On our own for a few days......

It is now Monday here. Sergei left last night to go down to Odessa to help another family who has completed their 10 day waiting period after their court hearing. We expect him to return on Wednesday morning. So we are on our own for a few days - but we have been able to get around and go to the store by ourselves so we should be fine.

Saturday, we were able to visit Svetlana again and spent some time with her inside since it was raining. We are able to visit between 10-12n or 4-6pm, so we usually go at 4-6pm. She is still too excited to sit still, and do anything other than run!

We also had been told there was a Calvary Chapel here in Poltava, so we looked it up on the website. The information hadn't been updated for a while, so with Sergei's help we were able to find the phone number in the phone book, called and got the address. It is only a short walk from where we are staying so we were able to go to service Sunday morning. The church is still run by an American pastor, and we met some of the families that are here as missionaries. We also found out that they have been doing work at the orphanage Svetlana is at. That is also an answer to prayer. We are not sure if Svetlana has had any exposure to Christian teaching, as it sounds like they have been working with kids a little older than her, but we actually have an opportunity to go with them to minister to the kids. So we will find out more about that this week. Yesterday, we visited Svetlana and just went to the playground with her. We hope to be able to go today, but we will be without a translator - so it should be interesting.