15 Dec 2008 The Appointment

Hi all;

So we made it through the weekend, a quiet one on the outskirts of the big city at my cousin's home. It was wonderful to get some sleep and relax. We enjoyed an evening church service that my cousin Ben spoke at.

Monday morning came and we headed in to the appointment at the SDA - it was in true big urban city fashion that we dropped the car off and caught the metro train in. And what was amazing to me was the location of the SDA - on the famous souvenir strasse (there is a technical street name to the street, but that is what they called it the two other visits I was out here as it is a great place to get souvenirs in Kiev)... St Andrews church is right there also, so that is pretty neat too.

So about the appointment... Ben dropped us with Sasha and he took us in and waited while three other families went ahead of us. The one that we saw next to our room was a family from Spain. So our time came to go in and we were presented with an opportunity to introduce ourselves and tell a little about us and our family and where we are from. Then the selection began and we began the discernment process. Well what we will tell you is that we were very pleased and comfortable with the selection that we made (and so was Sasha) as he being a strong Christian man gave us great indication that we were making a good choice for choosing a perspective family.

We will pick up the referral paperwork tomorrow late afternoon and then catch an evening train to an out lying area East of here. It should get us in to the town by 8 am Wed and we will meet the facilitator that will walk us through the meet up at the orphanage process.

Please continue to keep all of us in your prayers!

Also if you could add the Williams - they have court tomorrow that has been a tough process with a new female judge, the Jordans as they drive tomorrow to meet up with a 15 and 16 year old they had met this fall and begin the process to get a court date, and for the Halls that are working on the completion of adoption of four children they met last summer.

Thanks again and hope you all are well!

-Heidi and Erik Brun

New Kids on the Hill is our search and retrivial of our children to our home on Capitol Hill

Well: the story so far:

13 Dec 2008

Greetings from Kiev;

Erik and I arrived this morning after meeting three other families at JFK that are in some form of the adoption phase (most are returning to pick up the kids) we heard some tough situations like one family ran into a female judge that has never done any adoptions so she is running them thru the ringer and the timeline has been 2 plus months. They are remaining hopeful and faithful in the process.

We have tomorrow to enjoy the day and then the process begins as we head to our appt at 10am on Monday at the SDA - State Dept of Adoption where we will be presented with options of children to choose from dossier packets and we go from there.

If you all would - we would appreciate your continued prayers for discernment to know the children when we see the small photos in the paperwork and let God show us the way.

We then will learn the location of the children and travel to see them.

The timeframe is unknown on the whole process - we hope approx 30-40 days but the holidays will come as early as the end of Dec so the govt will shut down and that will all cause everything to come to a halt.

We hope for two healthy children and to have them be comfortable with us when we meet them.

Well that is it for now. We will keep you posted as we can.

Take care and enjoy the holiday season!

Regards;


Heidi and Erik Brun