Another great day for us here in Ukraine! We spent this morning at the local Kamyanitsa church, where Vova is the pastor. We gave greetings to his congregation from the Oklahoma United Methodist church, and in particular Church of the Servant. They give their greetings and blessings back to all of you. They welcomed us warmly. The service was nice, all in Ukrainian, and a bit shorter than usual because we were on an unusually tight time schedule (so it only lasted about an hour!). Karen and I spoke for a few short minutes to the congregation.

I'll post pictures soon. It's a small congregation. The youth from the Kamyanitsa church sang for them today.

Then we went to Vova's house for lunch, and spoke with him on end about how VIM teams work, and what the whole process will be for when teams go there in the future.

After that, we went to church again, but this time at the Kamyanitsa church, where Vasily is the pastor. Another good service, and all in Ukrainian. That service started at 4pm, so that was 8 a.m. in Oklahoma. I was thinking about the ChristWays class, and hoping you were all doing well (and hoping Delbert had no problems setting up!) :-)

We gave them your greetings as well, and we were just as warmly welcomed there.

We are still excited about the prospects of sending teams there in teh future. It looks to be a good mission, and they are excited about teams coming to them.

We've eaten ourselves silly again. they keep putting food in front of us, and it's rude not to accept! They think that if we are saying the food is good, that means there should be none left on the table (but of course they cook for an army!) Luckily it's all very good food.

That's all for now. we're thinking about you all. I hope there are people out there still reading this! There haven't been many comments lately. :-)

Stan and I are thinking of the JustFaith group meeting tonight at Judy's house. We'll miss being with you guys. Watch Cinderella or Snow White for us and Mary Alice.

God Bless,
Susan