Any color is my favorite
color. Anything except gray that
is! All of the color is gone from the
city and sunset occurs at about 3:30 in the afternoon. The winters are long and hard, cold and
dark. Now I know why the people here
become so depressed.….. dreary on the outside, hopeless on the inside. Our desire is to offer them the hope of
Christ, but right now, ministry is limited by language. Please continue to pray about our studies as
we prepare for outreach.
We are really making good
contacts through our English clubs.
Vitaly (the atheist who we mentioned in our last letter) has invited his
girlfriend to come and they both attend regularly. The rest of the group is responding well and we have new people
each week. Pray that our progress will
lead to spiritual conversations very soon.
We have received a number of
donations toward last months ministry request.
Thank you to those of you who were able to have a part in this. Our home church, West Orlando Baptist, is
collecting those materials now and preparing them for shipment. These resources will allow us to better
serve the people here through Bible studies and community outreach.
Thank you
all for your prayers and well wishes during Amy’s illness. She is recovering nicely from an
appendectomy and is beginning to resume her normal activities again. Praise God!
Thanksgiving was wonderful here in Kiev. Two other American families joined us as we gave thanks for God’s
provisions and blessings. We were even
able to order a Butterball turkey through the Embassy (can’t get those here!)
and all the other ingredients we were able to find in the market, so we had a
very nice dinner. No Macy’s parade or
football games to watch, but we still had a wonderful celebration. We are looking forward to both of our
Christmas holidays - December 25th and
then January 7th, the official Ukrainian holiday! We will celebrate as a family on the 25th, and then with our
Ukrainian friends on the 7th. The kids
are out of school for Christmas break for three and a half weeks. Our language school will also have a break,
so it will be nice to spend some time together as a family.
† † † P R A Y E R R E Q U E S T S
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* Language school * English Clubs *
Ministry opportunities
* Health and salvation of our
language instructor, Julia
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
We want to thank
you so much for your love and support for us this past year.
We love and
appreciate you all so much! We wouldn’t
be here without you!
Hope you have a
very Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year!
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