God has placed a great desire on our hearts to continue growing our family through adoption. We feel called to take this leap of faith and we have taken the initial first steps. We have signed with an international agency and will begin our home study in this next few months.
For many years we have had a heart for Ukraine. In 2001, six months before meeting my husband, I went on short term mission trip to Ukraine and fell in love with the people and the country. My eyes were also opened to the oppression and injustice for children in third world orphanages. My husband has always supported my heart for Ukraine and over the years his love has grown for this country as well. For almost 13 years now we have continued to support a missionary family that own a small farm and provide a safe place for orphans who have aged out of the orphanage and need a place to live and learn life and work skills. We always thought that if and when we adopted it would be from Ukraine. After much prayer and research this door has been closed to us. The adoption process in Ukraine is very complicated and we would have little chance of being able to adopt a child that was close in age to our children. With some sadness but His peace, God has revealed to us that this is not the right time for us to adopt from Ukraine.
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