After 18 hours on airplanes over a 26 hour period, we were all very glad to arrive in Jacksonville International Airport Last night at 9:17pm. Me, Julie, Zach, and Leighanne were ready to be home and sleep in our own beds, drink pure water, eat familiar foods, and see Austin and Jordan for the first… Read More
Praise the Lord we are home with our two new American Citizens! Ben
We are sitting at our gate in Hong Kong waiting to board our flight to Detroit any minute. For anyone who is interested…. our final leg of the flight is Delta Flight 735 from Atlanta to Jacksonville arriving in Jacksonville at 8:44pm. Ben
We arrived in Hong Kong this afternoon. We will eat an early breakfast in the morning, check out, and head across the parking lot to the airport for a 9:45am flight to Detroit. In just 12 hours we will be sitting on an airplane waiting for it to take off for our first of 3… Read More
We completed our consulate appointment this morning around 9:30am. They consulate told us that the visas should be ready tomorrow morning around 10:30am. We are currently scheduled on the 4:56pm train out of Guangzhou to Hong Kong, but our guide is currently trying to get it changed to an earlier departure so we won’t get… Read More
Woo hoo — both TB tests were negative so no chest x-rays required! We have a meeting with our guide tonight to get all of the paperwork ready for tomorrow morning’s Consulate Appointment. Ben
Okay–So I know we have been kind of leaving pretty quick messages, but we have very busy. When we haven’t been transitioning, we’ve been at appointments. BUT today we were able to have a pretty easy day. We began our day at church on Shamian Island. Yes–Finally a chance to worship!! The service we attended… Read More
Praise the Lord! I don’t like that we had to give even 4 shots, but Praise the Lord only 4 were required for Sara so it wasn’t nearly as bad as it could have been. They excluded a series of shots because her blood-work showed that she had the antibodies which indicated that she had had the… Read More
Ok–a quick post to let you know we arrived in Guangzhou. Our flight was delayed and we are wiped out. Functioning on little sleep. Everyone is a little grumpy. Yuck! We are about to walk out the door for the medical appointment–if you are up–please pray for mercy on shots for Songyan. Pray for us… Read More
Woo hoo! We just received SongYan’s passport today so we are completely official at this point. We leave in 2 1/2 hours to head to the airport for Guangzhou to work on the American side (visas). Please pray for SongYan especially in Guangzhou — We have the medical appointments on Saturday in Guangzhou and we… Read More
