Well, I am sad to say that our trip to the Philippines (we were supposed to leave tomorrow morning) has been cancelled. A series of unfortunate events has resulted in our entire teams trip being cancelled. To make a long story short, yesterday we had some bad news from our travel agent, or I should say, we had some bad news from the airline as we were confirming our flights and times, in which they said we are "reserved" but our tickets had not been paid for yet, and we would have until NOON TODAY to pay for them or else we would lose them. So immediately we are calling our travel agent in which we entrusted many thousands of dollars MONTHS ago to purchase our tickets. We are not really sure what happened to the money we sent her, but it is gone - by her own admission and fault. So, she is unable to pay for our tickets now which means, we are NOT going to the Philippines. It is still sinking in with all of us. When you have planned for 6 months for a huge trip and less than 2 days from leaving you find out this bad news, you have purchased everything, started or finished packing, planned for yourself to be gone for 16 days, and then it all comes to a screeching hault. But in the midst of our disappointment and frustration with this travel agent, we are at peace knowing that our God has His hand in this mix. We knew that this was not big at all for Him to pull a miracle if we were meant to go, and at the same time, we still believe that we shall see a miracle in the sense of why it ended up the way it did. Needless to say, I probably cannot say much more due to the courts most likely getting involved to prosecute. So, we will still send our girls up to my parents for a week and Matthew and I will take a few days for ourselves and then come home and take advantage of the time we have to work on our home with the girls gone.

Thank you all for your prayers...I am positive they worked. I know that God is in control of all.