Floods of Christmas Cards!
Thursday, November 29th, 2007 Posted in General Updates | No Comments »We were lavished this week by our friends at Singles w/ a Purpose. This group is from Fellowship Alliance, our NJ church. In 2006, we were invited to speak at their weekly Bible study meeting. We shared about the Ukraine ...
The Loss at the Lutsk Church
Tuesday, November 27th, 2007 Posted in General Updates | 1 Comment »Please pray for one of our English Camp partner churches in the city of Lutsk. Their church name is God's Design. They were our 2nd of 3 camps last summer. We received terrible news that 28-yr. old Sergiy Dimatrenko was ...
Settlers of Catan & Zilch
Saturday, November 24th, 2007 Posted in General Updates | No Comments »We are hooked on a few new games after our Josiah Venture Thanksgiving gathering. We both like games, but since the robbers ransacked all of our games, we've had low motivation to get back into enjoying them. We taught Svieta ...
Thanksgiving Thanks!!
Wednesday, November 21st, 2007 Posted in General Updates | 1 Comment »We thank God so much for providing us success w/ our visa process! It was painless and quick and we are so blessed by God's faithfulness. It is so cliche, but we really do have SO much to be thankful ...
Photos & Snow!
Saturday, November 17th, 2007 Posted in General Updates | 1 Comment »Click Photos link for Nov. pics. Check out our snow & more posts below.
Pray for Our Visa Process
Saturday, November 17th, 2007 Posted in General Updates | 1 Comment »Our visa process had been a long, toilsome ordeal. We thought we were fine, but we were contacted by the US Embassy b/c the Ukr. law was changing and we'd need long-term visas. We headed to Krakow's UKR Consulate, to ...
Measuring Cups & Spoons
Saturday, November 17th, 2007 Posted in General Updates | No Comments »It was fun preparing key lime pie & enchiladas for an American guest we had for dinner this week. (She's on a 6-mo. internship, w/ the Methodist student group where we guest-spoke last mo.) I had to make the crust by ...
Unexpected Pastor Meetings!
Monday, November 12th, 2007 Posted in General Updates | 1 Comment »In less than a week, we've had 3 unexpected, much needed meetings w/ pastors to discuss who we are as Josiah Venture, and how we can partner to help the local church. Our 1st mtg was w/ our own pastor ...
Gripped by the Greatness of God
Friday, November 9th, 2007 Posted in General Updates | No Comments »Turn to me and be saved, all you ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other. By myself I have sworn, my mouth has uttered in all integrity a work that will not be revoked. ...
Cross-Cultural Baking
Thursday, November 8th, 2007 Posted in General Updates | No Comments »Last Sunday, Svieta & her brother, Boris, came over to make cakes. It has been a lot of fun cooking w/ Svieta over the past few months. We invited Boris b/c he became a Christian at New Life's camp last ...