Opportunities to Share Mei's Story (Nov. 10, 2010)

Email Update Sent to Prayer Warriors:

Hey guys,

I wanted to send you updates on the adoption process while we are here. I cannot access our blog to update it so this will have to do for now. Things are going well. We have Mei now and yesterday we finalized all of the paperwork on the Chinese side of things. Next week is all about getting things ready on the American side of things to get him back home. Thank you to everyone for all of the prayers.

Mei is very playful. He brings a lot of joy to the room! He has been sleeping very well, which is a major blessing on top of so many other blessings! He is very busy as well. Briena will have a partner in crime when we get back as I am sure she will quickly recruit him to join her in her constant mischief around the house! Mei did get a little car sick on the way to the adoption office yesterday, but other than that he is doing pretty well. We could not ask for things to be going any better, but please continue to pray for things to go just as Father wants them to go.

Continue praying that we see and seize every opportunity to share Mei’s story for Abba’s glory. Here are a few of the opportunities we are engaged in that you can be praying about:

- The band Air Supply is staying at our hotel and we met them around the pool last night and spoke with one of their instrumental guys last night at dinner for a little while. I have had the opportunity to share a little of Mei’s story with them and they have put us on the guest list for their concert tonight here in Guangzhou. They also invited us to go backstage after the concert so pray we have the opportunity to share more of Mei’s story with them and brag on how amazing God is.

- Our guide with United States Asian Affairs is not a believer and we are trying to brag on God every chance we get with him too. We are spending a lot of time with him.

- The head basketball coach for the Qatar national team is here (with the team) for the Asian Games. He approached us last night and started a conversation with us. Pray we will have more opportunities to talk with him and to brag on God more.

We have prayed all along that the Lord would use Mei’s story for His glory. I have two opportunities to share Mei’s story for Abba’s glory as soon as we get back to the states, but I never thought we would have this much opportunity while we were here in China. We want to be good stewards of the amazing story Abba is writing through Mei’s journey.