Today Marianne becomes Hannah Marianne. We picked up Vadim last night and on Tuesday we picked Fhina up at the airport. They are here to adopt Marianne. Vadim immigrated from Russia to the United States with his family when he was a teenager, and Fhina is from here in the Philippines. They live in California. These are pictures of their first meeting with Marianne.

Fhina is a graduate of the Asian Theological Seminary, one of the schools that has invited me to come teach. She works in children's education and together they do regular medical mission trips here to the Philippines.

Today when we were going to lunch Fhina said, 'Starting this week everything in our life changes. We've been just us for how many years? Nine years.' It's always such a thrill for us to be with families when they undergo such radical change.