Simple Really - Get Visas, Leave Ukraine

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The pressure is all gone.  Thanks for your many prayers, Saints.  The consulate said our applications are all in order, and at 2:30 pm today said, "Go Home, we'll call you when they (Visas) are ready".  After a power outage at home, I called, and they said they believed the visas would be ready in the morning (but you never know).  We are simply trusting God and waiting on something we have zero control over.  I would love to not stay another weekend in Kiev, but at last, all the paperwork and money handling is over.  Now I can just enjoy time with the kids.  When those visas are in hand, we literally can just go to the airport, and catch any flight to the USA.

While I would like to have one more trip to the orphanage, so Anya and Samuel can say goodbye, I'm not sure we can make it at this point.  As soon as I know the Visa status, I'll post an update.

All, please lift up my wife Nellie and my son Zach in prayer.  Zach has been my right hand man in Ukraine...I couldn't have made it here without him.  I'm so proud of him.  And Nellie has been holding down the fort in the Twin Cities, helping with a lot of paperwork, and prayer support.

I'm looking forward to sleeping in my own bed (for about a week straight).

If anyone wants to see the kids at the airport, we are scheduled to arrive at 6:29 pm Saturday, via United.  Nellie will have details.  We have a three hour layover in Munich...I'll try to get some odd shots of Zach for the blog.

Please pray for our kids visa's....we want to keep this flight Saturday.  

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