Both John and Jacob started life as babies in a Russian orphanage with less-than-ideal living conditions. Like most children in similar institutions, the two babies were malnourished. Loving Owensboro families, one who was not able to bear children and one who felt a calling, adopted the children 17 years ago. Little did they know until the boys were older and good friends, they were both adopted from the same orphanage and brought into the Light.