What a great time we had in Ukraine!!! Firstly it was so wonderful for me (Janelle) to get to be a part of this trip. We went to Ukraine to celebrate with the 12 churchplanter couples their graduation from the 3 year church planting project with NLI. It was so great to see them and their excitement for the growth of God's church throughout Ukraine. They were also given some assitance from NLI to help set up a small business to contribute to providing for their families and churches while they continue to establish their
churches and see them grow.We spent the majority of our time in Kiev celebrating with all the church planters together and then our team split up and 
went to visit several of the church planters in their own towns and attended their Sunday morning services. Ronnie preached at the church we visited in Sumy (and shared a great word I might add- very encouraging and inspiring!)
It was such a pleasure to be there with the people and they were so excited to have us and spent much time visiting and praying with us afterwards! The trip went by quickly, yet its amazing how quickly you can build relationships (Some of our team have been building these realtionships for years, but we were obviously newer to these folk). Anyways, we had a lovely time as a family together and certainly ate enough potatoes to last us the year (and yummy borscht too!)!!!
We also had a chance to go to our first european football match (that's soccer) and Ukraine was playing Real Madrid Ronaldo and David Beckham were playing!! It was sooo cool- such a great game! I will try to post a short video soon.
went to visit several of the church planters in their own towns and attended their Sunday morning services. Ronnie preached at the church we visited in Sumy (and shared a great word I might add- very encouraging and inspiring!)
It was such a pleasure to be there with the people and they were so excited to have us and spent much time visiting and praying with us afterwards! The trip went by quickly, yet its amazing how quickly you can build relationships (Some of our team have been building these realtionships for years, but we were obviously newer to these folk). Anyways, we had a lovely time as a family together and certainly ate enough potatoes to last us the year (and yummy borscht too!)!!!
We also took a family photo in the Armsterdam airport , with clogs for the whole fam
ily!!
3 comments:
Dear Zerr threesome: It is so exciting to hear of your impacting and connecting with the churchplanters in Ukraine.
I also liked the part of the clogs in Amsterdam. Another time Jae, we should attempt that Holland excursion.Ron and Ed would be more than welcome to join us, add a baby or two and we will require a caravan!![or at least a van.]
I;m so happy that you will have family with you for Christmas! That is just around the corner as well.
Have a super time with Ronnie's folks!!
Bon voyage to our dear friends/your houseguests:S/A/M !!!
Love to baby from Ninna[there's a new one---what do you think of it? Nice Italian[?] ring. What do you think baby? XOXO].
OK-- I don't know what happened,but I think my comment went "public" on your blog site. Sorry baby for exposing our private "name-granny" game.
Waiting for your reply baby. G
Well, I'm not sure how to respond mom- we might just have to wait for the baby to respond itself! Lots of love to you though!
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