Last Night

Tonight is Gvido's last night with us. The Latvian children head out of Atlanta around 7:30pm Friday night. Today, we went up to Jon's school to show him around. He got to see inside the school, the field house and the stadium. He looks like a natural in a set of shoulder pads, even though I put them on him backwards, my bad!

He's wanted to take gifts to a myriad of people. We are sending small gifts to his orphanage director, social worker, one caregiver and another caregiver that "told him about God" as he explains it. She definitely gets something! He's also taking back pencils and stickers for his classmates and a gift for his class teacher and his school director. A few friends from the orphanage are getting flashlights. That was his choice for them after I explained that, no, I couldn't get them all mp3 players! Bless him; those gifts are taking away from his minimal luggage space, yet he very much wants to do it.

Please pray for Gvido's safety while traveling; all the children. Pray they will ban together on the flight home and behave. Pray their faces are radiant when they step off the plane in Riga to see there caregivers and directors. I want those adults in their lives to know they are different and it's because they are highly favored by God and some Americans! I think it's such a testimony to them to see how different some of the children are when they return. Pray that God will cover Gvido and protect him. May he always make a way out for him, an escape. May God continue to feed the spirit inside him to keep him from the evil and oppression that is in his environment daily. Also, that God's conviction will be ever present in guiding his choices when he returns home. Most of all that Gvido will continue to persevere and endure, until God delivers him permanently from there, if that is His plan. I know the temptation to run away is very strong sometimes. Thank you for following the journey of this very special young man. A gift for us all this Christmas season. We can't wait to hear from God as to His plan for his future.