Bee-bim Bop!

In honor of 6 months of waiting for our referral, Raleigh and I decided to cook a traditional Korean meal, bee-bim bop. Bop is the Korean word for rice, and bee-bim means mixed-up. So...bee-bim bop means mixed up rice.

Basically you start by cooking rice, vegetables, meat and eggs. You put the rice in your bowl first, then the vegetables and meat. Then you top off your bowl with egg. Finally, you "bee-bim" or mix everything together!! It was fun to make and delicious to eat!

6 Months Waiting!

Today Raleigh and I are celebrating 6 months of offically waiting for our referral. If you are not familiar with the adoption process, our "official wait" started when our homestudy (paperwork) was approved.

Adoption timelines are unpredictable, but our agency has given us their "best guess" which is a 12 month wait from homestudy to referral. If this holds true, we are half way through the wait to referral. WooHoo!

We know that the timeline is totally in God's hands and we are just excited to follow Him on the journey!!!

Another thing that only God knows is how old our child will be at the time of referral. However, if all of the "best guesses" are exactly true, we would get a referral of a 5 month old baby at the end of July. If this happened to be true, our child will be born at the end of February. Wow!! That is so neat that our child's birth mother could be approximately 8 months pregnant right now.

I cannot imagine the emotions she must be experiencing as she makes such a hard decision about the future of her child. Raleigh and I will continue to pray for our child's birthmother and for our child.

Thanks to everyone who is sooo supportive of this journey!!! We are so thankful for your prayers!!

Continue to pray for Haiti

During high school, I traveled to Haiti 4 times. Each time I worked with YWAM in St. Marc. You can read the latest update from the director below. Please pray especially for the orphanages and for the children that have lost parents in the earthquake. Pray for wisdom for the Haitian government and the US government.

01/19/2010 06:33 AM Update from Terry Snow

Yesterday our YWAM’ers in PAP came upon people seeking help and a four month old child was discovered pinned under a building. Our rescue team from YWAM sprang into action. After some time the child was removed from the rubble and rushed to a make shift hospital with a large cut on her head. Once there everyone tried to find a responsible person. After asking where the baby’s mother was, the people with them said she is still under the building. The YWAMers rushed back to hear people saying that she was under the building, dead. Our YWAMers began to dig to find her. To everyone’s surprise they found her ALIVE! She was extremely dehydrated and will need hospital care but it seems she will recover!



YWAM St. Marc Gym has become a make shift recovery ward for the overflowing hospital. Yesterday a Doctor asked one of our YWAMers “What are they going to do with all these orphans.” He claimed that none of the children at our center had known living parents and the orphanage caretaker is not in the country. “Would YWAM take these children?” he asked. One of our volunteers spoke with one young boy that was actually thought to be dead! He had already been placed in the morgue in a closed room with the dead. After placed there and the door closed, morgue workers heard a knocking on the closed door and was shocked to see that this young boy was still alive!



Strategies are forming on how to best cope and minister during this situation. It is very intense and difficult, but let us all pray for the children of Haiti.



I want to thank everyone for your giving and your prayers. They have been a source of strength and encouragement along with the presence of God with us.



Taking the High Places!



Terry W. Snow

National Director

YWAM Haiti



The greatest need at the moment is money. If you would like to help you could send a contribution payable to YWAM Haiti “Relief: and mail to;



YWAM Haiti

PO Box 236

Akron, PA 17501



If you would like to send fund through the internet you may give through this link; https://www.ywam.org/secure/donations/donate.asp?project=10



For more information of what God has done in Haiti I would like to invite you to read my book, “Taking the High Places” http://www.ywampublishing.com/p-1054-international-adventures-seriesbrtaking-the-high-places.aspx

I-600A Approval Came Today!!!

Raleigh and I have been checking the mail with anticipation for weeks...hoping to see a letter from the Department of Homeland Security. Today, it finally arrived! Yippee! Our I-600A approval is also called I-171H and we are so happy to check this milestone off the list. Now every piece of paperwork is completed and approved in order for us to receive our referral. (There will be a new round of paperwork once we are matched with a child.)

The first sentence of the letter reads, "It has been determined that you are able to furnish proper care to an orphan..."

We are so blessed that God is allowing us to go on this journey!!

In your prayers for Haiti, please remember all of the orphanages and adoptive families that are affected.