URGENT PRAYER REQUEST

We are so blessed to be here in Kiev, with a wonderful family welcoming us and truly opening their home completely to us.  

We are in need of prayer however.  This morning, Daniel went to catch his six fifty flight home and was told his ticket had been cancelled.  Turns out the payment information had never been forwarded to the airline by our travel agent,  for his ticket our mine.  Only for Maxim!  Daniel needs to fly out today in order to be at work tomorrow for a crucial machine testing.  Everyone there has been very patient and accomodating but we have already been gone much longer than we had anticipated and Daniel needs to get back to work.  

Daniel returned to the flat as fast as he could, really miraculously, as he had left both the cell phone and credit card behind with me, as well as the flat address.  We were able to pay for and confirm a two forty five flight (over the phone at twelve eighteen) home, via Warsaw, and Daniel jumped back in a taxi.  

Pray pray pray that he might be at peace, safe along the way, and able to complete his journey now without mishaps or delays.  He is going to be one bleary-eyed employee when he goes to work tomorrow, so please also be praying that he will have miraculously clear mind to see and hear what he needs to with the machine and it can be confidently cleared for transport.

Of course, it will be important for me to arrange and confirm proper flights for Maxim and I but I would also appreciate your prayers  that Maxim and I will just both be proper guests in the middle of all this craziness; that as we run from place to place on Monday for his medical appointment and official document stamping, we will be safe and productive; once these documents are taken care of, we are simply waiting for the completion of his passport.  Igor called the day after we arrived in Kherson, saying that he had gone back to the passport office there and spoken to the people on our behalf.  When we had our appointment there the other day, they told Igor there was only a twenty percent chance we might have the finished passport by the 30th.  He was told at this second visit he made that our chances are now fifty fifty.  Go figure.  Anyway, he was told to come back to the passport office after 3 on the 30th and he will keep me posted as to what he finds out.  If the passport is ready on the 30th or 31st, Maxim and I may still be able to fly home before the 6th.  If it is not ready by the 31st, we may have to wait until after the 6th to fly.  If I am repeating myself for the umpteenth time about any of this and boring anyone to tears, I apologize.  You know my heart to get home.  We covet your prayers.

Blessings to all.