And He Said Yes!

And He Said "YES"!

Steven said yes to adoption.  He was our one that wanted to be hosted not adopted but could not be hosted with the hosting program being pulled.  Joe & I stepped in faith the Lord called us to prepare to adopt him although not knowing the outcome.  And he said "YES" to adoption.  OK I am ready to start dancing with joy put on the disco music, lights and start rotating that disco ball.  This is such incredible news I was running through the house with tears of joy!

And He Said "Yes"!  

Our Soon To Be Soon, Scott

 And He Said "Yes"!  

Our Soon To Be Son, Sebastian

 This Mama is like a horse at the gate ready, on the door and ready to run before it evens opens but focused like a laser when it opens...counting down the days verse seconds.  7 days and we are on the plane, my son Kolya and I heading back to Ukraine to the boys! 

We Are Funded To Bring The Boys Home! 

We cannot thank you enough for all your support & prayers for these incredible young men I will be so blessed to soon call my sons. 

We ask for prayer for saftey in our travels. We ask for prayer for each of our boys for protection from anything Satan may through there way to tempt them.   We pray for all clean labwork and chest xrays so that we do not get "stuck" in Ukraine for medical treatments.  Praying the boys get a clean bill of health so we can get them home ASAP to their family (Papa, Tania and Stopha will be waiting at home for them anxiously).  Prayer surrounding this whole trip and God gives me the eyes to see what I need to see and ears to hear what I need to here to advocate for other children should he open this door.  Praying that God is glorified all the way through this entire trip and He is seen and felt.  

In you, Lord my God, I put my trust.

-Psalm 25:1

Holy Smokes 9 Dayz~!

Yes folks we are almost there!  9 days according to my watch and calendar according to Kolya's we leave in 7 days.  Can you tell he is ready?  

Haven't gotten to talk to my boy Scott since our last call but those words still circle and stick in my mind...."do you still want me"?  I can not even fathom nor imagine the rejection these orphaned children feel with the anticipation and hopes of their birth mom or dad coming back for them and their loyalty to them.  Or to a new adoptive family coming for them and the uncertainty of it all.  Will they show up, will they love me, will I like me, will they care for me.........the unknowns and no trust factor in which surrounds it.......they give you what trust they have which is not real but they act like it is real (their faces say it all) and muster up what they can offer at the time until it builds with your relationship.  All I can say is AMEN and thank you Lord for each child that is willing to take that step and leap of faith allowing a family to take them into their home and life.  This is a step I can only acknowledge and let these kids know how brave I think they are and courageous in doing so.  

9 days.......and were off.  You know you are ready to go when all your bags are nearly packed and lined up by the door.  Anxious to get back to the boys.....Naah....YEAH!  

I do not know all the Lords plans for me when I arrive to Ukraine and if he will bring fourth children having desire for family (I say this because there are kids that will flat out do not want a family or they cannot function in one) like he has on all my trips but my heart is open to see His will and praying for His eyes to see what He wants me to see.  But I have just started a page in which I will be "pushing" for these children should the Lord open that door.  I will be blasting them freaking all over the place should this door open but you can count on this FB page and my orphan mission to Ukraine page I will post them up.  My prayer would be to get them into a hosting program that works in region or willing to take any kids the Lord brings fourth but there is uncertainty if that will be possible.  As the kids I met were unable to be hosted because the program was pulled.  But Lord willing either way I will be advocating whether it be a chance to host or adopt.  So please keep your eyes pealed should this door open.  Here are the main pages to watch:

 https://www.facebook.com/AndThisOneMatters

https://www.facebook.com/OrphanMissionToUkraine

http://pinterest.com/ddewberry/advocating-for-orphans/

 

We have been asked how much more do we need to raise to be funded and bring the boys home, Scott, Sebastian and Steven.   

We are ONLY $668.75 short and we will be funded and then were there!

