• Pray for Ukraine!
• Right now Will is in North Carolina. His grandmother died, and he went to be with his family for a little while. Please pray for him and his travels.
• Will gets back on Tuesday. On Wednesday we will travel to Odessa to spend the night and renew some passports. Please pray for that travel, too.
• Pray for the next family coming to adopt. They will be arriving next month.
• We are enjoying our new neighbors. Please pray for our relationship with them and for their people, the Crimean Tatars.
• Pray for Will to be able to catch up on office work when he gets back.
• I have had to miss some time at the orphanage because of Will's absence. Please pray for me to be able to jump back in there.

Older requests and answers:

• Don't stop praying for Ukraine!
• Our landlady is gone. Thank you for praying for us while she was here. Her sister went back to Donetsk, so please pray for her safety.
• The family that was adopting is successful and home; continue to pray for their adjustment. I also know of another family working on paperwork to get another little one out of "our" orphanage now.
• I have stepped back from the person I was counseling. Please pray that I would have peace about that decision, and that she will understand and move on in her life. Keep praying for her.
• The orphanage picnic was wonderful!
• Jaan and Raia loved camp.
• We got a new computer!

New:

• Two of "our" boys were transferred from the orphanage to an adult institution in a village a few hours away. We should be able to visit them on Thursday or Friday. Please pray for them; they are probably quite confused and upset by the unexpected change in their lives. Pray our visit will be possible and that it will go well. (UPDATE: We're going tomorrow, that is, Wednesday.)
• We have new neighbors in the other half of this house. Please pray that we will be able to get to know them well. So far they seem very nice.

KEEP PRAYING FOR UKRAINE!

• My friend who I visit the orphanage with has left Ukraine for a little while, so I didn't get to go today. Please continue to pray for the kids, and pray that my friend will be able to return soon.
• Our neighbors, the family that lived in the other half of this house, moved out unexpectedly. Please pray that the next tenents will be nice and that we will be able to reach out to them.
• Praise God that we're getting over the colds we had last week.
• We still aren't finished with our documentation to live here.
• Orphanages are struggling financially. Pray for them and for us, as we may have some chances to help with basic needs that they have.

I thought of a few more things, more for other people, but closely tied in with us:

Our neighbors have been quite sick, too, and their little guys have been in and out of the hospital. Nothing serious, but hospital time is stressful for parents, even when it's just because the babies have colds, like they do now.

Alex and Vera Fedorchuk (Agape director), are headed back to Ukraine with their new baby and four older children. Pray for safe travel.

Our landlady and her helpers have been trying to get gas hot water put in here since May. (We do have an electric water heater for now, for baths. We're not suffering.) It has been a very long, frustrating process, even involving lots of tears. Please pray that they could finally finish!

We made it to Kherson! Praise the Lord! Please pray for us as we unpack (slowly) and settle in here. 

We're starting our homeschool year tomorrow. Please cover that with prayer. I'll have three students for the first time ever; you can pray especially for Asya as she starts her formal education.

Praise the Lord for the house He provided for us to live in. It is so incredibly wonderful. Please pray that we would be able to live well with the family in the other half of the house.