Today was a great first day. We woke up and had breakfast at 8. Irpen Bible Church has two services each Sunday morning- 9:30 and 11:30. Our team all attended the 9:30 service and experienced a great service with the Ukrainians. Rob Kelly did a great job preaching about 1 Corinthians 1:26-31.
Afterwards we had lunch and some team meetings to get ready for sport week tomorrow. This afternoon we went into Kiev with about 20 of the Ukrainian leaders. We walked around and saw Independence Square and went to the market where we all shopped. At the market you are able to barter with the vendors so each group had Ukrainians with them to help translate and barter. Afterwards we ate at an authentic Ukrainian restaurant. It was great to get to know and reconnect with the Ukrainian leaders.
Tonight is the first night we are able to have an early night so we are all trying to get to bed early to get ready for a big day tomorrow. Please keep us in your prayers as we have our first day of Sport Week tomorrow.
Happy Fathers Day to all the dad's!
P.S. Since we are in Ukraine the blog website for some reason is in all Russian and we obviously cannot read it. We are trying to eventually upload pictures for you all to see!
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ReplyDeleteThinking and praying for the whole team often and have the prayer cards Diane made on my desk at at home.
Special, "Hello!" to my Intersect peeps! Love ya all!! (Random: whenever I pray for you guys, I always first figure up the current time in Irpen...as if they don't count if I haven't determined the time. Craziness! haha!)
Rob, I'm sure it crushes your spirit to miss meeting Mondays around here...