WE HAVE A COURT DATE!
We are happy to announce that we have officially received our court date to finalize Aleksandr's adoption.
APRIL 12th!
This means that sometime in the first week of April we will be leaving for Russia, and most likely returning at the beginning of May. This gives us about 6 weeks or so to get fully prepped to go. We are still about $8000 short (every time we have taken a few steps forward, extra fees for extra documents keep pushing the number higher). But we are confident that God is going to supply everything we need. He has brought us this far.
We greeted this news with mixed feelings. While we are excited and relieved that we finally have a court date, it is much later than we were expecting. We know that God has an ultimate plan for the extra time, and we will always trust in that first. But we also know that every extra day that Aleksandr spends in the orphanage is setting him further back and making his transition to our family that much more difficult.
We are going to take advantage of the extra time and have one more yard sale. We raised nearly $1800 last yard sale, and we have had so many people contact us asking us if we were having another sale that we decided we would do one more. We pray that it is a success.
Please keep Aleksandr in your prayers during this time. That the Lord would protect his heart from more damage. That the Lord would provide the remaining funds needed to complete his adoption. That the Lord would prepare our 4 boys who will be staying home (especially Elijah) for the month without mom and dad.
Keep checking back as the number until our goal keeps going down!
JP
1 comment:
Hello Park Family,
my name is Romina and we live near Del Mar, California. I have been following your blog because we have been blessed with the same experience. Two months ago, be brought back our son from Kirov, Russia. He will be turning 3 years old at the end of March. We also have 5 biological children. We would like to meet your family.
I could invite my friends and after you say your story, our group will be happy to offer money that would go toward your adoption process.
I really hope you will get this message.
My email is:
rominacolucci71@yahoo.com
Feel free to write to me so that we could discuss further things.
Thank you,
Romina
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