The Amazing Orphanage Donation

It's Monday morning here-we've already eaten breakfast at the hotel and are getting things ready for the Civil Affairs office (and Gotcha Day!).  We'll be taking Luke's backpack filled with snacks, bottled water and an iPad, Noah's new backpack filled with toys and treats and 2 gifts for the ayis (caretakers from the orphanage).

Yesterday afternoon our guide took us to a local bank and we exchanged $8,500 USD for RMB; of that $5,556 is a required orphanage donation fee.  Here is a picture of what that looks like in RMB:

Interestingly enough this amount is EXACTLY the total amount we have raised/received from t-shirt sales, the garage sale, the Fund Anything account and in-kind donations from friends and family.  How cool and amazing is that?!  God's hand is constantly there providing for each of us even when we cannot see it.  

We're feeling a million mixed emotions about today and in just a few hours we will meet Noah!!!