PRAYER NEEDED.....

PLEASE PRAY SPECIFICALLY....I am waiting on a council to finalize our adoption by voting we can have Francis officially.

They were suppose to meet last week but did not and now I HAVE to have them meet this week or I will be stuck here for another month.

I trust that God has the exact minute we are to be home and I do not want MAN getting in the way of His plans and delaying my stay here any longer.

Luke 18 is a story of a persistent woman and God's word tells us to be persistent in our prayers so I'm counting on my friends to flood the heavens with prayers for Francis and I.

Thanks in Advance..

Angie and Francis

Never Ending Journey - Part 12

Wow, Part 12.... wonder when it will end.. ;) Yesterday finally the DSS people came to interview us. I know God's timing is perfect and I saw it yesterday.

They interviewed Francis first and I could her here telling them "Please let me go home, I miss my dad very much and I need to go and see him".  That's a good sign for them, when she asks on her own without any questions to her they know she is ready.

They told me that they felt all was well with us and they probably would not be back again. I'm suppose to have 4 visits and they are only giving me 1  that's a huge blessing from God.

My lawyer will now petition the Director to send my case to the Council that votes on the approval for us to adopt Francis at the next meeting which is in two weeks. Once we get that approval she will then schedule an appointment with a judge and then a few days after seeing the judge I will get to come home. Terry will have to come here also which makes things ruff for our kids.

That sounds so easy right.. Well as you see nothing is easy in Nicaragua and nothing goes as planned so please start praying it goes faster than we can plan...

Francis has decided she wants to change her name so going forward I will start calling her Hannah Grace. She decided on her own and with great hesitation I am going to allow it.

Please continue to pray for my family as we are coming to an end of this journey a new one will begin. Hannah will have to live with 3 new brothers in a country that is only English speaking and go to a school that is only English. This will cause many fears and many days of frustration for her. Everything will be new. Especially flying on a plane which she is already concerned about. Pray against that fear.

Please pray for direction for Terry and I. As I have mentioned before we believe this is a call on our lives and we have been obedient to His call. It has not been easy and it has been a huge sacrifice but if it was easy then everyone would do it right? We have major decisions to make soon. We have not raised enough money to pay all the necessary final payments and we do not believe we are to go in debt to do so. I trust the Lord and we trust this is a ministry we have been called to do so we expect Him to provide but time is running out. God is always on-time but the wait is ruff. I know He is teaching us everyday how to rest in Him.

If anyone is interested in sowing into the life of Hannah Grace we would be grateful. Several have and I can't say thanks enough. Terry and I are humbled by what we have seen God do so far and give Him all the Glory because no one else but Him could pull this off.

If you want to bless us you can send it to your church and they will send you a tax receipt. Every dollar helps no matter how small or how large. We still need to raise at least $4,000. Actually more but that is the largest bill that has to be paid so I can get out of the country.

We have trust God this entire time and we won't stop now. Please pray with us that we will walk in PEACE knowing HE is in control and HE has a plan.

Hannah will come home and need all new clothes and a new bedroom so if anyone has size 8 clothes and size 2 shoes  that they want to pass down we will take them.

Thanks again for being a part of this journey.

Angie & Terry

Address for the church : (Put our name on the subject line)

Harvest Church 7429 Tuckaseegee Road Charlotte, NC 28214

Never Ending Journey Part 11

As of early this morning I became the sole guardian of Francis Grace Honeycutt. How amazing is that. I was told to show up at the office of Mi Familia (DSS) at 8:00 and simply sign my name so I did of course and at 1:30 I finally signed that document.

This is a good example of how things are different here than in the US. A simple process that should take 5 minutes took 5 hours.

Please pray with me that what should take 3 months to complete this process will take less than 3 months and not a minute more than God's plan.

I have been her 6 weeks already and my time just started ticking off as of 1:30 today, that's so discouraging..

I was told today that Terry has to go before the Judge with us which means he has to return to Nicaragua at the end of this process. The problem with this is that the day he needs to be here is really hard to determine making it almost impossible to plan anything.

Please pray for us that some how it will be easy for us and he will be able to leave our kids, our business and our potential business for only a short period of time. Someone told me today it could be a month. That's is impossible. There is no way he can leave my kids for that long and no way he can stop working for that long. Please pray this is not true and it will be a short period with an expected date not a guessing game.

Please also continue to pray for our finances. The trip Terry just made was not planned, moving to another place and having to pay rent because I can't live with another Nicaraguan family was not planned. There are many expenses we are having to pay that was unforeseen and unplanned for and we know this adoption is of God and He has provision for us but right now we don't see it. We still need to raise more than $5,000. More than we would have ever imagined.

