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My husband Mike and I had been introduced to international adoption about 5 years ago from the various media stories on the plight of children in Russia. We moved to Wilmore, Kentucky in the spring of 2000 for Mike to attend seminary. During that period, I met someone from the seminary who was in the process of an adoption in China with A Helping Hand. I mentioned to her that my husband and I have always wanted to adopt a child from Eastern Europe. It was then that she mentioned that A Helping Hand was starting a new program in Ukraine. Our main obstacle for pursuing adoption was finances! However, God opened the door for us with a teaching job for Mike. He started teaching and we started the adoption process simultaneously.

We traveled to Ukraine in September of 2001. We were able to see the culture of Ukraine from a personal perspective. We were able to travel to the village where the orphanage was located. The building was old, but basically clean. We only saw a few rooms and only a selected number of children. We chose Gavin out of a group of seven children. They showed us the children in the age range that we had requested; but brought Gavin out last. Gavin is three, which is a bit older than we had requested, but is definitely the right child for us. He was injured in the orphanage around 18 months old and suffered a traumatic brain injury. From viewing him in comparison with the other children that we saw, we could tell that mentally he was doing just fine! His right hand is semi-paralyzed and he has a slight limp, but other than that; he's doing great!

Gavin has been with us now for almost four months and has adjusted really well. I think at first he thought that our literal names were Mommy and Daddy! Now that he has been in daycare and has seen other people's Mommys and Daddys, he has begun to figure it out. We were especially pleased when he cried for the first time after hurting himself. It was a big thing for us because he had learned to be so independent over the years and this was the first sign of his growing dependence on us. We are very thankful for God leading us to him!

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