A TIME FRAME! WE HAVE A TIME FRAME!

It has been a while since my last post---- so there's lots of news to share!

Toward the middle of September we got an e-mail from our agency saying that the translators in Russia had discovered that the license of the social worker (who had done our homestudy) was expiring at the end of September.

The Russian government will not accept any paperwork that is expired, so we had to scramble to try to get this taken care of -- we contacted our social worker and she said she was still waiting to get her new license certificate back from the state of Texas. Two weeks went by and we finally got the new license. Then, we had to mail it to Austin to get it "authenticated" :0) Another week's delay. Finally, the paperwork was off to Alaska to our agency.

Well, on Monday, October 26th our agency's staff in Moscow delivered our "dossier" to the Russian Ministry of Education. I got an e-mail today, and they were told that "if they find a match for us" they will issue the referral on December 22nd - along with an invitation to travel to Moscow to accept the referral on January 19th, 2010. WoW!

If all goes well, we will be going to Russia in the very heart of winter in Moscow. Brrrr~~!!

We are so very excited. Please join with us in prayer for : favor with the Russian ministry of education, for a perfect match with the little girl God has for us, and the much needed finances for the next step in our journey.

Thank you for your encouragement and support.