Joe and I have bought some clothes, sport equipment (football, soccer ball, pump, baseball bat, frizbees, baseball and glove), cards, shoes and other items to donate to the boys school. The school is hurting on any and all sports equipment. It will cost us $140.00 to get the suitcase to Ukraine then into region. If you would like sponsor this bag to help us get it to the kids that would be incredible! We got this puppy maxed out weight wise and have put overflow in our other two suitcases. Any support we would do greatly appreciate! If you would like to donate you can donate directly to diveshark@yahoo.com via paypal and please in the note section put "suitcase". 
THANK YOU!

We cannot thank everyone enough for all your prayers and support in bring the boys home, our trip ahead for them, life at home when we return and the remaining funds needed.  You all have no idea how much this has impacted our family to give more and push harder on advocating for the ones with no voices and not quit on these kids to find their forever families.   Our family thanks you!

  

CANOE RAFFLE WINNER ANNOUNCED TO HELP BRING THE SCOTT, SEBASTIAN & STEVEN HOME!

THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR PRAYERS AND SUPPORT IN BRINGING HOME SCOTT, SEBASTIAN AND STEVEN!  WE COULD NOT HAVE DONE THIS WITHOUT YOUR SUPPORT AND ANSWER TO CALL TO HELP OUR FAMILY!  THANK YOU FOR BEING THE HANDS AND FEET OF CHRIST IN MOTION!  AFTER THE CANOE RAFFLE AND THE AUCTIONS WE ARE ONLY SHORT $1008.55 TO BE COMPLETELY FUNDED TO BRING THE BOYS HOME!  AMEN!  

WE ARE CLOSE.....OK ONTO THE WINNER! 

DRUM ROLL PLEASE.........AS KOLYA IS SUITED UP IN HIS MOTHER'S FLOWER PRINT EYE MASK ARMOR TO KEEP IT A TOTALLY ANONYMOUS PICKING!

 THE WINNER IS CHRISTIE BUFFALOE!

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE BUFFALOE FAMILY!!!!

THANK YOU THANK YOU!

WITH THESE LAST FUNDS OF $1008.55 TO BE FUNDED TO BRING THE BOYS HOME WE HAVE JUST A COUPLE ITEMS LEFT IN THE "MAKE ME AN OFFER AUCTION" SO WE WILL KEEP THAT OPEN.  TO TAKE A LOOK AT WHAT IS LEFT PLEASE VISIT THIS LINK:

  https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.513078288739091.1073741825.486219068091680&type=3

AND 

10 For $10!!!!

If You Can Donate $10.00 To The Dewberrys Tax-Deductible Fundraising Account At: http://reecesrainbow.org/56718/sponsordewberry-3 THEN Turn Around And Send Their Story & Need To 10 Friends Or More Friends THAT WOULD BE INCREDIBLE!
Please Invite As Many Friends As You Would Like To Help Support The Dewberrys In This Campaign. 

To Check Out Their FB 10 For $10 Page Please Visit:

https://www.facebook.com/events/156043717916201/?notif_t=plan_user_joined 

Canoe Raffle, "Make Us An Offer" Auction & Airline Roundtrip Ticket Raffle All End Tonight At Midnight! Get In While You Still Can To Help Bring The Boys Home!

He gives the childless woman a family,
    making her a happy mother.

Praise the Lord! -Psalm 113:9

 

14 Days Until We Head To Ukraine To Adopt These Incredible Aging Out Teens On July 29th!  

Steven, Scott & Sebastian! 

To Read Our Story Of How We Came To Know The Boys & Move Forward To Adopt Them Please Check Out Our Blog Posts To Read Our Story:

http://www.andthisonematters.blogspot.com/2013/06/gods-u-turn.html

http://www.andthisonematters.blogspot.com/2013/06/still-in-u-of-gods-u-turn.html

We Have 14 Days To Raise $1704.58 To Be Completely Funded To Bring The Boys Home!

Wont You Join Us In One Of The Fundraisers We Have In Order To Help Us Bring The Boys Home!?

Hand Crafted Canoe Raffle!  

CANOE RAFFLE ENDS JULY 15th @ MIDNIGHT!

