More Miracles and Answered Prayer

We think we have had an answer to prayer about the great Uncle.  We spent those two days with him and Natalia, our facilitator  and his translator and him asking alot of questions, but we were super nice and said we wanted to have Vitya keep in touch with hiim and we had lots of people praying. At the end of the second day, he said he was willing to do whatever Vitya wanted to do and Vitya told him he wanted to be adopted.  After that, we weren't sure if he would keep fighting things or not.  We figured we would just have to wait and see.  At this point, it seems God did a total miracle in his heart.  Yesterday and today, he came to visit when we were visiting Vitya, but both days he treated us like family and we all had a good time.  The first two days with the translators, Vitya was very tense and disturbed, but this last two, we came early and had some good time with Vitya before Uncle  got there and Vitya seemed much more relaxed.  Also, when Vitya saw we were relaxed with the Uncle and not threatened, he seemed to feel relaxed, too.  Uncle Vlad has also invited us to bring our family back to Ukraine and stay with him. Although we are glad for his apparent heart change, we are also still very cautious and we will wait and see if he has any ulterior motives.


We turned  in all our papers to the court on Friday (with no interference from Uncle) and saw some miracles in that process, too.  Natalia will check with the court on Monday to see if they have assigned us a court date.  We are hoping and praying for a court date sometime next week. After the court date, LauraLynn will go home to be Mom to our girls and David will stay with Vitya for the rest of the process.

There is supposed to be a ten day waiting period after the court to give the family time to change their mind, but we are praying for a miracle for the court to waive this 10 day time.  It has happened occasionally.  After that, David has to take care of Vitya's legal stuff before they can come home.  Without a miracle, he could be there another 17 days after the court date.

We praise the Lord that he provided another caregiver for our children as soon as the other lady had to leave.  She is a missionary from Odessa who is learning Russian at CIU in Columbia and needed  a place to stay.  This was an answer to prayer for us and for her.  The girls will enjoy talking with her about Ukraine and learning some Russian.

Please continue to be in prayer for our finances for the adoption.  We still need $4000 in the next week for the first half payment to our facilitaor and a plane ticket for LL to come home.  After that, we will need about another $10,000.

Will write again when we hear something Monday.