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A Very Quick Answer to Prayer

An exciting email

We received an exciting email today!

We are planning on leaving for California mid January but getting Emmaus registered and applying for his birth certificate and then US and Canadian passports before then seemed an impossible task. The night Emmaus was born I filled out his birth registration form, hoping to turn it in the next day. I never ended up turning in the registration the next day because of our surprise transfer to Owen Sound for his light treatment. I didn’t get around to it until a week after he was born. The government of Ontario says that it can take up to 16 weeks for a birth to be registered, and then after that you apply for a birth certificate and the after that you can apply for passports and so on. I submitted the registration in person and went home and filled out the birth certificate application on line.  The birth certificate application won’t process until the registration is complete. I didn’t expect to hear anything for a couple months when today, it suddenly arrived at the NTMC headquarters! Yep, it was only 2 and a half weeks from the day I turned it in to the day that it arrived!

That is some major answer to prayer, thanks to everyone who prayed with us about this.

We are now free to apply for Emmaus US and Canadian passports. Thank you Lord!!

On this day..

• Christmas at the Copelands - 2006
• 400+ kms down, a few thousand to go - 2005