Gotcha Day Eve

Written-  12:20 pm EST (July 25th), 12:20 am Beijing (July 26th)

Worship, Great Wall, and Gotcha day Eve

Another great day in Beijing. We started the day off right by going to a wonderful worship service where the name of Jesus was lifted high and the Word preached without compromise.   There were about 70 of us and maybe 400 others as we were unified by the Spirit in worship. One of the Church's Elders preached and in His sermon he spoke of his brother in-law who was in his 50's and had rejected the Gospel until several months ago when a friend (a new believer himself) invited him over to watch "Facing The Giants" and he knew from the very begining of the movie he was going to accept Jesus, as he weep through the whole thing. A man broken and restored by Christ, who is now  on fire for the Lord. He wants "all his friends to follow the One who brings peace, joy, love and security. All the things he had looked for ever since he was 4yrs old. That got all the baptist with a spontaneous, "AMEN!". How cool is that to hear while in China!?

We went to the Great Wall of China this afternoon. "WOW" sums it up. The thing is incredible in scope and size when you think it was built centuries ago (sorry can't remember the dates - things are very old over here and I've mentally drifted thinking about tomorrow many times today). The one thing which surprised me the most was the steepness of it. It was extreme in the sections we climbed and I don't think the few pictures we took do it justice. I could not imagine climbing it without the modern handrails which did make it a somewhat safer.

In less than 5 hrs from now we will wake and start a day of travel to the city of NanChang, in the Province of Jiangxi. We hope to arrive in time to check into our hotel shortly before we walk across the street to the Civil Affairs Office. This is where  they will bring 3 little girls who where born within a few days of each other last October and raised in an orphanage about 80 miles away to meet the parents God has chosen for them. About all you can say is we serve an awesome God who is worthy of our worship! You can't make this stuff up- God writes the best stories. Far better than anything I can come up with. Please keep ALL of us in your prayers, especially Kirby. If tomorrow seems like a big deal to us - multiply it by at least 1000 for Kirby. Please pray for her and the huge transition she will be making tomorrow. The next several days will be hard until she can learn how much we love her and how we are her forever family. 

Got to go and try to sleep a couple of hours -                  

We love you all,

David and Kat