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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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Today is easter, if you celebrate easter with the Orthodox church. It was a week ago if you celebrate it in the west. It’s not that Ukraine is a week behind in timezones in case you weren’t sure. Why celebrate? Because, as followers of Jesus, if he didn’t rise from the dead, then we of…
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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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In an earlier post, I mentioned we would like to highlight each of the teams that we sent out in October. The team on the left flew to Hong Kong and spent two months teaching there and in their northern neighbour. Their newsletter is the picture on the left – it’s a picture because the…
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– Croatian and Split. – Italian and Rome. – Ukrainian and Lviv. ** Kudos to a running commentary by Joshua Walker
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After 1.5 years in Kyiv we have staffed/led a 9 month SBS (bible school) and led the Titus Project Training Program. These are normally two separate entities that work along side each other. On Monday we will be merging these two ministries into 1 team! It is an exciting time of unity, cooperation, and hopefully…
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Here is pastor Rezo.
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Budapest, Christmas Morning The sun is shining in the windows and the cinnamon buns are cooking in the oven. It is Christmas! Cassie and Jay wake up happy. It is going to be a good day. After eating some yummy cinnamon buns (that turned out okay even with no brown sugar), we gave our gifts…
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It depends how you read it. The title could imply ‘the stuff about God you have missed’ but actually it is a book about rest. Our Pastor from Canada sent it to us and it arrived appropriately the day before we left on vacation. We got in the car early the day after we graduated…
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Today was Bingo’s first appointment.For now, Ludmila is our doctor, and she did a great job today! Of course, Bingo is still only 16 to 17 weeks old, so he’s got a lot of growing to do (does the phrase, “skin and bones” mean anything to you?). But we saw Bingo’s heart beating away, 135…
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In most of the places we have spent our fall in the last 5 years, there is usually more American influence than Canadian, which means celebrating American thanksgiving. So this week we will celebrate with all our friends here. (we found out that our friend Becky even imported pumpkin pie filling for the pies… we’re…
