Great News!

Shawn and Tracey

Tracey, Charles and I at the Black Sea port.

We just found out that we don't need to travel back to Kiev. Our facilitator is coming in the morning with our paper work. We are praising God. He worked above and beyond what I imaged. We will meet with inspector tomorrow morning and than later go to the orphanage to see social worker and Vitalik.

Thank you all so much for praying for our situation. I am very grateful.I also want to thank our friends Terry and Laura for taking such good care of Joshua and Lauren. I also want to thank all our friends and family who have prayed, given and encouraged us along the way. We love you all.

I just wanted to share the good news, have a great day!

Jeri

we visited the port yesterday

Hello family and friends,

I pray all is well with you. I am behind on posting because Charles has been working a lot
on the computer. charles and I joined the O'Hare's down to the Black Sea port yesterday. It is in walking distance from where we are staying. Maybe 10 to 12 blocks. As you can see by the picture, Charles had his picture taken with a monkey. I was surprised at how clean the port was.
This quite a nice port. We really don't have a lot to report, we are waiting for our phone call to tell us when to go back to Kiev. We were told by Friday. I have been reading and praying and Charles is working. I am praising God for our SDA Appoint.

Does anyone have any advice or opinions for us?

Prayer request: keep believing with us for appoint. and a quick turn around back to Odessa. Pray for Joshua and Lauren. I pray the weekends for them are fun and not long.

Thanks for you prayers, they make a big difference.

We love you,
Jeri

The waiting Game

A local bread truck
our new friends Shawn and Tracey O'Hara
here is Charles orderin his street meat
here is Charles lovin the street meat :)
The train station in Odessa

Good evening,

This was one of those days where we just waited and prayed. At the end of the day, we received news that we would deffiently have appointment by the end of the week. That was good news for us.

We visited with our friends Shawn and Tracey today. We had lunch at a local Ukrainian restaurant. It reminded me of a Dutch restaurant. I had some chicken soup and bread, and Charles had borsch soup. The soups were pretty good. They use mostly fresh ingredients in all the restaurants. There is very little packaged foods here. They make everything fresh. We have had some real good food here. The cost is very low because of the exchange rate.

We will probably go to the beach tomorrow to kill some time. I heard its pretty nice. We also move to a bigger apartment tomorrow, we've been in a studio. Its in the same hotel, that will be nice and a change of scenery.

Charles is reading his book and we are waiting to have some bugers with the Shawn and Tracey
at there apartment. We are cooking in tonight.

We have really apprecited all the encouragment that we have received while we are over here. God is so faithful to send such good people in to our lives. We are truly blessed.


Prayer Request:

- continue to pray for the SDA appointment and for Vitalik sister.

- peace and strength for Charles and I, also for Josh and Lauren.

- Peace for Vitalik as he prepares to be adopted.

We love you,

Jeri

For Lauren

Hi Lauren,

How is my sweet pea? I love and miss you very much.
Did you have a good day today?

We are a little bored today because we are just waiting.

Mom and dad are very proud of you and Joshua. Keep up the good work.

I am sending you a kiss.

I'll talk to you soon,

Love Mom :)

To Joshua

Hi Joshua,

Mom wanted to say "HI".
Did you have a good day? did you do anything fun or special? Tell Ms. Amy and Nate Hello, and Tommy.
We are just waiting. We are either real busy or waiting on something.

give Dakota a hug for me when you see him.

I'll talk to you soon, Mom loves you,

Mom :)

Vitalik and another boy from the orphange at the Becker apartment.

how do you like her broom? it seems to do the job!
This was the orchestra at the park downtown Odessa

We are walking with some of the boys from 10th grade to the Becker's apartment.

Greetings,

A few people had problems with being able to comment. I believe I fixed the problem. so you can try again if you want.
We had a busy day today. We went church with Michelle, The O'Hare couple and Dr. Paul and
Tania were there. Tania was nice enough to translate for us. We enjoyed the service, the pastor had a good message. We met some of the 10th grade class at internot #4 that the Becker's brought with them to church. They were a great bunch of children. We were invited to lunch at the Becker's with the other couple and the children from the internot. All of the children helped in the kitchen, they served and helped clean up. They were very respectful and fun to be around.
We then went to the park were there was a live orchestra to listen to and enjoy.

Have a great week everyone,
Jeri

Laid back day

The park near our apartment in dowtown Odessa.

It's Saturday here and we have the day off. We relaxed, took in some sites, visited with our new friends the O'Hares. We are enjoying the weather here. It is low 70's and sunny. They have elections tomorrow for a new parliament. They had a very loud live concert in the square last night.There was a motor cycle rally in the street this afternoon. It is very busy here in the downtown area. Tomorrow we will go to church with Michelle in the morning and be able to meet some of the orphans that will be attending with the Becker's.

Prayer: please keep praying for Vitalik's sister to agree with the adoption, a quick appointment for us next week, Joshua and Lauren that they are at peace,content and for protection over all the families adopting and our families back in the States.

Thanks for praying and blessings to all our friends and family,

Jeri