Wonderfully Made Psalm 139:13-16
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Monday, October 26, 2009
Friday, October 23, 2009
Benjamen Zachary Guang Pierce
Ben turned 19 months last week on October 17th. I wanted to write about his name and why we chose it for him.
Benjamen is from the Hebrew Language, meaning "The Son of My Right Hand". The scripture given is Psalm 18:35, You have also given me the shield of Your salvation; Your right hand has held me up, Your gentleness has made me great.
We believe God has a great plan for Ben, all along he has been in the presence of our Lord with God himself holding him up in His right hand, with gentleness just waiting for the day Ben will receive his shield of salvation. We also decided to spell his name with the word "men" because we feel that God will make him into a "Fisher of Men" for His Glory!
Zachary is also from the Hebrew Language, meaning "God Has Remembered". The scripture given is Psalm 25:14, The friendship of the Lord is for those who fear him, and he makes known to them his covenant.
God has remembered him as well as all of the orphans around the world.
Guang is his given Chinese name in which we will keep. We feel it is important for him to have a part of his heritage.
When the meaning of Benjamen Zachary is put all together it means:
The Son of My Right Hand, God has Remembered!
Thank You God, that you have remembered our Ben and that you have a great plan for his life and it involves me being his forever mommy!
Benjamen is from the Hebrew Language, meaning "The Son of My Right Hand". The scripture given is Psalm 18:35, You have also given me the shield of Your salvation; Your right hand has held me up, Your gentleness has made me great.
We believe God has a great plan for Ben, all along he has been in the presence of our Lord with God himself holding him up in His right hand, with gentleness just waiting for the day Ben will receive his shield of salvation. We also decided to spell his name with the word "men" because we feel that God will make him into a "Fisher of Men" for His Glory!
Zachary is also from the Hebrew Language, meaning "God Has Remembered". The scripture given is Psalm 25:14, The friendship of the Lord is for those who fear him, and he makes known to them his covenant.
God has remembered him as well as all of the orphans around the world.
Guang is his given Chinese name in which we will keep. We feel it is important for him to have a part of his heritage.
When the meaning of Benjamen Zachary is put all together it means:
The Son of My Right Hand, God has Remembered!
Thank You God, that you have remembered our Ben and that you have a great plan for his life and it involves me being his forever mommy!
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Cardiologist Visit
Shayle's visit went pretty well overall. The doctor will call us back at the end of this week to talk with us once she has had a chance to review her echo pictures from last year to compare them to the echo she did yesterday. She travels to a small town nearby for patients who do not live in the DFW area. She is located in Dallas and all of Shayle's records and images are kept in that office.
We did find out that if she should need a valve replacement sometime in her life, she will have to undergo major open heart surgery. This news was devastating to me since we misunderstood at our appointment last year that she would only need a heart cath. to fix her pulmonary valve. The heart cath. would be to repair her large heart murmur. The dr. told us that sometimes kids will need this as they go through growth spurts. Sometimes they don't need it until they are adults. We will just have to continue to monitor her weight and activity level to determine when it will be time for the surgery. Everyday, since before we went to China to get her I have prayed for God to keep her heart strong and I'm asking you as my friends and family to please put her on your prayer list. I will post again once we hear back from her doctor.
We did find out that if she should need a valve replacement sometime in her life, she will have to undergo major open heart surgery. This news was devastating to me since we misunderstood at our appointment last year that she would only need a heart cath. to fix her pulmonary valve. The heart cath. would be to repair her large heart murmur. The dr. told us that sometimes kids will need this as they go through growth spurts. Sometimes they don't need it until they are adults. We will just have to continue to monitor her weight and activity level to determine when it will be time for the surgery. Everyday, since before we went to China to get her I have prayed for God to keep her heart strong and I'm asking you as my friends and family to please put her on your prayer list. I will post again once we hear back from her doctor.
