While the NCAA tournament has been hitting the news hard the last couple of weeks, another very important world basketball scenario has been playing out under the radar. After an undefeated regular season (a whopping 3-0), my team, Ivan Franco University, played Polytechnic University in the first round of Ukrainian Collegiate-Amateur March Madness and what [...]
Archive for March, 2009
Ukrainian March Madness
Posted in David's Detours, Life in Ukraine on March 30, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Pastor’s Conference
Posted in Ministry Reflections, Shannon's Shake. on March 23, 2009 | 3 Comments »
David and I just experienced our first Ukrainian/Moldovan United Methodist Pastor’s Conference. It was held in Kiev, which is the capital city of Ukraine, in the center of the country, as well as where the district superintendent, Bill Lovelace, lives. The conference took place in his home. Here is our schedule for those UM people [...]
Cooking z Icycom
Posted in Uncategorized on March 16, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Our students finally convinced us. Even though we were trying our hardest just to be a presence and work every second of every hour of every day (well – maybe not quite that much) on language, our students asked us to lead a small group one too many times. David and I are now the [...]
Plumbers
Posted in Life in Ukraine on March 5, 2009 | 3 Comments »
A few mornings ago Shannon and I were headed out the door to church when we spotted a little puddle sneaking out from underneath our kitchen stove. No big deal, right? I’m messy and it isn’t a rare occurrence that I leave a puddle in my wake. However, upon further investigation we discovered that the [...]
