Packing up again . . . . . .

 Roma and me - one of the young men who has come to all  our english clubs, sports ect . . . .

  After our last English Club

Wow, the summer has gone by so fast!  We begin our long journey back home to Mississippi tomorrow night.  We leave Poltava at 11pm by bus, the ride is about 4 or 5 hours depending on the roadwork, then fly from Kiev, Ukraine to Amsterdam, Holland.  We lay over in Amsterdam for 6 hours then fly another 9 hours to Memphis, then by car another 2 hours or so to Ripley, Mississippi where we live.  Please pray for us!

We have had another great summer here in Poltava, Ukraine.   We love it here very much and the LORD has given us many, many treasured relationships with the people of Ukraine.  It’s hard to believe that six summers have passed by already since we began to come here.  Please pray for future missions projects here and for all the people who heard about HIS GREAT GRACE this summer.

These last few weeks have been very busy, sorry for not posting much.  We have been trying to spend as much time with the people we’ve met as possible.  We have also been trying to end up all the ministries we have been involved in this summer, goodbyes are very hard, we never know if this time will be our last time to be here so it makes it difficult for us.  Below are several photos from the last week or so.  Thanks again for all your prayers and support.  We are very thankful for them, we hope to see many of you face to face very soon and be able to share some of the wonderful blessings and experiences HE has given us this summer.  GOD bless!!!

I’ll leave youth with one final quote I heard that really fits our family.  I know with all my plans, dreams and expectations that the most fruitful relationships we have come from this kind of attitude  . . . . . .  “We just try to meet people, love them, and tell them about JESUS.” 

 A very delicious cake the youth got for us - It's a Ukrainain flag heart

 The Shevchenko sisteres - great friends of ours

 Outside of our apartment building

Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will by no means pass away.

  Today we were at the Children’s hospital/orphanage again.  We spend every Thursday morning there doing ministry and the LORD has given us a special relationship with these children.  Today was an extra special day because we were able to give each one of them their own Russian children’s Bible.  They were very thankful and very excited.  Please pray for them as they begin to read HIS WORD.  We are so excited about what the LORD will bring about in all these children’s lives; we know HE has a special plan for each of them and that HE will begin to reveal it to them through HIS WORD.  Below are more photos from the ministries this week.  GOD bless and thank you all so much for your prayers and support.  Please pray hard for us and this last week we have in Poltava.

Georgian Mission trip

 

Last week Tuesdae and I had the great blessing of helping put on a camp for Georgian youth in the rural mountains of central Georgia.  We went with a group from the Ukrainian Church we partner with here in Poltava, the Salvation church.  It was such a great experience and the LORD blessed us so much!  One young man was saved and several started to read the Bible seriously for the first time.  We are so thankful to see the LORD at work and to get to go and serve with the Ukrainian youth.  Who would have dreamed we would be going on missions with some of the people that we were missionaries to!  Only the LORD and by HIS GRACE!!!  Please pray for us and especially Dato as he begins his new walk with Christ. His photo is below, he has on a  traditional Ukrainian  shirt that was a gift to him from the team, a present to celebrate his Salvation. GOD bless!!!!

Going to Georgia (the country) please pray for us.

Please pray for our team as we serve HIM doing a youth camp in Georgia this week.  This is our international team - front left, Nastia, Alina, Leera, Tuesdae.  Back left - Robby, Maya, Andrew, Anya, Pasha, and Vova.  It's so wonderful how the LORD works!!! Just a few years ago some of these young adults were Saved through missions projects in Poltava, now we are going out into the world together to share HIS GREAT GRACE!  Please continue to pray for the rest of our team that will stay back and continue to work in Poltava, GOD bless!!!

Sorry for not posting much this week, we have been really busy! Here are some photos from some of the various ministries we have been involved in, GOD bless!! Please keep praying for us!