Two New Daughters Added Too The Fate House.

It is Monday evening in China and we flew into Zengzhou in the Henan Province. There are over 98 million people live in this province. Zengzhou is the capital and this is where we met Xiao Wei and Ya for the first time today; Who are now going by the name of Maria Xiao Wei Fate and Danielle Ya Fate We are so excited. They are already a blessing to us.

When we met them today, we had no idea that they had just been told that morning that they were going to be adopted by us today. They had been told a few weeks ago that they might be adopted and were given no date.

Can you imagine being 12 & 13 and told that you will be moving away from the friends that you’ve come to know and love, your school that you're attending and suddenly told that morning you will be moving to a new country halfway across the world in a different culture that speaks a different language without saying goodbye? Wow, pretty heavy huh? That's exactly what happened.

They were so scared when we first met them this late morning my heart broke for them. Their teacher drove them up from their city of Luoyang about 2-hours away. We were told that they are the joy of the orphanage. When I talked with the teacher she today me in limited conversation that her heart was breaking that the Xiao Wei and Ya leaving today.

It did get better and we finished the paperwork with the blessing of the teachers and the girls beganning to warm-up to us. It has been awesome to see Audrey and Evan relating to the girls. Evan is a definite blessing to have on this trip. The girls seem to light up when he communicates with them. I watch Audrey give them a stroke on the arm or put her arms around them and they seem to melt with the affection. I’m truly moved to tears when I hear them laugh and giggle while playing cards with Audrey and Evan .

I know we have long way to go and a lot of mountains to climb together, but it’s all about the journey isn’t it. One of the amazing things we found out today that this is the first adoption in all of Henan province (98 million) to adopt sisters together. They are usually broken up. To the glory of God who put sister in our hearts over two years ago; amazing! isn't it! I continue to be astonished. My heart melted when I said goodnight to them and they both gave me a hug and one said good night dad... Does not get any better than that.

Please be in prayer that we have journey mercies while we drive up to Luoyang 2 ½ hour drive tomorrow so we can visit the orphanage the came from and continued progress together over the next 10 days until we come home.

God Bless,

Tim & Audrey Fate