Back to the starting point to wrap things up!
Hello all!
Today was a day to settle for a couple of days into a Kyiv apartment and visit friends! We arrived around 8:00 into the Kyiv train station and loaded all of our bags into a rented van. We got to the apartment in downtown Kyiv and it was great. We then headed out to take the metro one stop over (we thought) to Hillsong Kyiv’s 10:00 church service. We have been looking forward to being there for as long as we have been doing our adoption process. Our pastor’s in VaBch are from Hillsong Australia and hosted the pastors of Hillsong Kyiv to our church. We quickly learned the English version of the metro map was doing us no good. We also tried to ask for directions to the one stop we needed and received directions (in Russian) which didn’t seem like just one stop over. So, we decided to take a cab. We arrived about 30 minutes late, but it was a wonderful time. We visited with some of the team who spoke English and listened to the sermon on the translator head sets. We also purchased a couple of CD’s for the girls to take back home from the Hillsong Kyiv kids and praise and worship selection.
We then took the metro station again and this time arrived at Anya’s stop successfully!! Praise God. We had a wonderful visit with our friend of two years and her husband, baby and Babouska (84 years old). The girls decorated Anya and Victor’s Christmas tree and we also planned our time out tomorrow.
We took a cab to Steve and Kristie Weber’s home for a pizza dinner at 7:00. Steve is the head of CBN Kyiv, also called Mission Emmanuel. We had a wonderful time and were able to meet all six of their children, three of whom are adopted. The children played for several hours while the adults visited and exchanged adoption stories about the children and the system. We were also able to borrow their internet phone and call to change our flight home one day earlier!!! God is so good. We are thrilled. We added another leg to the trip which now routes through DC, so please pray for excellent weather and no delays or cancellations. This change will also allow the girls to spend a day with Grandma Elaine Hughes, who has been with the kids at home for a month, instead of 6 hours before heading back to GA.
Tomorrow we are going to have the girls American medical exams done and pray we have time for the embassy appointment.
We really enjoyed tucking our three new daughters into bed tonight and saying prayers with them. They were excited to settle into bed after a long train ride last night and a day of visiting so many wonderful friends whom God has sent into our lives to make this adoption process possible. Wow, it is hard to believe we will only have two more days left in the Ukraine before heading back to the rest of our family.
God’s love and blessings to you all!
Dan and Julie
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