Welcome, Friends and Family!
Just a few days ago we announced our engagement to be married! And - Hooray! - soon, we will begin our new life together! We really appreciated all of your congratulations and good wishes. Many of you asked us how we met and what our plans are for the future. And therefore we have created this blog as a way of staying in touch and sharing our news, prayer and praise requests.
Both of us have a strong call to Christian ministry and missions and so it will be very important to have you all along on the journey to support us in prayer. We need you!
We have applied to receive a fiance visa in order to Oleg to be able to travel to Amanda's hometown of Anchorage, Alaska and be married there. The application has been mailed already and will take a couple of months before we are scheduled for an interview. We are really hoping for a wedding date at the end of October or the beginning of November but can't plan a definite date until we recieve Oleg's visa Please pray that the visa application is reviewed favorably and that everything will go smoothly and quickly!
After the wedding we will stay in Alaska for our honeymoon. We are still praying that God would reveal his direction for what to do after our honeymoon. We will either continue to live/minister in Ukraine or move to Anchorage, Alaska for a time and minister to the Russian speaking community there.
Our marriage will bring about the finish of Amanda's service with the Southern Baptist International Mission Board. While Amanda will greatly miss ministering alongside her IMB co-laborers and having the prayer and financial support of the SBC churches, we look forward to discovering what new avenues of ministry and financial support that the Lord has planned for us together as a husband and wife.
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May the Lord bless you all,
Oleg and Amanda
