Hope, Love, and Grace!

June 6th, 2016

Hello Everyone!!  It has been a crazy few weeks at the Barnett House!!  We are so excited to finally be preparing to leave for China.  I will update you below on all that has happened over the past few weeks.

May 19th:  Article 5 was picked up at the US Consulate in Guangzhou and was couriered to the CCCWA or the China Center for Children's Welfare and Adoption

May 20th:  Article 5 received at the CCCWA

May 24th:  God showed off again big time on this one.  We were told it would be 1-2 weeks.  We were expecting 2 and praying for 1.  We got it in less than a week.  4 days with 2 of those days being a weekend.  We applied for our Consulate appointment today as well.  Our entire trip is based of our appointment at the US Consulate in Guangzhou.  This is were Grace's Visa will be issued allowing her to board the plane back to the US!!

May 25th:  We received confirmation for our Consulate Appointment.

We are so excited that everything went much faster than planned.  We will be leaving for China on June 10th and will have Grace in our arms forever on June 13th!!  The crazy thing is that June 13th is my brother who passed aways birthday.  God is so good!!  He is giving us this amazing gift on his birthday!!

Please keep us in your prayers.  For safe travels to and from China.  For our girls to be OK while we are in China.  For them to feel at peace and enjoy their time here while we are gone.  Please pray for our sweet baby Grace.  We know she is going to grieve and have a hard time in the beginning, but we are praying that she knows she is loved and safe at all times.  Please pray that she will bond faster than normal to both John and I.  That we will be able to communicate the love we have for her despite the language barrier.  We know God has this, but it breaks our hearts to know our sweet girl is going to go through so much loss losing the only life she has ever known.

We will be doing our best to keep everyone updated while we are in China through posts on the blog!! Thank you to everyone for your prayers and support through this journey!!  We would not have made it without you!!