PRAISE GOD!!!

Lucy Mae Coppedge has a legal, official, registered birth certificate!!! HALLELUJAH! PRAISE GOD FOREVER!!!

Thank you for praying. It only took two trips into town and a 12 hour period. That is nearly as miraculous as her healthy birth!

We arrived in Kampala on Friday, traveling down with some other friends from Arua. We are staying at an amazingly nice and comfortable place in the city and feel like we are on holiday!...except we still don't sleep much! :)

Saturday we visited our friends Imam and Tina and their one year old Angela. We had such a great time with them and Imam (a chef) even had made a birthday cake for Lucy Mae! It was really fun to celebrate life again with them.

Sunday we were able to worship in Kisugu Africa Gospel Church...the oldest church in the denomination WGM is working with in Uganda. We were thankful to see friends and get to share Lucy with so many who have been praying for her.

Then yesterday was our miracle day! We have been told it can take weeks to sort out the Uganda birth certificate...but Billy went yesterday morning and found a man who helped him easily through the process and told him to come back at 2p.m. to pick up the official paper. All day we prayed, not really believing that it could be that easy. At 1p.m. we called to see if he had really even begun and he confirmed we should come and pick it up in an hour! We arrived and it wasn't yet signed by the appropriate people, but Billy went and got a signature on it and that was it! We even recieved a reciept for the full amount we had paid in the morning...amazing!!! Jesus so sweetly went before us! Praise Him!

We had time then to take the girls to the pediatrician and get their immunizations as well. After that we had SO MUCH TO CELEBRATE we went out to a fun restaraunt for dinner! Five is pretty early for us for dinner, but we thought the girls would be tired from the big day anyway, we could put them to bed early. We didn't realize one of the city's downfalls is the traffic about 6p.m. So...it took us over an hour to get back to this great house...but that is ok...we had lived through our miracle day!

THANK YOU FOR PRAYING!!!

Today is Hero's Day, a national holiday, so we will wait until tomorrow(Wednesday) to try and find favor with the Embassy people and get a passport started for little Lucy. We will keep you posted, but thank you for praying through this process!