his article " Why is Ray being painted black when he has done so much good?" The article made it clear that I not only was not in China when Phoebe was injured, but rather should be thanked for bringing to light the issue of "non existent" orphans and abandoned children who would not have a chance of getting adequate help without documentation. I have yet to meet this reporter, but NOW his article is one of the only articles you can find in Chinese online. All the garbage lies and cropped pictures have since been removed from both of the main search engines in China. It is very obvious to me, they want to "clean up" the story and this is all ok with me. It is quite humorous though to see it go from me being a murderous abuser of an 8 year old orphan girl to one who has done so much good. I am not saying they are exonerating me but at least the story can "blow over" and we can get on to helping the kids. Let's pray these are their thoughts. I am sure it was a big embarrassment to many who chose to buy into the false narratives. I know folks, it is not like it doesn't happen here too but to see how far our prayers and hard work has taken us, it truly is God's grace. Amen?!
I had Maggie call the Civil government again and inform them that I am working on the adoption process. I am at a cross roads as I really need wisdom and grace to fill out the forms. You can see how difficult the questions would be for me to fill out. Pray for me. Most of the questions are easy, it is the "document-able income" part that I struggle with. The strange twist to this is that I have provided for the 11 children for many years with the best of apartments, food, education and the finest of health care with the best of doctors and took them through a total of 16 surgeries. All were successful at that. It is sad that Phoebe died of other complications (at least that is the official cause of death) but now I have to prove I can provide for their needs and qualify for adopting them. WACAP supervisor for foreign adoptions was taken back by my unusual situation but did allow me to proceed with filling out forms. I am not sure how to proceed at this point but I do know they are looking for me to prove I can financially provide for the 10 children's needs. One of the things I chuckle most about is how the protection center director stated to me that they could never provide the huge breakfast meals I used to give the children and also there were other things she told me she could not provide as well. Oh the political correctness of this world and how spiritually incorrect it all is!
On my website this phrase is mentioned by my team of financial advisors and I wanted to highlight it and ask you all to pray God will raise up someone to "step up to the plate" and provide a "home run" for the kids. I don't understand how these forms of giving work but here is the phrase(below). It is mentioned on the website in the "donate" section.
(We would enjoy any opportunity to discuss creative giving to the ME Foundation through your Estate Planning or special gifts such as real estate, life insurance or an annuity. )
I am sure the bottom line of the forms that mention "total assets" is critical in the approval process for me to proceed with adoption and even be approved to purse the 10. Please pray and do what you can to help.
I am a big lover of eagles in Alaska, after all we have half of the world's eagle population. I am not a big fan of ravens and yet we know that God loves and supplies even for the ravens. We are surely more important than the ravens??!!
"Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap; which neither have storehouse nor barn; and God feedeth them: how much more are ye better than the fowls?" AKJV
Ray and the 10 as well as many more orphans God will use us to provide for.
I begin by rejoicing that I received word that the children have received "hu kou's", which are the household registration certificates needed give official documentation for the children. With this certificate, I can begin to proceed toward adopting them. Please pray. I had Maggie contact the Civil government and they once again said the children have not been moved to the State run orphanage because it is being remodeled. They did tell Maggie of the official certificates and did not mention anything else. I am trusting this is all good news and we are now able to proceed with other forms of paper work.
As you all know from a previous email update, I have many forms to fill out. I have been thinking through the whole process and really need your prayers and support to know how to fill out the forms. My situation is indeed unusual and yet it has been from the very beginning with the rescue and raising of these lovely orphan children. It is a huge victory for me to know the government has gone through much adjusting to not only provide paper work on my kids but also for all orphans across China and even "second" children of families and abandoned children.
It is no mystery that all this has happened since my horrible days of interrogation and media craze from late November of 2014 through the eventual overturning of the original news paper story on May 12th, 2015. Like that one reporter who sided with me early in December 2014, he entitled his article " Why is Ray being painted black when he has done so much good?" The article made it clear that I not only was not in China when Phoebe was injured, but rather should be thanked for bringing to light the issue of "non existent" orphans and abandoned children who would not have a chance of getting adequate help without documentation. I have yet to meet this reporter, but NOW his article is one of the only articles you can find in Chinese online. All the garbage lies and cropped pictures have since been removed from both of the main search engines in China. It is very obvious to me, they want to "clean up" the story and this is all ok with me. It is quite humorous though to see it go from me being a murderous abuser of an 8 year old orphan girl to one who has done so much good. I am not saying they are exonerating me but at least the story can "blow over" and we can get on to helping the kids. Let's pray these are their thoughts. I am sure it was a big embarrassment to many who chose to buy into the false narratives. I know folks, it is not like it doesn't happen here too but to see how far our prayers and hard work has taken us, it truly is God's grace. Amen?!
I had Maggie call the Civil government again and inform them that I am working on the adoption process. I am at a cross roads as I really need wisdom and grace to fill out the forms. You can see how difficult the questions would be for me to fill out. Pray for me. Most of the questions are easy, it is the "document-able income" part that I struggle with. The strange twist to this is that I have provided for the 11 children for many years with the best of apartments, food, education and the finest of health care with the best of doctors and took them through a total of 16 surgeries. All were successful at that. It is sad that Phoebe died of other complications (at least that is the official cause of death) but now I have to prove I can provide for their needs and qualify for adopting them. WACAP supervisor for foreign adoptions was taken back by my unusual situation but did allow me to proceed with filling out forms. I am not sure how to proceed at this point but I do know they are looking for me to prove I can financially provide for the 10 children's needs. One of the things I chuckle most about is how the protection center director stated to me that they could never provide the huge breakfast meals I used to give the children and also there were other things she told me she could not provide as well. Oh the political correctness of this world and how spiritually incorrect it all is!
On my website this phrase is mentioned by my team of financial advisors and I wanted to highlight it and ask you all to pray God will raise up someone to "step up to the plate" and provide a "home run" for the kids. I don't understand how these forms of giving work but here is the phrase(below). It is mentioned on the website in the "donate" section.
(We would enjoy any opportunity to discuss creative giving to the ME Foundation through your Estate Planning or special gifts such as real estate, life insurance or an annuity. )
I am sure the bottom line of the forms that mention "total assets" is critical in the approval process for me to proceed with adoption and even be approved to purse the 10. Please pray and do what you can to help.
I am a big lover of eagles in Alaska, after all we have half of the world's eagle population. I am not a big fan of ravens and yet we know that God loves and supplies even for the ravens. We are surely more important than the ravens??!!
"Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap; which neither have storehouse nor barn; and God feedeth them: how much more are ye better than the fowls?" AKJV
Ray and the 10 as well as many more orphans God will use us to provide for.