Chelsea Patterson Sobolik

Our family has been keeping a secret!! @michaelsobolik and I honored and excited to announce that we’re pursuing another adoption from India. We chose to hold this news close for a little while, but the time has come to celebrate with our village — and we are SO glad to finally share it with you! We are just a couple of months away from being in the matching process (awaiting USCIS and India approval). When we adopted Dev, it was a year between matching and travel to India, but it’s been shortened to 6 months, so we’re anticipating (and hoping for) a shorter process this time around. In 2023, we welcomed our son Dev home from India through international adoption. We have been utterly amazed at how the Lord has worked in our lives over the past 6 years (we began our first adoption process in 2020). He has been faithful to us in every stage and season. He’s reminded us again and again of His great love for us — and our son. He’s given us wisdom and patience, when we were stretched beyond ourselves. He’s given us more joy than we thought possible We always tell Dev that adoption means he is loved and chosen. We remind our dear son of the story of how the Lord adopts us into his family, calls us his very own children, and invites us to call him “Father.” We will soon have the privilege of telling this story to our second dear child. They say “it takes a village” to raise a child, but for adoptive families, it often takes a village to bring them home, too. We can’t do the adoption process alone—we don’t have all the physical, mental, or emotional resources we need. Hundreds of people were involved, in some capacity, in bringing our son home, and we’re already looking forward with anticipation to how the Lord will write our family’s story for our second adoption. 🎉We are thrilled to share that we’ve been awarded a $4000 matching grant Fund administered by We Care for Orphans in Indiana and a $3000 matching grant Fund administered by @LifesongOrphans! If you’re interested in financially supporting our adoption, your gift will be doubled. From the bottom of our hearts — thank you. We are eternally grateful for the people who chose to enter into our story! ♥️ Chelsea and Michael

.@michaelsobolik got a call from @LifelineChild late yesterday afternoon letting us know that our U.S. immigration paperwork has been aprroved! We are officially in the MATCHING process of our adoption journey!!!!🇮🇳 We would love prayers for this next stage of the process! We know the Lord already knows who are our little one is and we can’t wait to meet them!

@akjergaard1 Thank you!!!! I love how affordable it was too!!!

@ChelsPat absolutely darling! the carved bedposts are perfection

Found the marketplace bed of my dreams today for such a steal😍

@DanielDiMartino Major congrats!!!

Graduate School commencement today

Dear President Trump, from our family, thank you so much for raising #FreePastorJin! @realDonaldTrump @POTUS

This is outstanding from @TheAlanNoble 👇🏽 "Insofar as contemporary education is motivated by a drive for maximal efficiency, what Jacques Ellul calls technique, rather than love of wisdom and knowledge, students will naturally and quite reasonably gravitate towards tools that are the pinnacle of efficiency. But if we teach students to love what is lovely in their subjects, they will see the futility and hollowness in using AI to avoid thinking for themselves. Teaching students to love their subjects means a return to human education, but not human-centered. Practicing the virtue of love means that we are reminded, in gratitude, of the Creator of these wonderful subjects of study and why they are worthy of our investigation. Virtues demand a telos, a direction towards which they and we are pointed. Even as students study math or physics or biology or poetry, they are studying the creation and glory that God has made for us to discover, and that is part of wisdom." substack.com/home/post/p-19…

Thank you @realDonaldTrump for raising Pastor Jin's case!!!

“We must obey God rather than men.” — Acts 5:29 Pastor Jin’s courage is a reminder that faith cannot be dictated by the Communist Party. When governments demand loyalty above God, standing firm has a cost — and that’s exactly why the pastor’s witness matters. This week, we are praying for his release and for all those wrongfully detained, persecuted, and imprisoned for their faith in China.

Thank you, @SpeakerJohnson, Rep. Chris Smith, @SenatorDurbin, @SenTedCruz, @RepTomSuozzi and all the other members for their leadership in swiftly passing Senate and House resolutions urging the President to prioritize securing the release of Pastor Jin Mingri, Pastor Gao Quanfu and his wife, Dr. Gulshan Abbas and Jimmy Lai. There are few bipartisan issues these days, and I'm incredibly grateful that the U.S. congress boldly spoke on this issue! And I'm grateful that @POTUS stated that he intents to discuss Jimmy Lai and Pator Jin during his time in Beijing. @ziba116, @GraceJDrexel, @GaoPu1231 and @SupportJimmyLai have been fierce advocates for their parents release. @OliviaEnos, @theToriKSmith, @michaelsobolik, @DCSas, and so many others have worked alongside them to raise the cases at the highest levels of government. #FreeGulshanAbbas #FreePastorJin #FreeJimmyLai #FreeGaoQuanfu #FreePangYu

Thank you so much @SenTedCruz for your continual leadership, to be the voice to the voiceless and the persecuted!

Really enjoyed speaking with @tracegallagher on @foxnewsnight last night! Got the chance to raise the issue of political prisoners — specifically Jimmy Lai, Pastor Ezra Jin, and Gulshan Abbas. Everyone is focused on the list of CEOs, but the list of prisoners matters more.

Glad to see Congress standing resolutely in support of freeing political prisoners across China today. Both the House and Senate unanimously passed resolutions in support of high priority political prisoners including Jimmy Lai, Gulshan Abbas, & Pastor Jin, among others.

Both Senate and House versions of the resolution passed with a unanimous vote! This week has been stressful but at the same time, it has also been deeply humbling and full of hope. I want to thank the incredible colleagues in each congressional office who have stood by us, supported us, and helped keep these cases in the spotlight this week. I feel blessed to have such an amazing group of friends who have been anchoring me through this difficult journey. Let’s keep pushing forward — together. #FreeGulshanAbbas My deepest gratitude to @SpeakerJohnson, Rep. Chris Smith, @RepTomSuozzi @SenTedCruz, @SenatorDurbin and all the other members of Congress for their leadership.

@RonaldReagan How wonderful!! Congrats!!🇺🇸🇺🇸

Tune in tonight! Looking forward to discussing the Trump-Xi summit with @tracegallagher @FoxNews 🇺🇸 🇨🇳

Proud wife post!! @michaelsobolik has done U.S.- China relations for as long as I’ve known him, and he’s worked so hard on issues that matter. He also cares deeply about political prisioners, persecuted religions minorities and human rights issues. I couldn’t be more proud of him and I’m honored to be by his side! Grateful for his thoughtful analysis during the U.S-China summit!

Free Jimmy Lai Free Pastor Jin Mingri Free Dr. Gulshan Abbas Free Pastor Gao Quanfu and his wife Pang Yu Huge credit to @SpeakerJohnson for bringing this legislation directly to the House floor. Grateful for the leadership of Rep. Christ Smith, @RepMoolenaar, @RepTomSuozzi, and @RepYoungKim.

Back on @ABCNewsLive with @KyraPhillips at the top of the hour. Tune in! China summit etc