Hello!

 Welcome to Joel, Madel, Joey, and Jodel Jordan’s website. We created this site to share with everyone our family story. Not just our immediate family but our extended family as well. In the days ahead we will be posting our family tree, our family photo’s, our visits to the Philippines. We will be including how we met, and my first two trips to the Philippines, all of our K-1 visa process and the journey through the immigration maze; which is a work still in progress. Also we will be including my hobbies and interests that include; battleships, imperial German Mauser rifles, and various history topics.

 Just a brief history; March 2008 marked the 5th year sense Madelaine and I exchanged email letters for the first time. In that time, we wrote letters, met in person, got engaged, bore through the immigration process, got married, and had two wonderful children that we thank God for each and every day!

 We met through our fathers. Both of our fathers are pastors. My Dad met her Dad on a missionary trip to the Philippines in 2002, at which time Dad returned home and posted Madel’s picture on the wall of our church. The following year (2003) Dad was going to go back to the Philippines, and I made up my mind I was going to go with him and meet the girl in the picture. However; I had not revealed to my Dad or anyone else my true intentions for going. But, as Dad prepared to go, I bought a new house and the closing date was set for the week that we were to be in the Philippines. I could not be in two places at the same time, and had to stay for the closing. Quickly, I decided that I must reveal my motive for my trip to the Philippines, to my father, and had a picture of myself made and wrote my email address and phone number on the back. I gave him the photo with instructions “If you happen to see that girl again on this trip, please ask her if she is interested in writing me.” He agreed that he would do that for me. I did not know till Dad got back home from his trip, but He knew that Madel was living in Manila by this time, so He wrote a letter to a pastor there and asked him to have Madel meet him at the airport in Manila. She met Dad there when he arrived and I received an email from her the same day, and the rest as they say is history!

Please feel free to browse the entire site for the rest of the story, and check back often for new updates.

 Thanks for stopping by!

 The Jordans