Abigail at music camp

Sometimes she was happy and well, sometimes she was NOT :).

More music camp with Friendship Baptist Church

USA - UA Music camp with Friendship Baptist Church

This week has been tremendous. Friendship Baptist Church came to Ukraine with a group of 23 very well prepared, flexible and energetic young people. They have worked so hard and the Lord has blessed their efforts. We had 20-30 children every day at camp, most of them being non church kids. We have seen some very sincere decisions from our older campers as well as from our smallest of campers. It has been a real joy for Oleg and I to see the Lord at work this week. Tonight is our culmination concert at church. We have invited the parents of our campers to our church building to see what their children have been doing all week. The team has been teaching: vocal - choir, piano, flute, guitar, brass and the most beloved of all, hand chimes. Our goal for this week was to see little hearts touched with the Gospel and to try and make contact with their parents. We ask that you pray for our concert tonight, that the Lord would bless our efforts to reach out to the parents of our campers and that they might see the Light of Christ in us.

Multiple Blessings!

As central airconditioning is unheard of here and window units are extremely expensive, we have been praying for several years about installing metal shutters on our windows. They keep the sun from heating your windows up which in turn keeps your apartment from heating up to cookie baking temperatures. Last summer, Abigail and I spent most of our day in the bathtub trying to keep cool. We are so grateful to the Lord for this truly needed addition to our home. Another added plus is the dark room syndrome. Instead of a 5am wake up call from our little early bird (1st picture) - no sleeping on the couch mommie, you must play with me...., we get the 2nd picture until 7:30 or 8. The Lord is so good!

The Lord's Bounty

After a winter and spring with little to no "real" fresh produce, Oleg and I are revelling in home grown fruits and veggies. If you have never had a Ukrainian tomato, it is worth the trans-atlantic trip just to bite into one! The Lord is so good to provide our every need and now many of our tastebud wants :)

All by myself!

Abigail is now fully falling asleep by herself - no nursing, nothing but her and her stuffed animals. Yeah Abigail!!!