Ninepence: the story of our journey to our daughters: We received our letter of confirmation!

Monday, May 9, 2011

We received our letter of confirmation!

On Friday Lyndsay called us clearly excited. We had received our official letter of confirmation from China. Once we sign it and send it back to our agency, they will send it back to China and once that happens we'll get the travel approval 4-6 weeks from then. After that it's another 2-3 weeks before we LEAVE FOR CHINA!

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The story of Ninepence

When I was a very young girl I saw a movie called, "The Inn Of The Sixth Happiness". It was a movie that I never forgot, loosely based on the life of Gladys Aylward, a missionary living in China during the 1930's.

During her time in China, she came upon a woman begging by the side of the road. With her was a 5 year old girl, covered with sores and very malnourished. She determined that the woman was not the mother of the child, but that she had kidnapped her in order to aid in her begging. So she bought the girl for ninepence, and hence called her "Ninepence". A year later, Ninepence showed up with an abandoned boy in tow, saying, "I will eat less so he can have something." Thus Gladys adopted a second orphan, "Less". (In the movie the child is a baby and Gladys calls her, Sixpence).

When the Japanese invaded China, Gladys took 100 orphans into the mountains to escape. They walked for 12 days before arriving at the Yellow River, with no way to cross. "Why don't we cross?" the children asked. "There are no boats." They said, "God can do anything. Ask Him to get us across.". They all knelt and prayed. Then they sang. Their singing was heard by a Chinese officer and patrol who found them a boat and got them across the river safely.

Gladys continued her mission to help the people and orphans of China, until her death in 1970.