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We have gone high tech - we can now take donations online!

I was reading "Adopt Without Debt" and one of the things it said is that people are reluctant to make a donation because they think what they can give is too little. What we don't realize is that its better to have many small donations than waiting for one big donation. For example, if we have 100 family or friends to donate just $10 each, we'd have $1000 toward our adoption! Please consider making a donation of any amount, it will be greatly appreciated. Please help us bring our children home!

Thank you everyone for your continued prayer and support!

Finding Salvation

We received an email tonight from Tom Benz, the founder of Bridges of Faith. A mission group of about 10 people from BridgeStone have been in Ukraine since mid-October. I want to share with you part of that email actually quoted from Eric Carr, BridgeStone Director.

 “The trip to see the boys who visited BridgeStone in August has been great.  The last night amazed me as we finished talking about the outreach’s theme, faith, hope and love.  Earlier we discussed what it means to trust God.  We discussed hope and the only source of true hope – Jesus!  Obviously, hope and faith are in short supply in an orphan’s daily life.  Through the week, this message stirred interest in their little hearts and minds.   “Early in the week, we passed out Russian Bibles.  One child, Artem, spent the entire day reading Matthew!  He asked me several questions about what he was reading.  On the last night, as we explained Gods unshakeable love for them and how that love brought us to see them, everyone could sense God’s presence enveloping us.  Everyone began weeping . . . we knew He was touching us.  Several of the children – at arm’s length most of the week – began to sob.  God’s grace softened hard hearts and amazed us all!.  “As I invited the children to trust Christ, Artem stood up sobbing!  He looked straight in my eyes and declared, "I want to be different."  Several other children also confessed Christ that night.  (Eric Carr)

You can imagine how happy we are that our Artem has accepted Christ as his Lord and Savior. We take Christianity for granted here because we've been taught about it most of our lives, but these kids are just now hearing about Christ. We are so thankful to the group from BridgeStone and for all they have done in the past few weeks to witness to these children.

Sign outside of orphanage.

This is Oleg & Artem. They had been in a play.

Mission team with kids sight seeing.

Mission team with kids sight seeing.

Artem is on statue saluting & Oleg is off on right side with his arm up.

Orthodox Church in Ukraine

Looks like they have had a wonderful time in Ukraine. It looks like there will be lots of beautiful sites to see when we go. We are so excited and can hardly wait!