Isaiah 55:9

"For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts."

Wow, what an amazing week! It is very unusual for an international adoption to move so fast, but God has a plan, and we have believed from the beginning, since we were not out looking to adopt when Kristina found our hearts, that His plan was way bigger than anything we could imagine. And since we did not have the funds for this, but believed He was telling us to do it, that He would show us how to make it work. Well, He is continuing to show us His power because suddenly we went from an earliest travel around June 12th, to looks like May 12th! That just knocked 4 weeks off. I am so excited, I can't believe we will get to see her in a few short weeks. We are still waiting for the final official travel information, but this is amazing in every way.

We want to thank everyone for all you are doing to help bring Kristina home. I can't believe she may be with us for the 4th of July this year! That was one of my dreams. You have helped us raise over $3700.00 already. We now need to raise another $4000 in 4 weeks in order to travel to the Ukraine and complete this next phase. Please, pray about what the Lord may be asking of you, from a pledge, to just helping spread the word of this need, to prayer, or ideas to share with us. We are doing all we know how to do, and are seeking God's wisdom and strength to push on till the end. We still have a hot tub for sale and will take offers. We were asking $4000 for it. We will be putting together a big yard sale if you would be able to help in any way. As soon as the spaghetti event is over Saturday, we will focus on the yard sale. I hope to see you all on Saturday!

AWESOME MISSION: It appears we will have an opportunity as some of the first Christian Americans to be involved with the orphanage. We are beginning to see more of what God might have planned for us and others. The kids are in need of shoes! We are trying to collect 160 - 200 pairs of shoes before we travel. If you have any interest in taking on this mission, we would love help. Also, we may be seeing a missions group of workers going to help build new showers for sanitary purposes as well as repair or replace windows at some time. If God is putting a trip like this on your heart, please contact us. It would be a two week trip most likely. Please keep praying for God's will to be done in His purpose for bringing us to the Ukraine.

Have a blessed day!