Church & Update

Well, we all joined our new Church on Sunday - Tabernacle Baptist - here in Gautier. We are so grateful to have finally found a church "home". My husband and the boys will be baptised soon - I have already been baptised. I'm looking forward to it. Our preacher and his wife and children are just an awesome family who we could stand to take some lessons from. We enjoy his sermons and leave feeling like we learned something and we shared a purpose. Have never had such a warm welcome from a church family. All of these folks truly welcome each guest with open arms.

Ivanna update: Our homestudy received it's final signatures last Wednesday, March 3rd. It was FedEx'd to our state facility and received on Friday, March 5th. YAY!!! We go for our fingerprinting appointments tomorrow with customs and immigrations. So you ask what does this mean? This means our homestudy gets reviewed at the state level then they forward it to customs and immigrations where it meets up with our paperwork. So then once they receive back our fingerprints and review the homestudy - customs and immigrations provides us with our final approval. At this time we then provide our complete dossier package to the Ukraine for translation and then they forward to the court to obtain a court date THEN we can finally secure our travel plans. Our hopes is to be gone in April and have her back in May but at this point it's God's plan and we are just waiting on direction.

Ivanna's birthday this year will be held on the exact date of our Buddy Walk --- WOW what a celebration that our little girl will have over 2,000 people at her birthday party this year.

Well, keep praying and keep watching as this story continues to unfold and we see God work in more of His mysterious ways.