Christmas letter and card...

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Dear Friends and Family,

We wanted to send out a letter to share about our year and how God has blessed us in 2008. This year we have grown as a couple and will be growing soon as a family as well, but I will go into that in minute. Let me start off with, this past March we started teaching a young married couples class with another couple Bill and Julie Garnett and have been richly blessed by being apart of this growing class. Our class T-n-C (Together in Christ) has over 30 couples and has a passion for the Lord to reach out and help others while sharing the gospel. Jeremy and I have been so excited to watch as the Lord works in this class and in the couples that come. God is good!!
As many of you know we have been trying to have another child for about 4 years now and with one miscarriage, God started speaking to our hearts about another way to expand our family. In May we started praying about adoption. We also started looking at agencies and researching countries that would most likely be the best fit for our family. At first we thought about domestic adoption (United States), but then after prayer we felt this was not the way we wanted to go. Frustrated, we started looking again at countries that would work for our family. We felt drawn to the Asian culture and found out that Korea was open for international adoption. Korea had everything we had been praying for: infant girls available escort to the United States, reasonable wait time, and a secure program. Jeremy and I were so excited and ready that we got started right away.
In August we had our home studies completed, fingerprinting for Immigration, and by September we were on the waiting list at Holt International for our little girl. In August we also had a fundraiser yard sale where many friends and family helped by donating items to sell to go towards our adoption. We raised over $1000.00 and were thrilled to say the least. We still have a lot of money to raise and save up for, but our God is good and we know he will provide. I did fill out grants for our adoption but found out last week that we did not get the big one we had applied for. We are going to keep trying and start looking for other grants to fill out to help with the financial burden that an adoption can bear. We do ask for prayer that we will find a grant that would help us to bring our little girl home and also for health, love and protection for her until she is home with us.
Jiles started Kindergarten this year, has started reading and will be child Jesus this Christmas in our adult musical program. He is such a blessing to Jeremy and I. Jiles has a sweet, humble, and meek spirit about him that draws you in. We are so blessed to have him as a son. He loves school and baseball. He can’t wait to be a big brother and prays for Lennon daily. He is growing up so fast that we just try and soak up all the memories before he doesn’t enjoy cuddling with us anymore, because as of right now he still loves to cuddle, and we love it too.
To end the year for 2008, I turned the big 3-0 in November and as you can see in our Christmas card we had a radical party with a few friends. We dressed up in 80’s attire, because I love the 80’s, and we had a blast playing games and fellowshipping. We hope you enjoy the card and get a good laugh because we know we look so COOL!!! Doesn’t Jiles look like the mini-“Joe Dirt”? J hee hee….We do want to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and many blessing for the new year to come.

All our love,
Jeremy, Rhea, Jiles, and 레논 Lennon Wyatt

Check out our blog to keep up with the latest on our adoption:
http://www.wyattpartyof4.blogspot.com/