| English Lessons and Ukraine Feelings |
| There have been alot of funny emotions going around in the Ukraine. Alot of really neat things are happening with our ministry which is keeping up busy in the times that Victor and I don't have our boxing gloves on. I'm not going to go into detail on events as Victor has done an excellent job on journaling the specifics of all of the things that are going on over here. Here is a link to his Journals: Victor's Journals I was hoping to be the journal king, but with a laptop Victor has assumed the position. Like I mentioned the first couple days I felt like tourist, We visited alot of really neat places, like a monastary, and some smaller villages. We attented church in a village outside of Donestk on Sunday. It is a new church plant. It was exciting to see the similarities to the church plant that I am involved with in Calgary to the one's that are here in the Ukraine. We've had some bawling Ukrainian meals at our hosts house. It's a good thing I'm good at Rock Paper Scissors. Only ask Nick and Trevor that sleeping on a floor without carpet isn't the most comfortable thing in the world. Sunday Night 8 of us crammed into Kent's car and drove the hour back to Donestk to get ready for our intro night for our English class. The English class finally makes sense to me now. When we were in Canada I think we all thought that we were going to be teaching english at the university that we were staying at. That isn't the case. What has happened is that a team of International Partners,(missions), got together and advertised through posters and word of mouth to put on a week long english school at a community centre here in Donestk. These are students of all ages, well young adults+. They have all levels of English abilities. We have 3 hours with the students each day, which is divided up into English Lesson, Bible study and Fellowship. Many of these students have never heard the Bible before, and they are interested to hear. Already through our Minisitry at the English school, and help in other area's like the Tent Ministry the first day we arrived, we have seen people come to Christ in their own lives. If we were to leave today I would feel that God has used us, and that our trip has been worth it! Throughout the week though we will be building relationships with our students, with the hopes these relationships can continue with the International Partners, to work into a bible study or even church plant once we are gone. With this we are all learning how effective English is as a tool, to communicate the Gospel. We are building really awesome relationships. This experience is really helping to grow our team as a whole, and also as individuals. We've been thrown out into alot situations that wouldn't be part of our normal lives; Things like sharing our testimony in front of different churches, and explaning why we are here. Teaching english, and even the bible study. It's been really hard for us to work meda over here, as computer access is limited for digital camera's etc. All of those big updates will come once we land in Canadia. We did however manage to get up some short introduction videos, which are linked below: Ryan 1 Ryan 2 Ryan 3 Ryan 4 Ryan 5 Ryan 6 Cerena Lindsey Victor Trevor & Nick Hopefully those will work for everyone, otherwise we will get them up as soon as we get back. Spasiba. God Bless. Ryan from the ukraine |
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