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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!

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It’s Dark Out Here

So we’re starting the training program for Titus this Sunday. We’ve been working really hard, along with our team of 7, to make it an excellent experience for all involved. We’ve been praying together, learning about leading Titus teams, preparing for our participants. Our 3, very full weeks of staff preparation are coming to a close this weekend before we embark on a 3 month adventure of teaching the Bible and serving people from the Mediterranean all the way to the Baltic and across to the Pacific.

One little aspect of that has been preparation for the first (to my knowledge), training program at the YWAM property just outside of Kyiv. It’s been used for many camps and there has been lots of work put in, but this is a very exciting time! We ran into a little snag this week, though, when suddenly to everyone’s chagrin, the power went out, and stayed out. Finally, after 3 long days (long enough for you to die of thirst) it came back on. There will be some mad vacuuming (we wiped windows, but you can’t vacuum without electricity) tomorrow and Friday our participants start arriving. WAHOO! This is what we love to do!

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Welcome!

Here we will be putting up audio recordings of our training program. This is a resource so feel free to download as you desire.

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A little bit krazee!

We graduated our SBS class last week on Friday. On Sunday we flew to the Netherlands where we began a 5 day intensive teacher training seminar with graduates from their own SBS. Well, we’re almost done, but its definitely been a whirlwind.

Although we’ve seen glimpses all week long of our participants teaching abilities, tomorrow is the real test – when they teach Inductive Bible Study through the Epistle to Philemon. Of course there was limited time this week, but we’ve given them as much as we could without overloading them. How will they do, the real test!

We’re really excited for them as they prepare to go out and teach the Bible in many places. Some will stay here in Holland, some will take flight to Indonesia. But no matter where they go, they will be better communicators of God’s incredible Word! What a privilege to serve his kingdom like this – thank you for being part of our team!

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Final Stages

We are in the final stages of leading the School of Biblical Studies here in Kyiv. We have just over a month left and it is exciting to watch the students as they make it through the prophetic books in the Old Testament. 4 out of the 8 students will be taking part in Titus Project this fall. This is exciting because now we can help them to take all this bible knowledge they have and use it to help others grow closer to God.

Personally, we have been waking up tired every day. Each day looms ahead with a multitude of things on the to-do list, and the feeling like there isnย’t enough time. To be honest, we have taken on too much and we have been in survival mode for the last little while. We are really looking forward to a break this summer in Canada.