The story of Wide Awake International began in the summer of 2010 when Kim Johnson, one of our co-founders, stumbled upon a blog about the adoption of children with disabilities from Ukraine. Shortly after that she started her own blog and has been sharing our story with the Wide Awake Community ever since.
On this page, you will find all the latest news about what we are up to here in Ukraine from the different outlets where we share: the blog, the podcast, and YouTube- all of it is here, in one place! If you want to dig into our history (and have several hours to spare…) you can find our archives here and go all the way back to the beginning of our story.
You won’t find us on social media, so we have created “The Latest” as a way to engage with each of you who has opened your heart to this work. Feel free to comment, ask questions, and dig around to your heart’s content. You are welcome here!
PS: If you want to hear even more from us you can sign up to receive our weekly newsletter where we share stories and photos from each week. You can sign up here.
Many moons ago, waaaaaay back in July of last year (not actually that long ago, but now it seems like another lifetime ago) I had the extreme pleasure of attending the Vineyard National...
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March 31, 2014
It’s spring break! Hip hip hurray!!!! We’ve had such a great week. We homeschoolers aren’t used to this “getting out of our jammies before 10am” thing....
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March 27, 2014
Hello! Today’s Thursday, hence the title “Thursday”. Today is a normal day. Addy and Ezra went to school. I guess today was a little special at school because their...
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March 20, 2014
On January 8th, in the dawn of the New Year, I wrote a post about my theme for 2014: “Let Go”. At that time it was something the Lord was softly whispering to me, and as I...
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March 10, 2014
How to begin? My heart is full to bursting with emotion, yet I feel almost embarrassed to write. We are Ukrainian babies. We’ve only lived here for a little over 3 months. We...
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February 22, 2014
9 Days. The countdown is ON. Only 9 more days till we have some very, extremely, over-the-top special guests at our house. Eeeeeeek! We are so excited! In 9 days our dearest Tom and...
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February 13, 2014
We spent the weekend in Kiev getting our love tanks filled up by good friends, good food, good worship, and fun fun fun. Our kids get spoiled so bad in the big city, it’s no wonder...
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February 10, 2014
