Amazing Race Results Are In!
Friday, May 30th, 2008 Posted in General Updates | 1 Comment »Well, we arrived at Hotel Malenovice at 7:50am after a 3-day AMAZING RACE through Czech and an all day/night travel ordeal from a small town in Germany, through Cheb, Karlovy Vary (highly recommend vacationing here; gorgeous), Plzen, Prague, (all in Cz) and ...
The Battle Belongs to the Lord
Thursday, May 22nd, 2008 Posted in General Updates | No Comments »In addition to the Ukraine/US Dollar currency threatening a crash before our eyes (it's dropped 10% , we both feel that spiritually, things are crashing, too. We're hearing of disunity among certain teams, we're facing sudden serious financial pressure, disagreements in ...
Missionary Friends from Slovakia Checking Out Ukraine
Sunday, May 18th, 2008 Posted in General Updates | No Comments »It was a pleasure to have more unexpected guests this month! Kenrick and Noah, 2 American guys who are missionaries out in different villages in Slovakia, serving the Lord through youth ministry, stayed with us for a few days and ...
The Passion Conference Goes International – First Stop, Kiev, Ukraine!
Sunday, May 18th, 2008 Posted in General Updates | No Comments »If you checked our blog from Jan. '07, you'd find an entry about Passion '07, a 3day conference, which 22,000 American young people attended. We were there to help promote Josiah Venture, as Passion showcased various missionary opportunities. At the end ...
Advertising in the Classroom
Thursday, May 15th, 2008 Posted in General Updates | No Comments »Josiah Venture has always used English camps as a tool to introduce non-Christian students to active, real Christianity, by connecting these students to the local church. For example, we never do an English camp that is not partnered with a ...
Theater, Anyone?
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008 Posted in General Updates | No Comments »Church was really unique on Sunday morning. We'd been hearing about an all Lviv, city-wide worship service for awhile now, but we've been out of country and unable to attend. This year the committee of pastors has made changes in ...
JV Conference on Spiritual Warfare
Saturday, May 10th, 2008 Posted in General Updates | No Comments »My favorite things at our annual missionary conference in Czech: 1. Silly moments - Ben and Brittney (our new American teammate in Lviv!) were chosen to do "Deaf Karaoke" at the JV family event. They pick a song and have to ...
The Artist
Thursday, May 8th, 2008 Posted in General Updates | No Comments »I have had some amazing times recently with different Christian girls I love meeting with. This is Sasha, the most amazing artist ever. She does ceramics, paints, draws, you name it. She is genius. Check out that nativity scene! She loves the Lord, she speaks Spanish ...
Happy Easter Culture
Thursday, May 1st, 2008 Posted in General Updates | No Comments »Protestants, Catholics, & Orthodox celebrate Easter on the Orthodox calendar in Ukraine. So Easter was last Sunday. I got zapped by a nasty flu for a few days, so I was operating at pretty low level. It was exciting that four of ...