We have an appointment with SDA 12 noon Thursday October 15th! WOW!
We can hardly believe it! The day of meeting the girls is almost here! We will need to leave probably the 13th to allow for travel time and to get there a day ahead to take care of business with Sergiy.
Sergiy has told us we will probably get clearance to meet with only one girl at a time. This means we'll have to meet at SDA, get clearance for one girl, travel to Makeevka, meet her and spend perhaps 2 weeks with her. THEN we'll have to travel back to SDA, get the other clearance, go back to Makeevka, etc. That would be positively horrible! Can you imagine how the girl we did not get clearance to see would feel? We're in the orphanage but can not see her????!!?? They have waited just as long to meet us, as we have them. That seems horribly cruel. Sergiy will try his best to get both clearances at the same time. But because they are not related, this is the way they do things in Ukraine. Ugh!
Please pray things go smoothly as we transition to leave. Pray for our children we leave here in the States. Pray for our business that it too will run smoothly while we are gone. Pray for Sue & her family, who will be caring for our home & daughters while we are gone (her family will be doing without her for the entire time we are in Ukraine!). Pray for our ministries in our absence (we love them and will miss all those we work with!). Pray for Sergiy and his family. And of course, please pray for Ola and Vala - they are meeting strangers they are planning, with great faith, to spend the rest of their lives with! How terribly frightened they must be! They are told how to act and what to say and not to say. We actually will meet the "real" girls a couple of weeks after we get home. Pray the trust us and will learn to rely on us as parents and guardians. We're sure they have had very few they can trust in many, many years.
We are excited about the future days and weeks! Thanks for following along!
God bless you and yours,
John & Jenn
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