Updates
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Recently I posted this picture to Angela. It was Feb 14, typically known as Valentine’s Day in Canada. A day to woo your woman, let her know your undying love for her, and pay out the roof for a rose or dozen. Well, here in Ukraine, Valentine’s Day hasn’t yet taken off (though it is…
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Every year on February 1st I (Angela) celebrate the fact that I no longer have to walk in guilt and shame, but that Christ took that to the cross because of love for me and the whole of the human race. I recently read this illustration while I was preparing for a sermon and it…
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Two months flies by and it is with a sad heart that we say bye bye Becky. It’s been such a pleasure to have you here with us! Becky lives at the front of the property and we live at the back so the other day, Becky was coming back to join us for dinner.…
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This is the grand unveiling. It probably goes without saying but we are so very blessed to have this gift. Thank you, all of you, who have given so that we have a home here on the YWAM property that we can live in and minister from. Here in the picture you can see the…
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On of our teacher intern teams was sent to Asia this fall, here is a part of an update from them. Keep in mind that because of the nature of our work we cannot post explicitly the names or places where they minister. Time is flying, more than half of the outreach is already over. Let us…
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Our DTS at YWAM Kyiv will soon be heading out on practicum. One team is headed out to Albania where they will share the gospel, love people and bring God’s kingdom in new ways. They made a video to introduce their team so we thought we’d share it! Enjoy.
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Ben and Ang are forcing me to write a blog about my first impressions of Ukraine and YWAM and YWAM in Ukraine, which is a dangerous thing to do when I am so jet lagged… Luckily, my impressions so far have been good ones. I will elaborate with a three point sermon: First of all,…
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Here is an update from one of the teams that we sent out to Paraguay. Imagine you come to a place as a stranger and after a week you leave friends behind. That happened to us in Indepedencia. The contact with the German family happened so randomly. We went into a shop in the Mennonite…
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Can you guess what is hiding behind the big blue tarp? More to come soon. :)
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Going Fishing by Charles R. Swindoll Billy Wilder, the great movie producer, openly admitted: “I have a vast and terrible desire never to bore an audience.” With tacit agreement Jack Parr once declared: “The greatest sin is to be dull.” Those two statements ought to haunt anyone who regularly practices the fine art of communication.…
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We will find in the Bible only as much as we are looking for: Great things and divine things if we look for great and divine things, important and historical things if we look for important and historical things, nothing at all if we do not look for anything at all. -Karl Barth, Theologian
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It is a good question! We encourage our kids to ask it lots, but do we? Why do we do the things we do? Live in the place we do? Work the job that we do? Today in our staff connection time we asked our staff the question: Why? Why do you do your…
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On of our outreach teams went to work in Greece. Here is a small update from them: We are now already for a week in Greece, Athens, and started teaching the Bible overview to Afghan Refugees. They are amazing. These people are so hungry to hear more about God. Some of them come from their…
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The foundation concrete is all poured and drying. There is plumbing running through it that will soon hook up to the septic field. Imagine two floors above this of windows and walls and you have the soon to be ready home for the Doerksen’s. We are really looking forward to this after already a month…
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With our recent return to Ukraine it seems highly appropriate to remind ourselves of what it means to adapt to the local culture, the do’s and do not’s if you will. So here are a few Don’ts Don’t smile at strangers. Historically, people tend to be suspicious and nothing says “i want something from you” like a…
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It is great to be back in Kyiv! Our friends welcomed us at the airport and today we made it to the property where DTS and Titus programs are in full swing. You may notice the boat behind us in the picture. One year ago a team came from Kilcona that renovated the exterior of…
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Supporters- Mission Overview and Schedule 2014-2019 Of course, you can never really know what the future holds, most of us have seen that in our lives. We have too but that doesn’t mean we don’t make plans. It means we make plans and then submit them to God – whatever his will is, that is…
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Hospitality comes from two greek words: Philao – φιλό is one of several words for “love” in Greek. Being a more precise language than English, classical Greek has a few different ways to express the word “love.” In this case, the word that is used means “brotherly love” or “to love like a brother”. Xenos –…
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