Not long ago this article came up as a “related post” on a site I was on. The title (“Is Your Church Worship More Pagan Than Christian”) struck me curious so I read it. I wondered who had written the piece and scrolled back to the top only to see that it was written by […]
Philippians 4:6-7 is a great verse. But I have to admit, it’s so hard to live by. I mean, in reality, who doesn’t want the “peace of God.” Vines describes it as “sense of rest and contentment consequent thereon”. That sounds good to me
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I’m writing to ask you to pray. There are SO MANY candidates. There are SO MANY positions and agendas. I can’t imagine that it will be easy for the citizens of Ukraine to make an informed choice that they can depend on. That makes it a difficult decision for them.
We decided to take Micah with us. 1. He loves to go out. 2. He rarely gets to out with just us (Mary and I). 3. We thought it would be good for the people there to see him.
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This morning I sat down get some pictures from our former website (back when we were trying to keep two sites going) and read the post I wrote on our one year anniversary of our move to Ukraine. It made me grateful all over again.
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We have been invited to speak at a conference in Kyiv for people who care for orphans (with special needs). We are kind of an oddity, I guess. But that’s okay. It gives us a chance to talk to people that we would never be able to talk to otherwise.
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Our trip to the refugee center with the students got off to a rather rocky start. Well, kind of. We left the school for our 10 minute drive to the center in 6 cars. I was the last car in the group and was following – since I had no idea where I was going. At all.
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Today I take 26 students to a refugee center in Kyiv. The “residents” there have been wanting some worship time together and we are going to go sing with them for about an hour and a half. We’ll have a few testimonies and read scripture together. Thank you for praying for this special time. Also
The weather has been incredible. Highs in the high 60s and low 70s. You just don’t get any better than that in Ukraine – in October!! They say (who is “they”, anyway?) that this means the winter is going to be unbearable. Well, we’ll find out. For now, we will just enjoy the wonderful weather while we can.
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If you’ve never been in a foreign country and had you passport stolen of even lost, there’s no way I could explain what it’s like. But thankfully I’m officially a person again. The next step is getting a duplicate of my permanent residency ID. It’s several weeks away still but we are heading in the
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