The Platter Family

I am not sure where to begin with this day!  It started off a little rough (the ice water shower just helped to wake us up at 2:30 a.m.) -- how I wish that would have been the worst of our day, but it went downhill from there.  It was...

Today we woke early and headed to the orhanage one last time to say goodbye to the kids.  We are truly thankful for all of your prayers -- they were answered in big ways as God did strengthen us in our inner being and filled us to fearlessly proclaim...

We did many special things with the kids today, showering them with gifts and love for our last day here.  We started the day at 12noon going to one of the classrooms at the orphanage/school.  Alan's favorite teacher, Galina, invited us to...

Today we went to see some sights here in Severodonetsk because we can't go to the orphanage to visit until the children are done with school at 2:30pm.  There are 2 beautiful orthodox churches here and we took photos at each one. 
We arrived at the orphanage and brought some of the gifts today, including a huge box of legos that we lugged all the way from America.  These are special because they were a gift from several boys at Alan's school Heritage Christian Academy in...