Dossier Submitted

Our dossier was submitted to SDA today. Oleg says he hopes that we will get a December or January appointment. Pray for December. We are anxious to get to Ukraine to continue the process.

For those of you who read this and would like to help the orphans of Ukraine, but don't feel called to adopt, there are other ways that you can help. One of our favorites is Youth of Ukraine. This ministry involves Julia and Sergey Yarovoy, a Ukrainian couple who have a heart for these orphans. Their mission is:

"The ministry for the children from the orphanages and broken homes. Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world. James 1:27

The main goal of our ministry is to introduce children and teenagers from the orphanages and broken homes to know the Lord Jesus Christ. To tell them that He died on the cross for their sins and that they can have personal relationship with God the Father Who loves them and cares for them.

We are working on achieving this goal by fulfilling three main needs of these children.
Spiritual
1. Having Bible studies.
2. Providing a Bible or a New Testament for every kid who doesn’t have one.
Social
1. Building friendships with them and having discipleship relationship with them.
2. Organizing seminars on such topics as addictions, relationship with the opposite sex

and other essential issues.
3. Organizing sport and musical events and also summer Christian camps.
Material
1. Medicines, clothes, school supplies, toys and so on.
2. Finances for studies.

We think that orphans are not only those children who don’t have parents but also those who don’t get love and care from their families (their parents might be addicts or just emotionally distant and inattentive to them). That is why it is our hope and prayer that through our ministry God will fulfill their needs as well.

To change lives of the teenagers is possible by changing mentality of their parents. One of our long-term goals is to work with their parents and supervisors."

We met Julia and Sergey when we were in Odessa in May. They are truly making a difference in the lives of these children. Please check out their website at: www.youthofukraine.org