$5.00 A RAFFLE TICKET TO WIN THIS HAND MADE POPLAR WOOD CANOE AND EVERYTHING YOU SEE HERE!!!  ALSO SEE BELOW FOR PHOTOS!

FOR DETAILS VISIT THIS LINK:

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.531766856870234.1073741828.486219068091680&type=3

 OR 

EMAIL NICOLE AT:

DIVESHARK@YAHOO.COM & LET HER KNOW HOW MANY TICKETS YOU WOULD LIKE!  ALL TICKETS ARE TAX-DEDUCTIBLE WHEN MADE TO THE BOY'S REECE'S RAINBOW ACCOUNT!

http://reecesrainbow.org/56718/sponsordewberry-3

 

 

"MAKE AN OFFER" 

AUCTION WE HAVE GOING ON!  
AUCTION ENDS JULY 15th @ MIDNIGHT!

Click on the link or the Ukrainian egg below to view all auction items! 

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.513078288739091.1073741825.486219068091680&type=3 

MAKE US AN OFFER WE CANNOT REFUSE AND IF WE ACCEPT IT THEN IT'S YOURS!  ALL DONATIONS ARE TAX-DEDUCTIBLE WHEN MADE TO THE BOY'S REECE'S RAINBOW ACCOUNT! 
http://reecesrainbow.org/56718/sponsordewberry-3

WANNA FLY TO HELP BRING HOME THE BOYS! AUCTION ENDS JULY 15 @ MIDNIGHT!

LIKE TO TRAVEL BUT HAVE NO TIME FOR AUCTION ITEMS OR DESIRE TO PADDLE A CANOE BUT WANT TO HELP SUPPORT BRING THE BOYS HOME????  WELL I HAVE THE TICKET FOR YOU!  HERE IS AN ONLINE AIRLINE TICKET UP FOR AUCTION TO ANYWHERE IN THE US EXCEPT HAWAII BUT INCLUDES ALASKA.  NO BLACK OUT DATES.  DONATION FOR THIS ITEM WILL BE TAX DEDUCTIBLE IF MADE TO THE BOY'S REECE'S RAINBOW ACCOUNT AT: 
http://reecesrainbow.org/56718/sponsordewberry-3
FOR MORE DETAILS PLEASE VISIT LINK BELOW PLANE:

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=533601546686765&set=a.533601543353432.1073741829.486219068091680&type=3&theater 

10 For $10!!!!

If You Can Donate $10.00 To The Dewberrys Tax-Deductible Fundraising Account At: http://reecesrainbow.org/56718/sponsordewberry-3 THEN Turn Around And Send Their Story & Need To 10 Friends Or More Friends THAT WOULD BE INCREDIBLE!
Please Invite As Many Friends As You Would Like To Help Support The Dewberrys In This Campaign. 

To Check Out Their FB 10 For $10 Page Please Visit:

https://www.facebook.com/events/156043717916201/?notif_t=plan_user_joined 

Do you still want me.......?

