Home Study Update

After more than a month of work, it looks like our home study has been approved by our facilitator in Ukraine. What does that mean? It means that we can submit it to the authorities here in the US for approval. (I600a application) This can take 60-90 days. Part of the process includes fingerprinting. We will get an appointment card in the mail to do that through the FBI office in Oklahoma City. Please join us in prayer that our application will be approved quickly! Just as soon as we're approved, we can send our dossier to Ukraine. Because we were able to scan our home study and send it to our facilitator, she will go ahead and begin work to have it translated. My bold prayer this time around is that we will be able to send our dossier by September! Join me, please. I read the parable of the persistent widow early this morning. Before church, I received the email that our facilitator said our home study looked ready. What's God trying to tell me? All that persistent prayer is paying off. My father hears my pleas and wants justice for his sons in Ukraine. Before all of this started, he gave me another opportunity to pray boldly and persistently. My mother is now cancer-free. Praise God! He hears his children! While I don't believe that He always answers yes, boy isn't it great when our desires and His will line up? I believe God "sets the lonely in families." And I believe He has chosen ours for these boys. Thank you for your encouragement and support.