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!