EXPEDITE issued!

I got the email last week (Thursday September 8th) that China has issued a medical expedite for the remainder of our adoption! What does that mean?! That means, they feel that the boys medical condition warrants a need for them to get home soon. They will process and approve our last steps quicker than normal so I can travel soon. How soon? As soon as 4-8 weeks, give or take a bit! WOW! 

We are super excited knowing the boys will be home soon. We are so grateful that they will be able to get the medical care, check ups, surgery, and therapies they need. Not to mention the unconditional love of a family! They will become loved sons, brothers, cousins, nephews, grandsons, and friends! They will go to church and learn about Jesus! SO EXCITING! 

There is so much to do and so little time. I don't know where to start. Bedroom rearranging, clothes to wash and hang, bedding to buy, car seats to buy and install, doctor appointments to schedule, screenings to schedule OK, I dont want to think about anymore! Ill just make a list and check it off as it gets done. Kind of like with giving birth, you can be so ready but dont really know exactly when they will arrive. Same with adoption, I can keep working away and may get a call in 2-3 weeks that says hey, go get your boys...or it may be 6-8 weeks. Either way...they are coming home! 

We are still in major financial need. We are over half way there with fees, but now the fees will start coming to us quicker as we will be moving along quicker. The most expensive part is travel, but it is 100% necessary. China requires a 2 week stay, 1 week in their providence and 1 week in Guangzhou, where the US Embassy is. At this point, I estimate we are around $24,000-28,000 short of completing the adoption, including travel. It ALL must be paid before I can go get them. 

Can you please pray for us, pray the finances are there as needed, we do not want to slow anything down because of money. Pray for us to be prepared to embrace the boys, to help us understand how to help them with their medical challenges, language barriers and fitting into our family. Pray for the boys, pray they remain healthy, pray the Lord prepares them for this huge transition in their lives. They will soon be taken from all they know and be given to a strange woman who talks differently, looks and smells differently and lives somewhere far far away. While this is a very happy time for us, this can be very traumatizing for the boys.  

If you can and would like to help us out financially, you can make a donation to our PayPal account, we get 100% of your donation thru here and 100% of it is going towards our adoption expenses. https://www.paypal.me/PaulAdoption 

You can also send or drop off a donation to our bank. If sending a check, please write it out to Paul Family Adoption and put Brock & Beck Paul in the memo line. Our banks address is:
First Federal Savings & Loan
800 West Lincoln Avenue
Charleston, IL 61920

Thank you!