Passport PicturesTaken

How exciting it must have been for the kids in Ukraine this week to go and get their passport pictures taken.  I don't care what anybody says about America, people all over the world, even remote parts of Ukraine, dream of coming here.  And then to be a child living in an orphanage, knowing that soon you will be on an airplane flying across the ocean to that place you have heard about.  Excitement.  But with some fear mixed in I am sure.  Did you know that rumors fly around in the orphanages of Ukraine that we adopt kids from there so we can sell their body parts?  My son Roman came to America the first time on a hosting trip when he was 9 and he fretted that whole 9 hour flight that we would sell his body parts when he got here.  Then to be going into the unknown where there is a different language and new people.  Lets pray today for those precious kids as they anticipate their summer in America.  Pray for us at Grace to Ukraine as well.  I was standing in line at CVS after printing these pictures and as I looked into the faces of these children I was overcome by the sense of responsibility we now have for them.  We must serve them well.  Not only as Christ would serve them but as though we were serving Christ.  May God give us the grace to do so.

Suzette