God's Timing for us and our family!

"Ah, Sovereign Lord, You have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and outstretched hand! Nothing is too hard for you." Jeremiah 32:17

Our church has been studying Jeremiah this fall. As we discovered that our travel date was postponed for at least 2 weeks, it helped me to read Jeremiah. Jeremiah was in the middle of an enemy invasion and was in prison when God tells him to buy a field. Jeremiah obeys. In the midst of unbelievable upheaval Jeremiah trusts that God is telling him to buy a field for when the people will return from exile. Jeremiah holds tightly to God promise and acts upon it.

"No plan of God's can be thwarted" has always encouraged me when "bad things" happen. How can I call them bad when the God of the universe has decreed them for my life. His plan cannot be thwarted therefore the "bad things" are not bad for me but His plan for me.

Soooo Dan and I regrouped trusted God and His plan and started telling people that we had no idea when we would leave for Ukraine. Today we received a message that our TRAVEL DATE IS DECEMBER 7th, that is the appointment date in Kiev. We will leave the States on December 4, 2009.

That's all I know right now but we are rejoicing!! We are rejoicing that God IS in control. We are right where we should be and WHAT AN ADVENTURE THIS IS!!

Continue to pray for us:
Papers need to be amended for processing.
Many meetings in Ukraine before the court date.
MOST OF ALL please pray for Christina and Kolya, that they will be safe and that they will want to be adopted.

Thanks so much for being our partners as we travel this road together, Leslie and Dan