Tickets to heartbreak...and hope

Got our tickets for Ukraine yesterday!

There's just something so definitive about actually holding them in your hands, knowing that those little, expensive pieces of paper are going to rock the worlds of 17 people forever...like it did mine. And Kimberly's. And Sarah's. And Tina's. And the list goes on.

Last night at a prep meeting, we who had been to Ukraine before teamed up with people who have not. We shared a story of a person we had met in Ukraine who had made an impact on us, then we prayed for them, and then for each other.

To the left is a little girl we met at the first orphanage we visited in Ukraine, the "Baby House" for newborns to toddlers. Isn't she beautiful?