We have trusted God for 5 years to bring us to this point and we know He has a plan. We trust him and know that He will deliver, how I have no idea....

Please pray in agreement with us that our needs will be met and we won't have to take out a second mortgage to do so.

If you feel led to support this effort you can still send money to my church and receive a tax deduction. If that does not matter to you, you can send your check directly to Terry.

If God is not telling you to support this effort I would hope you will at least pray for us. Pray for our business to increase greatly so we will be able to meet these needs or pray others will sow into our lives.

To send a check to Harvest Church - include my name on the Subject Line.

7429 Tuckaseegee Road Charlotte, NC 28214

To Terry:

Terry Honeycutt 198 Mellwood Drive Charlotte, NC 28214

Thanks again for all the prayers. Feel free to send an encouraging word my way. It's gets really lonely here.

Until next time..

Never Ending Journey Part 10

Last week I saw a video of a small child who won the chance to shoot a puck into a small hole at a hockey game. The odds were 1 in a Million.. this young boy (I think he was 9 or 10) hit the puck and straight in it went.. It was a $50,000 prize. 1 in a Million odds and a 10 year old did it..

That's how I feel this week. I have just had a 1 in a Million odds experience. Let me explain more.

In 2004 I started working in the orphanage in Somotillo. There were 17 little girls there on average. Some came and went but must stayed there permanently. My bond with the kids grew as I stayed with them a great deal of time. I grew a great love for these girls and in 2007 we started this adoption process for the first two girls because of that strong bond.

During 2007 there were two little girls there that soon left. Nessie and Francis. Nessie left in December of 07 and Francis left in March of 2008.

In March I came and brought all the girls Easter clothes. That day happen to be the last day Francis was going to be at the orphanage because she was leaving to be adopted by a family.

I gave her clothes and we took pictures of her. She was 5 years old. I walked her to the gate that day, hugged her, cried with her and prayed over her and sent her on her way. I was angry that day because they didn't tell she was leaving for good and the other girls didn't know either so there were no goodbyes.

This past week the enemy did everything possible to stop us from adopting. We were told due to something I said the adoption was denied. Praise God that my attorney The Lord of Lords has the final words. The director allowed me to share why I said what I said and soon her attitude changed because she realized her employees were wrong and I was right and she immediately took us to meet our daughter. When you have God as your attorney you don't need any other help....

The day before when we were there and they told me my daughters name was Francis I didn't think anything about it but then they told me she had a sister named Nessie. I started thinking what would be the odd of me knowing this same child. Impossible I said. Impossible that of all the children in the country that needs to be adopted the same little girl I already knew and loved would be the one. Just impossible because she was already adopted.

They brought Francis in the room and sure enough she is my little Francis that I have already loved and known. I have tons of pictures of her when she was 5 and 6.  The crazy thing about this all is that Terry has been praying this entire time for us to adopt a child from the House of Rose. To us it was going to be impossible. For God, all things are Possible....

The DSS director had no idea Francis was ever at the House of Rose and had no way of knowing we knew her. She picked a child from the list but God chose this child for her because He had a plan for Francis in 2007 we just didn't know it.

Today is the second day with her and already there is a bond I can't explain. It is truly a God given connection. It is a 1 in a Million experience.

My new journey has just begun...After 4 long years and many many hours of prayer our time has arrived to bless a wonderful young lady.. We are so honored he chose us..

God is so good....I stand in awe that we have a child now that we already had..

More to come..

To see photos of Francis on our first day together go to this website.

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150261548906534.324168.510376533&l=2cdca49bf3&type=1

Thanks to everyone who prayed for us during this journey. It has only began so please don't stop praying for us. Living here for 3 more months will be hard. Today I took Terry to the airport and it's been a very sad moment for me. I'm lonely already..

For those asking what happen to Nessie, well she an Francis lived in that "home" for 3 years before the adoption was finished and when it was the family only took Nessie. They decided not to accept Francis and sent her back to DSS folks and they put her in the orphanage where she is now. She has been hurt so bad by this family. I stand amazed she is so willing to trust us. She has already asked if she can come and stay with me overnight. I should have her fulltime soon.

This is a true testimony to God's power and His grace and mercy.. We are going to name Francis, Francis Grace Honeycutt (assuming she accepts it).

Thanks again for joining me in our journey.

Angie & Terry

Never Ending Journey Part 9

Many things have happen since I wrote last. Things change around here so fast that I decided to wait until I had something concrete to say. For example, I have had a meeting with the DSS folks changed 4 times in a day.

