Prayer Request....

When I came home from BUNCO tonight with the ladies, We received this e-mail from our document coordinator, Micheal Arrowood. He assures the Russia families that there have been proposals from the government like these in the past and the agency will keep us up to date if this is anything we should worry about. I just wanted to pass this information along to you so that you can keep us and this situation in your prayers. Here is the meat of the e-mail. When we get e-mails like this (this has been the third one) they usually contain very little information......

"On February 19, 2009 a Russian State Duma deputy from the Communist Party faction, N. A. Ostanina, submitted a draft resolution to the Duma for its consideration under the title 'To V. V. Putin, Chairman of the Russian Federation Government, Regarding the Possibility of Temporarily Suspending Adoption of Children Who Are Citizens of the Russian Federation by Citizens of the United States of America and Non-Citizens Living in That Country'."

When we first choose Russia, the very next day we received an email about Russia's outrage due to a U.S. Federal Court decision involving a little boy that was adopted from Russia whose father left him in a hot car for 9 hours while he went to work. The little boy died from heat exhaustion and the murder charges were later dropped and the father was acquitted. Russian officials were outraged about the care of their children in the United States.

You can read the whole article here- www.nytimes.com/2009/01/04/world/europe/04adopt.html?n=Top/Reference/Times%20Topics/Subjects/A/Adoptions

Does this mean that we are on a downward spiral that will ultimately end in Russia closing there doors to Americans? Or has it always been like this? Are these common occurrences?We have no idea! It's difficult for us to discern what is a small false alarm and what is an all out panic fest due to the small amount of information we are given. Everything to us seems like any day now, we are going to receive a call that says- Game Over, take your business elsewhere. Walking on egg shells are not fun! But we appreciate all of your prayers and your support as always. We are trusting God's plan for our lives and know that he is in control! Not just in our home, but in Russia too.....