Waiting.....

We just received a call from our Facilitator that we might possibly have an appointment tomorrow afternoon with SDA. There were some problems with the paperwork from our last referral so it has taken a little while to iron out the issues. Praise God they are fixed now. Continue to pray for our appointment and the child or children that God has for our family. We love and miss you all!

Finally I made me a cup of coffee tonight only to find out what I thought was instant coffee was not! Ugh! So off to the market we went for instant coffee.



We are back in Kyiv waiting for our 3rd SDA appointment. We had been in another region spending time with two little boys that we thought would be coming home with us but...they are not. Family members became a problem while we were there. It's ok-we know that God has a better plan for our family. Before our night time visit to the orphange I prayed that if God didn't want us to adopt these boys then to please put an obstacle in our way and sure enough He did. We showed up for visitation time and the boys mom had been there along with the grandmothers earlier in the day. When you ask God for something you better be ready to listen even when you don't understand. After this happened I called our facilatator in tears and she suggessted that we get ready to come back to Kyiv, so we did. No, this wan't easy but we know that God's plans are better than ours. So, now we wait again for our appointment. Please continue to pray for us as we continue on this Faith Journey of adoption.

On the Road Again!

After a very long 2nd SDA appointment-we will be driving 2 hours on Thursday to meet our referral. WooHoo! At least no overnight train or plane ride needed. We viewed many many children today but they either had many siblings, weren't adoptable yet or family members were involved. So, we have a peace about the referral we will be going to see.

I am not sure about internet access there so we will update as soon as possible.

Please keep us in your prayers as we continue on this Faith Journey.

If anyone is headed our way please send a steak (medium rare HA! HA!) No, really we are doing fine. We ate at TGI Friday's today with another adoptive family. Enjoyed our time together.

2nd Appointment

WooHoo! We have our 2nd SDA meeting tomorrow at 2:00p.m. We are so excited and can't wait to see how God is going to work in this meeting. Please pray for us as we will be shown more files and that we choose the one that God has for our family.

Sunday was a good day-we were able to go to church and spend time with a family here. They have been here 7 weeks and are getting ready to head home with their 2 girls. We also were able to enjoy eating lunch with them and a local missionary from North Carolina.

We will update as soon as we can tomorrow after our appointment.

Thank You for your continued prayers!

Well, since we have been in Ukraine we have rode 2 trains and are now in our third apartment. Today we filed all the paperwork for our 2nd SDA appointment-Pray that comes very soon.

We will miss worshipping with our church family tomorrow. When I asked about a church here I was told that there was not one for us to attend. (hummmm........ imagine that) Kirk will have to preach and I guess I will sing. (HA!)

Congratulations Rebels on the nice win!!!

Morgan and Mitchell-we miss you!!!

We are in Kharkiv now. Had a 7 hours express train ride-and its late here. Tomorrow is a busy day for us so we will update when and if able soon. The internet is not very good right now where we are. Keep us in your prayers!

Our day began with coffee with our POA and another family that is here adopting an older boy from a different region. After coffee, we went to our SDA appointment-along the way we saw a group of people protesting againist something but was not sure what it was-by looking at the sign they were holding I could tell that there were children on it-I asked our translator what was going on and he said that they protesting againist adoptions! During our adoption process we have been told about the moratorium but we never dreamed that we would actually see something going on about it. There were nuns (I think) singing the whole time and several people holding signs in front of an office. I only wished that I could have told all those people that we only want to love and provide for these children, to give them a home, family and teach them how much God loves them. Our translator said these people are crazy and just don't understand but if they could see all the children that are suffereing in the orphanages than they would understand.

I know you are all wanting to know how our appointment went... well.......

We will be taking an express train to Kharkiv on Thursday at about 5:00p.m. to meet our referral. Our referral is a little boy!!!! He is very cute little fellow! Our meeting lasted for one hour and we viewed about 20-30 children with different special needs. We have information about him but will find out more when we go to the orphanage. When we accepted his referral we felt a peace come over us and Kirk and I both agreed that God was telling us to pick him-so we did.

Please continue to pray for us as we know anything could happen at this point. We also know that God is in control of everything. Our next post will probably be from Kharkiv so keep posted to our blog. Thank You for contiuned prayers!

SDA 11:00a.m.

Tomorrow at 11:00a.m. We will be sitting down at our SDA meeting to view children that fit with our family according to our homestudy. We ask that you all pray for us as we look at each child and that God gives us a peace about the child He has for us. We will update as soon as we can. We have a busy day tomorrow so we are off to bed. Keep us in your prayers!

We are Here!

We made it! God has been good to us! All travels went well with no problems. Arrived in Kiev, seattled into our apartment and went to the grocery store near us. Who said you needed to know Russian here-we managed ok at the store. People just looked at me when I asked a question. I am so glad that I have been here before and could figure out some food in the store. Our peanut butter and jelly sandwich was good for supper.
We are going to rest tomorrow, maybe see some sites and meet with our Power of Attorneys.
Everyone has been so nice to us.
Please continue to pray for us that God gives us a clear vision and understanding of the child that He has planned for our family.

Sleep well!

Just in a few hours we will boarding a plane to Ukraine--we thought this day would never come and here it is. Be praying for us as God has and will be opening new doors for our family. We Love you all and will miss you bunches. We will up date as soon as we can.

Awesome worship day with our church family this morning!

Excited! Tired! and can't WAIT!

God is blessing our family daily by putting people in our path to help support us financially, prayers and even painting our new Albritton'a addition room. Thank you dear friend for handling all that painting on your day off. You don't know how much that meant to us. Also, thank you to my hairdresser for not charging today for my hair appointment-You are Awesome! As I said and I know I sound like a broken record but God gets all the Glory on this adoption.

As I type Kirk is finishing up the flooring in the new room and I am trying to finish packing. We had been at the church tonight for a little while with the youth lockin. I want to be all done by noon tomorrow and we will be so we can enjoy spending time with family until we fly out.

Keep posted and we will update as soon as we can. Be praying for us on November 17, at 11:00a.m. (Kyiv time and 4:00a.m our time) we will have our SDA meeting then.

Blessings!

God has placed people in our path daily to pave the way for our adoption. Just today we were given two monetary gifts to help with our expenses. Wow! What a blessing our family, church family and friends have been. What an impact that they are having on being apart of making a hugh difference in a child's life. We Love you all!

November 4, at 8:08a.m.

The phone call came about our invitation to go to Ukraine. WooHoo! Our God is an Awesome God! The call that seemed to have taken alot longer than 16 days finally came on Thursday at 8:08a.m. I have not posted until now because we wanted to share with our Fair Park family today on Adoption Sunday. Our FP family was so happy and excited for us. Thank you to our FP family, our family and friends that have made this journey possible. Please continue to pray for us as God continues to grow our family.

I am sure that our neighbors think we are crazy for already decorating for Christmas but it must be done now. All decorations are up and presents are wrapped. I don't know that I have every had a present wrapped in November or a tree up this early.

Time is being spent now to get our child's room ready, pack our suitcases and make sure that all details with Morgan and Mitchell are done, lose ends taken care of and work is all planned and covered. Wow! Have I made you tired yet? All of this is worth making a difference in a child's life and the life of our family.

Keep posted to our blog.

We Love you All!