Fun Morning Moment

So this morning I was checking my email and I clicked on one from my dad that said something about the #1 hit on the day you were born. I thought it might be kind of fun to see how it related to me or if I even knew it. So you go to this website http://www.joshhosler.biz/NumberOneInHistory/SelectMonth.htm and click on the month and then the day and it gives you all the songs that were at #1 on your birthdays. So I scrolled down and recognized quite a few and several that have had special meaning to me over the years, and then I found my birth year.

Ready...the song was:

Africa by Toto

This made me smile so big. To some this may seem like a silly coincidence, but I know it is God who gives you those fun little nudges. It is a good reminder that on the very day I was born God new that my heart would be called to Africa. The song is a little vague and silly, but I do like the chorus...

Chorus:
It's gonna take a lot to drag me away from you
There's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do
I blessed the rains down in Africa
Gonna take some time to do the things we never had

I feel like this fits well for our adoption :) Just wanted to share my fun moment with you all. You should check out your song and see if there is any cool meaning in it for you.

Prayer for a friend's Father

As we have seen in the past our AGCI families and their friends and families are incredible prayer warriors, and we need to call on them now. Many of you know C & R from the blog sites, well she and her family need prayer. She called me this morning and asked that I post this for her since she doesn't have access to a computer right now.

Her father is in the hospital and is unconscious and they are keeping him that way right now. They said that only 10% of his heart is working and they don't know how much brain function he will have when and if he wakes up due to lack of oxygen. The doctors said the chances of death are higher than life right now, but C is asking that we pray for a miracle and God to work his healing. Check her blog later today because I think her husband might be posting more about it on their blog this afternoon. I just ask that we rise up and support her family in this time of fear and uncertainty.

The road we will travel

This is a picture of the road we will walk from our hotel in Adis Ababa to Hannah's Hope (our orphanage). Many people have posted this photo on their blogs and then I've watched them walk it and come home with their children. It seems so unreal that one day we too will walk that road. Until then I will wait as patiently as I can trusting that God has our little guy in his care.

Update

We got our bi-weekly update from AGCI today and there was a lot more movement of referrals than I thought there would be! It is hard to say weather or not this movement affected our number, since I don't know if these families were on the boy list ahead of us or not, but it is good to see movement anyway.

The little boy I posted about earlier is due home on Tues. and will be needing medical treatment. Please pray that he will start fighting off the illnesses he has and will be able to eat and grow because right now he weights 4lbs at 4 months old.

PLEASE join me in prayer!

I don't have much time to post, but please please pray for a little baby named Abdisa from now until next Tues. when he will be home here in Missoula! I'll update more when I can, but he desperately needs prayer!

We are now #...

My little girl wanted to wear my # necklace for this month's picture. How cute is that seeing her little neck and hand bearing the number that represents her little brother. Not a huge movement this past month, and probably even less in the few months to come, but I know my little boy is waiting for the perfect day that we will be untited with him, and so am I.