COMING FULL CIRCLE

When the car pulled away from Orphanage #4, Tomsk, Siberia, Russia in the early morning hours of November 28,2003 for the airport, my newly adopted 11 year old son, Vlad, was with me and the faces of some of his friends were in the window watching us go. I've thought about those boys often and have seen many of them as I have been back on Conference mission trips with the Marvin team three times since. My son has never wanted to go back with me until this year. He's now 17, 6'5 and will be a high school senior here in Houston in the fall. It hasn't been an easy journey for us but we've made it to this point together. Vlad has a heart for helping others and has already been on a mission trip to Jamaica this summer and was a student helper with the 6th grade VBS class last week. He relates really well to children and I am eager to watch him minister to those in his old home #4 where we'll be staying in Tomsk. Vlad is God's gift and the light of my life. John