Court day was USA Christmas day. Twelve day waiting period is over on Ukraine Christmas. Yeah! Praise the Lord who has worked in every aspect of this adoption process!
Monday we start the new birth certificates and passports. We will find out an approximate time of leaving!!
Today we went to a worship time at the EPChurch. After the worship was over then the children put on a program with memorized speeches, a girl who played the flute and singing.
The youth group then presented a very interesting play. It was about a Christian man who fell asleep and dreamed that Christ had not come. His friends visited and he said Merry Christmas but they did not know what he meant. He explained and as he explained, the rest of the youth group acted out the nativity story. Then a philosopher came and the young man tried to explain through the Bible but the Bible was only the Old Testament and without any prophecies of a coming savior. He was greatly distressed knowing that his only hope was in Christ's paying the penalty for his sin. Therefore he was doomed. It was really quite good in presentation and thought provoking. He then awoke from his dream and rejoiced that Jesus did indeed come as a child and was crucified to pay the penalty for our sin.
This was all in Russian so Christina and Kolya took these pictures and heard it all. We had a translator telling us the story!
We went back to the flat for Borscht and then went ice skating, bumper cars and other rides. As we stood waiting for the ice skating, a couple with a 13 year old boy said are you the couple from America adoptiong Christina and Kolya? They had been watching our blog as they too were adopting from Ishmail- forgive me for the spelling. As our kids were ice skating we enjoyed a time of sharing our stories. The mother had actually met Kevin - he chose this name from the movie Home Alone, in an airport, then hosted him and have now adopted him. They too are waiting for offices to open to get passports, etc. I did not realize others were following this blog but we are following others also:) May God bless each of you who are in the process of taking care of God's children!!
Leslie--It was so nice to meet all of you today! You have some adorable kiddos! Can you email me at alycia.goody@gmail at your convenience? This evening we learned some visa-related information applicable to us which we previously didn't know about and which may be applicable to you as well--just wanted to pass it on to you. Or you can call me on our Ukranian cell-380970575172. Thanks! Alycia
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