Prayers Have Been Answered!!!

Dear Family and Friends,
Once again God has answered our prayers! He is soooo good. Please read the following letter sent to us by our adoption agency (International Guardian Angel Adoptions- George and Alexandra Goode). The family that I mentioned in my past blog was able to adopt their little one and the US adoption freeze will only last till May. In May the court in Penza will start opening up court dates for adoptions to take place. Praise God! I told you my God was bigger than Russia!! ~ Jera

April 15, 2010

Dear Pre-Adoptive Families,

Yesterday we had good news from Penza -- the David & Karin Owens
Family's adoption of precious Jake (Artem, almost 5), scheduled for
yesterday, went through with flying colors! Little Jake is now officially
adopted. That was an answer to many prayers!

However, the shocking news about the American adoptive mom in Tennessee
who sent her 7-year-old adopted son back to Russia last week on a plane by himself . . . has been most disturbing and caused much trouble in both
Russia and here. Just this morning we heard the news that Russia has
suspended temporarily all adoptions to U.S. families as of this date until the two countries can agree on some procedures, the Foreign Ministry said.

Regarding the court dates for those families that have submitted their
dossiers and are waiting, we have been told by the judge that she will not
set any new court dates until further notice.

A Representative from the Penza Ministry of Education visited with the
judge after the court and was told that some changes needed to be made in
the adoptive family dossiers. Tanya Voronkova will write to us what the
changes will be -- nothing major we were told.

The Judge also advised him that whatever changes are to be made should be
made as soon as possible, so that when she is ready to resume courts, the
papers should be ready. She felt that she will set new court dates again
probably in May. Lets keep that in our prayers that it will be in May.

We will be in touch as we are given new instructions to pass them on to
you. Again, we Praise our Lord for hearing our prayers. He is in charge
we know that. We should all keep praying.

Lord's blessings and love to all of you,

Alexandra and George