Good afternoon,
We attended our orientation meeting with the adoption agency in Indianapolis this past weekend. We learned a lot of things, one of which is that we cannot post public blogs any longer. This is to protect the interests of the children and keep confidentiality. We would like to keep everyone updated and SO appreciate your love, support and prayers. In the future, we will send out emails to friends and family to keep them informed.
Please send us your email address at tydi1970@aol.com and we will put you on our email list.
Thanks!
Rick and Diane
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Thursday, November 12, 2009
The Hosting Schedule Arrives!
Hello all!
We received the hosting schedule for Kateryna's visit. We will officially be picking her up on December 28th from Indianapolis Airport! How exciting is that?! It appears that we're going to have a busy few weeks, as there are various mandatory activities that we will be attending. Since the adoption agency is in Indianapolis, we will have somewhat of a drive. On December 30th, we will be going back for a "Welcome Party". We will be attending a "pitch-in" (what ever that is . . . ) at a local church on January 5th in Marion, Indiana, and going to a Russian Orthodox Service at a church in Indianapolis on January 10th. We will be bringing Kateryna back to the airport to go back to Ukraine on January 11th. I think that the two weeks are going to fly by!
We're still working on getting our home study paperwork submitted. We are hoping to get that completed and sent within the next week or so.
Many of you probably did not know that this past Sunday was Orphan Sunday. It just so happened that I had Vision Night at church, which was an opportunity for those on the worship team to get together and talk about the future of the ministry, meet others, and enjoy dinner together. Ryan, our worship leader, shared about his upcoming trip to Haiti to visit their son and file paperwork for his adoption. I also gave the team an update on what is happening in our lives. Everyone gathered around Ryan, Sue, their kids, and myself to pray for us. What a blessing it was, and we cherish the continued prayers of my friends and family. It's amazing how many people around us are in the process of, or have in the past adopted. We're looking forward to meeting more, as we travel to the adoption agency this coming Saturday for our orientation meeting.
Blessings,
Diane
We received the hosting schedule for Kateryna's visit. We will officially be picking her up on December 28th from Indianapolis Airport! How exciting is that?! It appears that we're going to have a busy few weeks, as there are various mandatory activities that we will be attending. Since the adoption agency is in Indianapolis, we will have somewhat of a drive. On December 30th, we will be going back for a "Welcome Party". We will be attending a "pitch-in" (what ever that is . . . ) at a local church on January 5th in Marion, Indiana, and going to a Russian Orthodox Service at a church in Indianapolis on January 10th. We will be bringing Kateryna back to the airport to go back to Ukraine on January 11th. I think that the two weeks are going to fly by!
We're still working on getting our home study paperwork submitted. We are hoping to get that completed and sent within the next week or so.
Many of you probably did not know that this past Sunday was Orphan Sunday. It just so happened that I had Vision Night at church, which was an opportunity for those on the worship team to get together and talk about the future of the ministry, meet others, and enjoy dinner together. Ryan, our worship leader, shared about his upcoming trip to Haiti to visit their son and file paperwork for his adoption. I also gave the team an update on what is happening in our lives. Everyone gathered around Ryan, Sue, their kids, and myself to pray for us. What a blessing it was, and we cherish the continued prayers of my friends and family. It's amazing how many people around us are in the process of, or have in the past adopted. We're looking forward to meeting more, as we travel to the adoption agency this coming Saturday for our orientation meeting.
Blessings,
Diane
Saturday, November 7, 2009
Our Lives in a Binder
Good Saturday morning!
Rick and I received the dreaded paperwork this week. We've been told that it's overwhelming . . . and it is! By the time that we're done, I think this adoption agency and the Ukranian government are going to know us better than our own family! We decided to start it last night, and got a good portion of it done! We will also need to schedule physicals, get fingerprinted, and get a CPS background check. After this information has been received neatly in a binder by the Director of Adoption Preparation, she will schedule our home study.
Our thanks go out to all the people that have supported us thusfar. Your prayers are SO important! I don't know if any of you have been following international news, but it appears that the swine flu is a BIG epidemic in Ukraine. The people of Ukraine has very poor medical care and limited resources, so this compounds the problem. Please continue to pray that they get this under control for the health and well being of the Ukranian people. There are several families that are waiting to go to Ukraine to pick up their children. Please pray that they will lift their ban on travel from the U.S. so that they can do so. Please pray for the children in the orphanages, including Kateryna and Mykhailo. We also ask that you pray that this doesn't affect Kateryna's ability to visit in late December.
Blessings,
Diane
Rick and I received the dreaded paperwork this week. We've been told that it's overwhelming . . . and it is! By the time that we're done, I think this adoption agency and the Ukranian government are going to know us better than our own family! We decided to start it last night, and got a good portion of it done! We will also need to schedule physicals, get fingerprinted, and get a CPS background check. After this information has been received neatly in a binder by the Director of Adoption Preparation, she will schedule our home study.
Our thanks go out to all the people that have supported us thusfar. Your prayers are SO important! I don't know if any of you have been following international news, but it appears that the swine flu is a BIG epidemic in Ukraine. The people of Ukraine has very poor medical care and limited resources, so this compounds the problem. Please continue to pray that they get this under control for the health and well being of the Ukranian people. There are several families that are waiting to go to Ukraine to pick up their children. Please pray that they will lift their ban on travel from the U.S. so that they can do so. Please pray for the children in the orphanages, including Kateryna and Mykhailo. We also ask that you pray that this doesn't affect Kateryna's ability to visit in late December.
Blessings,
Diane
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Those persistent pigs!
Hello everyone!
As I have mentioned in previous posts, we have been communicating much with Lydia these past few weeks. She is the director of the Ukraine adoption program with the agency that we are going through. She expressed to us last week that she is traveling to the orphanage that Kateryna and Mykhailo are staying at, as she and her husband are adopting an 11-year old boy from the same orphanage. She told us that she would be willing to take some pictures and give us information about their personalities, as she will be spending three weeks there. We were very excited to hear more about the children, and to see some more pictures. (We have a picture of each of the children, but they are somewhat like "mug shots".) What a great thing to be able to get more information about them and see pictures of them within their natural environment. Well . . . she just posted that the Ukranian government has quarantined US travel due to the H1N1 virus and that their travel has been posponed indefinitely. : ( She is expecting that it might even be as long as three weeks before they will get word that they can travel. What a bummer! I feel very badly for Lydia, her husband, and the other families that had plans to pick up their children. It's also very sad that the children have to wait even longer to come home. Please pray for the families and children involved, as well as the health of the Ukranian people.
Diane
As I have mentioned in previous posts, we have been communicating much with Lydia these past few weeks. She is the director of the Ukraine adoption program with the agency that we are going through. She expressed to us last week that she is traveling to the orphanage that Kateryna and Mykhailo are staying at, as she and her husband are adopting an 11-year old boy from the same orphanage. She told us that she would be willing to take some pictures and give us information about their personalities, as she will be spending three weeks there. We were very excited to hear more about the children, and to see some more pictures. (We have a picture of each of the children, but they are somewhat like "mug shots".) What a great thing to be able to get more information about them and see pictures of them within their natural environment. Well . . . she just posted that the Ukranian government has quarantined US travel due to the H1N1 virus and that their travel has been posponed indefinitely. : ( She is expecting that it might even be as long as three weeks before they will get word that they can travel. What a bummer! I feel very badly for Lydia, her husband, and the other families that had plans to pick up their children. It's also very sad that the children have to wait even longer to come home. Please pray for the families and children involved, as well as the health of the Ukranian people.
Diane
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