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Fingerprint Appointment
We received an appointment for our fingerprints yesterday. We will have to wait two more weeks to have them done on November 2, just one day before we celebrate Shayle's one year gotcha day! Hopefully we will hear back quickly and can be DTC soon, praying by Thanksgiving. I want to send Ben a care package for Christmas and our agency told us we need to be logged in before sending anything.
Monday, October 19, 2009
Cardiologist Appointment
Prayer Warriors, Shayle will have her annual visit to the cardiologist tomorrow to check on her heart. Please pray with us that her heart will look great and that no additional tests or restrictions will be needed.
Compassion For The Fatherless
I am so excited about what God is doing through our local orphan care ministry. We finally have a website up and running, thanks to my wonderful husband. He did such a great job putting this site together. I have added a link to it on my sidebar.
We are just 3 weeks away from the first Orphan Care Sunday to be held on November 8th. We have partnered with Lifesong For Orphans to create an adoption fund within our adoption ministry. The adoption fund will help aide those needing financial assistance with their adoption. I am anxiously waiting to see how God is going to bless this ministry by helping families to adopt and unite orphans all over the world with their forever families!
We are just 3 weeks away from the first Orphan Care Sunday to be held on November 8th. We have partnered with Lifesong For Orphans to create an adoption fund within our adoption ministry. The adoption fund will help aide those needing financial assistance with their adoption. I am anxiously waiting to see how God is going to bless this ministry by helping families to adopt and unite orphans all over the world with their forever families!
Monday, October 12, 2009
PA!!!
We received our PA today for Benjamen Zachary! This time it only took 3 weeks and 3 days compared to 7 weeks and 3 doctor's letters with Shayle. I am praising God for all He's doing and going to do in Ben's little life. I will post later on how we chose his name.
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
The Flu has struck our house
I have been keeping busy for the last few days. Five of the seven of us have had the flu. Poor Darrel was sick in bed on his birthday. We have had a few hectic days and some are getting better while I'm afraid for the two of us who haven't caught it, yet. Payton and I have not had it and I believe Payton may be next. She complained about her chest hurting and that she had began coughing at school today.
This was the week my hubby and I were to fly to North Carolina to attend a Medical Mission Conference with Samaritan's Purse and Franklin Graham Ministries. I have looked forward to this conference for several months and am disappointed that we had to cancel our trip. I know that God has a reason and He knows what is ahead. Fortunately, He knew I would need to be here to take care of my sick babies and hubby.
We are still waiting to hear about our pre-approval (PA) from the Chinese government. It has been three weeks since our referral, hopefully we will here soon. We also had our immigration come back last week, which we were so excited to see until I opened it up to see a rejection notice on it. It stated we were missing a page in our application. As we began looking through our paperwork, the only page I hadn't included was page 9, which is used when someone else fills out your application for you. I didn't think we would need to include it, but apparently they want to see that it is blank and that we did fill out our own application. We resent it last Friday including the blank piece of paper. This is a good example of how things are when the government is involved, things get denied for very silly reasons. Think about how bad it will be if the healthcare reform gets pushed through. What a scary thought!
This was the week my hubby and I were to fly to North Carolina to attend a Medical Mission Conference with Samaritan's Purse and Franklin Graham Ministries. I have looked forward to this conference for several months and am disappointed that we had to cancel our trip. I know that God has a reason and He knows what is ahead. Fortunately, He knew I would need to be here to take care of my sick babies and hubby.
We are still waiting to hear about our pre-approval (PA) from the Chinese government. It has been three weeks since our referral, hopefully we will here soon. We also had our immigration come back last week, which we were so excited to see until I opened it up to see a rejection notice on it. It stated we were missing a page in our application. As we began looking through our paperwork, the only page I hadn't included was page 9, which is used when someone else fills out your application for you. I didn't think we would need to include it, but apparently they want to see that it is blank and that we did fill out our own application. We resent it last Friday including the blank piece of paper. This is a good example of how things are when the government is involved, things get denied for very silly reasons. Think about how bad it will be if the healthcare reform gets pushed through. What a scary thought!
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