While Away from Blog Land…
Saturday, January 30th, 2010 Posted in General Updates | No Comments »In trying to identify why such blog silence (if 2 weeks is really silent at all) is because the first week after elections I realized that weather (-25 C = -13 F) and the apartment are zapping every ounce of ...
They Say We Need A Revolution
Saturday, January 16th, 2010 Posted in General Updates | No Comments »At our youth New Years Eve party, I mentioned (in a blog post) that we played Steal Bingo/Anonymous Gift Exchange/Polyana/DirtySanta (whatever you and your friends call that game) at 6:30am. I was lucky enough to receive a really nice, hard-covered ...
Christ is Born! Let us praise Him!
Saturday, January 9th, 2010 Posted in General Updates | No Comments »Go to Facebook or www.benandkristy.com/pictures/gallery2 to see more photos! The title of this blog is the traditional Ukrainian Christmas greeting. Where we say "Merry Christmas" in the States (which, to Satan's delight, is offensive to many), the Ukrainians, at least in ...
One Man’s Christmas, Another Man’s School Day
Wednesday, January 6th, 2010 Posted in General Updates | No Comments »Today marks Ukrainian Christmas Eve (called the Holy Evening, or the Generous Night). We weren't sure exactly what our plans would be today, since, according to all the traditional Ukrainian texts we read in our lessons, it is a huge ...
Happy New Year 2010!
Saturday, January 2nd, 2010 Posted in General Updates | 1 Comment »We did something we haven't done in ages - we rang in the new year with an all-nighter with the young people from our church. There were 25 of us. But the festivities started hours earlier. Our church here functions ...
Ternopil Camp Visit
Saturday, January 2nd, 2010 Posted in General Updates | No Comments »The weekend before Christmas we had a very successful, blessed time visiting "New Life" and "Druzhba" churches in Ternopil, where we did camp with Blanchard Alliance Church (Wheaton, IL) last July. Like Paul did with Timothy and many of ...
Mr. Gorbachov, Tear Down That Wall
Saturday, January 2nd, 2010 Posted in General Updates | No Comments »Considering our lives and our organization are entrenched in the effects of Communism and the USSR, Berlin holds unique history for missionaries working in former Soviet Europe. A history of freedom, a fight between authoritarianism and capitalism, the devastation that ...