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

We had a wonderful day today sightseeing, but we got back later than normal and are trying to get packed up so we will try to blog about it tomorrow after we get to Guangzhou and get settled. Ben

We just got word from our guide that Sara’s paperwork has been corrected and she has it.  We are still waiting on the passport, but we didn’t expect to get it until tomorrow anyway so we are back on track.  Thank you for your prayers. Ben

You know when you were a little child and every story ends in happily ever after? Well that is not reality.  Reality is what happens AFTER the happy event. I don’t want to come off upset, or unhappy–I’m NOT any of those things. I am new mom who is living in this new reality that… Read More