What I am about to tell you will either shock you, encourage you or maybe both. Walking by Faith is really an awesome thing to do.

When I arrived here and went to see Karen I met almost a stranger. Not my Karen. She had changed physically so much I didn't recognize her. The physical change I can handle but the mental change I can't. Karen loves us very much but over the course of the last few months she has been completely brainwashed into believing she has to stay here in Nicaragua. That's what her "mom" would have wanted for her. The woman she lives with has made sure she knows that it was her "mom's" last request that she stay with her and not to come to the US.

After talking with Karen it was clear that things in her heart had changed and to be honest things had changed for me as well. I realized quickly I was now fighting for a child who didn't want me to fight for her. She loves us but she is confused.

When I went to Mi Familia (DSS) and was told by the Director that she just could not understand why I was fighting to love a child that may never be able to love me back I started questioning God because I agreed with her completely.

Prior to going to see Mi Familia I was praying and telling God that He truly knew the desire of my heart and even though we love Karen very much and we believe she was meant for us having a teenager who doesn't want us is not my desire. For 4 days I prayed asking God to show me what He was doing because I knew something major had changed in my heart and in Karen's. Now what about Terry.

I told no one of my feelings. Only God. Since we started to adopt Karen Terry has refused to even discuss adopting any other child. In his heart if he discussed it he would be giving up on Karen and he wanted God to see he had enough faith to believe for Karen. I told God that if he had other plans He better hurry up and tell Terry because that was going to take a while to change his heart.

Unbeknown to me God was already working. Terry went to Virginia and spend time with his sister who has a 4 year old little girl. During that time which was the same 4 days I had been praying that if God had other plans He would change Terry, Terry was also thinking about the fact that all along we have wanted a little girl. One we can bless with lots of love and one that will receive it in return yet here we were fighting to adopt a teenager who didn't even care how much she was loved.

On the night that I had the meeting with the Director Terry and I were talking (and remember for 2 1/2 years he refused to discuss another child) and in that discussion I told him what the Director had said about us fighting for a kid that didn't wants us anymore yet there are tons of children who do and out of know where he asked me "so what about those children", "how old are they". I was so surprised I didn't really know what to say so I said let's not talk about this any more. Let's pray.. let's see what God is saying because I was emotionally drained and could not handle any more changes in my life.

The next day came and went and we didn't even talk. Terry and I both were seeking God and looking for his direction.

On Wednesday of last week we have 5 confirmations of what God was telling us. Confirmations that could only have come from God since know one knew what we were going through. So...

As of yesterday we are now adopting a little girl. One we do not even know. One who is living in an orphanage here in Managua. We will be able to meet her on Thursday of next week. Terry will come on Wednesday and for 5 days we will be with her to see if there is a connection. Once that is over with if all goes well then I will have her for the next 3 months and then I will bring her home.

Right now we only know that she is between 7 and 9 years of age. They are investigating to determine for sure her age.  Even the child could change between now and then so we really won't know until we get to the orphanage.

We have also asked to adopt Karen. If for some reason she changes her mind after therapy we would still take her but as she gets older and more time passes and she is not allowed to talk to us that emotional connection will be gone even more. However, if she changes her mind we will accept her as well.

I know you probably think this is crazy and yes it is but I can tell you that I have seen God's hand in every minute of it and I am at perfect peace which tells me even more this is God's plan after all.

What a great testimony this child will have. She will be able to tell everyone that God used her to bless 3 other children's lives just to get us to this point to have her.

I am excited in this new beginning.. this new journey God has for us. I can't even believe it is happening but it is and it's God's plan for our lives.

So for now please continue to pray for Karen. Pray that she is taken care of and loved in this foster home. We love her very much and we will not give up on her. We will be here when she is ready for us.

I am so amazed at God. Amazed at how He has taken us down this path put up walls and doors to direct us to this point for such as time as this.

I will share pictures of our new daughter as soon as I meet her and I am allowed to. I can't wait to introduce to you the hand picked child God has for us.

Please continue to pray for my safety, my health (I am sick with a sinus infection now, surprise surprise), our finances and my family.

I will soon have to move from where I am living because they won't allow me to live with another family which we did not know about and did not plan for and we did not think Terry was going to have to come as well. We know God did not bring us here and will not provide but ask that you pray in agreement with us that our needs will be met.

Thanks to all of you who have been praying for us. I have felt your prayers and could not make it without them.

The living conditions here are difficult to say the least and the weather and dust is driving my sinusitis NUTS.

I'll update more as I have new information..

Rejoice in the Lord always..

Angie & Terry

Angie