Upcoming Meeting with the SDA

Maggie flew home Saturday, arriving safe but exhausted. This afternoon, I returned to the SDA, the Ukrainian government agency overseeing adoptions, to sign a register confirming our request to have a second meeting. After an 1 1/2 hours of waiting admidst other couples in the adoption process or facilitators working with couples overseas, I signed and was told our meeting will be next Monday. Our translator/facilitator plans to return on Friday to the SDA to be informed of the exact time of our meeting as well as to see if Andre and Roman's files have come up, meaning they are eligible for international adoption.

I was able to book a return flight for Maggie. She leaves Saturday to arrive here in Kiev on Sunday afternoon.

So many of you have written notes of encouragement and we know many more are praying. Thank you! Your concern for us (and our future children) is so appreciated! Please continue to pray this week that:

1. Maggie will have a safe and uneventful return (she has only one hour in Atlanta to make a flight to Amsterdam but I could not get her an earlier flight).

2. The SDA can confirm that the files of Andre and Roman are in their computer but they do not have access to the date they become eligible for international adoption. The orphanage director promises that it is this Friday, 13 February. Please pray that the boys do become eligible then and the information to that affect "pops" up in the computer by the time of our meeting.

3. The SDA will not offer the boys to others before our meeting and that they will offer them to us. As I mentioned previously, what children are offered to adoptive parents is a decision in the hands of the SDA.