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Survivor Titus

Well, we are nearly finished with the first 3 weeks of the training program. This is exciting because the theory (classroom) part is over and now we will get out into the real world and teach people.

Some of the special characteristics of this particular program:
– of 9 participants and 9 staff, we represent 9 different countries (Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Netherlands, Germany, Russia, Ukraine, Canada) – wow!
– many of us went to see a ballet in Kyiv, perhaps you’ve heard of the Vienna Waltz
– of 15 class days, 7 of them were spent without electricity in the classroom, this also meant no hot water… (thus the title: Titus Survivor)
– this is the first ever Titus Project to run in Kyiv, Ukraine – also, it is the first ever Russian program to run! YAY!

It has been a great training time – as a group we’ve learned the core elements of teaching, had opportunities to practice, been encouraged, critiqued so we improve… let’s go out and do it!

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Be My Valentine

We are leading Titus Project training program right now, first time ever in Ukraine, first time ever in Russian, first time ever with 9 staff for 9 participants, first time … there are a lot of firsts here! One of those firsts for us is co-leading a team with someone.

So we’re really excited to be leading together with Valya (“Valentina”). We will head to Georgia when the 3 weeks of training are finished. Actually, Valya has done much of the work setting up outreach, including scheduling and budgeting. God was very gracious in providing her for our team, because on it we have another family (from Netherlands) like ours (a family with a little boy and girl) and another lady named Luba who only speaks Russian. We may look kinda funny, lots of kids and not so youthie (the “y” in ywam is supposed to stand for youth), but that won’t stop us – or more importantly, it won’t stop God from touching peoples lives! Thanks for being a part of our team Valya!

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What a day!

Happy anniversary. 9 Years. It was a really long day, not the best anniversary yet, that’s for sure. But we’re surrounded by
people who care, they found out yesterday and brought a little cake today for the whole school to share. Ever feel like you’re surrounded by really great people? We do. We always have been. What thing could one possess that is more precious than incredible people? We think .. very little. Very little indeed. We are blessed!

Speaking of school. We’ll put up some pictures soon, but we have 9 participants and 9 staff – almost all of whom will be leaving in 2 weeks for other places in Europe and Asia to preach and teach about Jesus. Pretty awesome. Thanks for helping us do this with our lives!