 Do you still want me were the first words that came from Scott when I was able to call him the other day.  It has been over a month since we have been able to talk.   I sit here reflecting on our call hanging on to every word and how awesome and emotional it was on both parts.  My tough as nails 15 year old young man that could say "no" to adoption and take on the world and freedoms as he knows it has chosen family.  He wanted to know if I would see him during the adoption and would I stay until I could bring him home.  My answer " OF COURSE"!  He said mum I love you, I wish I could give you a hug and a kiss.  He got to talk with Joe and Joe is already Papa (HEHA!!!)  the kids and Tania had a speal already almost like it was pre-rehersed in her head what to say to him like she was a programmed wind up toy but grinning ear to ear.  You could hear him laugh and speak back with her saying thank you in his calm even keeled voice.  Then he said "Mum I am ready for you to come for me".  I told him I am ready to come for you as well and it's just a matter of a few weeks and I will be there before you know it.  Then of course the Mum in me asked about his girlfriend and I asked are you sure you are ready to leave this all behind including her.  He responded with I want to be with her but I want family so much more and I am ready.  When in Ukraine with him in March and April him and I talked in depth of his life as he knows it, will be, girlfriend, our loss of Sergiy and not wanting to go through that again and this boy processed it all and thought it out and still has stayed committed to family even after his Crimean spring break with all his friends, girlfriend and freedoms he just returned from last week where all these freedoms should be fresh in his head.  I knew if he could make it through that we were in the home stretch.  So to hear he is ready and ask if I still want him oh how my heart melted for this young man going back to 8 years old when his mother discarded him and I could tell all those insecurities for that brief moment came back flowing into his mind.  God is good but as we talked you could hear the security of me coming for him flooded his mind.  I told him now don't you going running away on me because you know I'll chase you.  I ain't letting you get away.  He laughed and said " I know Mum".  He knows I mean what I say and he knows I would fight kick and scratch for him.  I hate that he lost his birth mother but I thank her for giving birth to him so that I will have the privilege to call him my son very soon.  I told him in this time apart if you don't hear from me don't freak LOL know I am coming at God speed for ya.  I asked how Sebastian was doing being they are buddies and he said they are now bunking together in the same room and that he is ready to come home to America and home with his family.  Although Sebastian and Scott wanted us to adopt them both they do not know yet we are the actual family adopting him unless the beans have been spilled that I am not aware of it.  All Sebastian knows is a family is coming for him but by talking with Scott I am sure they are putting the pieces together.   I asked Scott is he still running away and he said no that he knows a family is coming for him so he is staying put.  I told him good keep him there and duck tape him down if he tries to run.  He laughed and said Mum he is not running anymore now he's ready to come home.  Whew wee.  Oh how I miss those boys!  I cannot wait to hug each of them and oh how I adore them.  I told Scott how incredibly brave and proud I am of him to make this decision to choose family over what he could have chosen.  He thanked me.  I told him I am proud of him graduating and how handsome he looked!  He giggled.  I said dude you let the mullet go!  That is huge!  I told him how proud I am of him because he choose a mum to love him and chew him out too!  LOL!  He choose rules and boundaries which he is aware of and still wanted family.  He choose SCHOOL although he graduated and could leave that behind.  He chose family over a girlfriend.  He gave up freedom technically all for the sake of his strong desire for family.  Man this is one proud Mama with this caliber of a child.  Been working with kids like Scott for 20 years and this is eye opening and life changing for me to see and unfold in front of me most could not commit in his shoes.  I was told by his social worker he has a strong desire for love and family and has always wanted a Mama.  She had my boy pinned well.  

Joe and I discussed his name and what he would want it to be and our thoughts if he was OK with it.  We told him we would love for him to keep his given Ukrainian birth name like all our children (obviosuly it is not Scott LOL) but if Joe and I were able to have a son (can't I am spayed so it ain't happening) his name was going to be Brodie Scott Dewberry.  So we asked him if he would take Brodie as his middle name and when I told him this was our desire to name our son this he started to tear up on the phone and said "Daah Mama Daah" followed by thank you this means so much to me.   So I am sure you can guess that Scott should Sebastian want that name, we will ask him if he wants to take that as his middle name.   Steven we will be scanning the Bible for man that was after God's heart and determined for follow him and did not falter.  I am still researching this one.  (:

I sit here and think of my children and soon to be children and all these amazing qualities that God can use for His greater purpose my Kolya......his is joy and motivation.....Stopha is seeing the needs of others and giving of himself........Tania is my compassionate one.....Scott is heart and soul......Sebastian is a strong tower and beacon of light......Steven is steadfast and determined to fight for what is right.  Incredible traits each of these children I pray to soon all be in our family have.  They are each so amazing and I would be so blessed and honored to all call my children. 

Folks we are almost there!  19 days to go to get back to the boys!  Thank you everyone that has been in prayer for me holding up, my boys and support.  We are only $5K short to be funded!  We could not have made it this far this fast without you! Thank you!