Well, we faced a little bit of a delay in that our paperwork was a week late getting filed with the Chinese Government.  Apparently, the lady that was filing it was also filing paperwork for several other families and she thought that she had to wait for everyone’s packet to get to her and file them all at once.  That wasn’t the case, but I guess there have been changes to the way these things are handled over there and there is a little bit of confusion.

That said, everything is filed and the Chinese Government issued our Article 5 this week, which is the next step in the process.  We SHOULD receive travel authorization within the next two weeks or so.  Kelly thinks that the travel authorizations appear to be issued on Thursday, so I would imagine we would get our travel authorization by April 8th.  That would put us on track to leave around April 20th.

God continues to answer prayers.  One of our biggest concerns is leaving Nick here managing his diabetes.  But, one of our neighbors, who herself is a Type I diabetic, has agreed to be “on-call” while we are gone to manage any diabetic issues that he might have.  That really helps lift some of that burden.  Things continue to fall into place as we trust in God to work out all the final details.

Cameron Bernadsky