Updates
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He’s done it! Note the date – July eight. Yes, it rhymes… Anyway, Kai rolled today, not for the first time but many times over. From his tummy to his back.
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Yes. Yes we do! It’s not a totally abnormal event for the power to be off at our house, even up to a few hours. It happens more now that it is really hot and everybody’s air con is on high. Anyway, maybe you’re not like us but before leaving for the night to go…
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Our friends are out of town for a little while so we are planning to leave a small welcome home basket in their apartment for when they return. We were thinking some fruit, chocolate, maybe a few canned drinks. Today as we told our Ukrainian friend about our plans to put a little welcome basket…
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Hey Dad! I just wanted to write you a little note and say I love you and I’m so thankful for you! Since you’ve been gone I’ve been trying to include Jay and Cas in more things I do, not just getting the jobs done but trying to let them be a part of it.…
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“I wasn’t God’s first choice for what I’ve done for China. I don’t know who it was. It must have been a man—a well–educated man. I don’t know what happened. Perhaps he died. Perhaps he wasn’t willing. And God looked down… and saw Gladys Aylward. And God said, ‘Well, she’s willing.’” – Gladys Aylward
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“And people who do not know the Lord ask why in the world we waste our lives as missionaries. They forget that they too are expending their lives…and when the bubble has burst they will have nothing of eternal significance to show for the years they have wasted.” – Nate Saint
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2012-Jun-08 at 00:56 | Svitlana Tuchynska ** Taken from the Kyiv Post Take a quick lesson on Euro 2012 co-host Ukraine. It is Ukraine, not “the Ukraine.” More than half (53 percent) of the population speaks Ukrainian and 44 percent Russian. The capital, Kyiv, is mostly a Russian-speaking city. While the population of Ukraine is…
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I’m posting this article from Christianity Today because of its relevance to my post on Father’s Day. There is a really great quote below: Frederick von Hugel said the institution of the church is like the bark on the tree. There’s no life in the bark. It’s dead wood. But it protects the life of…
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During the month of June we will doing special feature posts on Ukraine. It won’t be quite like discovery channel, we just don’t have the time or budget for that. The purpose of these posts is to give you a basic introduction to the world of an eastern European Ukrainian. As you may have noticed,…
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** This is a guest post by Mike Hopcraft. Wow! I can’t believe that 2 weeks have gone by. Lisa and I have thoroughly enjoyed Ben and Ang’s wonderful hospitality. I am so glad that Lisa has been here before and that Ben was such a willing guide – I would have been lost many times over.…
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This last Saturday we had a church picnic and baptism. What a beautiful day it was and by that I don’t mean the weather. Oh, the weather was great too but what makes a baptism special is not the weather. It’s being a part of something incredible. What is baptism? Maybe this is oversimplifying it…
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Taking care of the properties used for serving people is clearly important. Whether its a building used for meetings, a van for transport or a beach for camps, the time spent in cleaning, maintenance and repairs is part and parcel of the opportunity to use them. Here in Kyiv, we have a property with some…
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One of our teams headed to central Europe, to Hungary for the first month and then on to Latvia. They had some really cool opportunities, from teaching Revelation to entering a post-soviet prison teaching inmates how to read and study their Bible. Listen to Silvi share about some of her experience: When I looked at…
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I read the list from Forbes and noticed that there were a lot of Russian’s on it. So I copied the list into excel and found that most (36) of the top 100 billionaires came from the United States (not surprising) but that 12 of 100 (2nd most) came from Russia. Russia is not a…
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A quote by the trends manager at youtube. He told his young audience, “We all want to be stars, celebrities, singers, comedians.” Not “most of us”, or “some of us”, but “we all.” Of course, to be overly stereotypical, its true. To some degree we all want to be the object of someone else’s attention.…
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That is the sigh that came out of my mouth when I thought about the past few months :) We started a new ministry team, got busy teaching in local churches around Kiev, and now we are on a teaching/recruiting tour of the SBS’s in Europe. Two weeks ago Angela went to Sweden to teach…
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We try to make this blog a blend of our work that many of you support and follow, and also include events and exciting details of our personal lives as well. I’ve noticed that the last little while we have been focusing a lot on our work and it has been awhile since we have…
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In Georgia our team had an amazing opportunity to teach at one of the only Kurdish churches in the world! We taught the book of 1 Peter to them, chapter by chapter every Saturday and Sunday Night for a month. One particularly unique moment happened when we were teaching Chapter 3:1-6. These verses emphasize the influence…
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The leadership team we are a part of is reading together through this book, Crucial Conversations. It has been the perfect book to read because we are growing and learning together about all sorts of important things regarding have healthy, helpful, safe conversations with people. Our brother Ike recommended it to us and I think…
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One of the teams that we sent out stayed for one month in Ukraine and then moved on to the mid-west of Russia. Here is a quote from one of the interns, James from Germany: “From the training time on God began to show me that teaching the bible and even teaching in general is…
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