Some really, really great news!

So….Shannon is pregnant!  We are pumped, overwhelmed with joy, feeling fantastically blessed, and boundlessly thankful.
Things are moving along and currently Shannon is finishing up her 1st trimester.  All in all, the 1st trimesters wasn’t too bad.  Other than a little bit of nauseousness and the need for a bit more sleep, she has been pretty [...]

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Back for a three week quarantine.

We are back in Ukraine and busy at work but there has been an interesting development since our arrival.  The swine flu, also known around here as the Californian flu (which is a complete mystery to me) has put the nation into a bit of a scare.  Things are slightly nuts.  One of the cities [...]

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Mushroom Hunting

While I have often been discouraged by the complete lack of wildlife in Ukraine, one national pastime that has surely benefited from a lack of  mammals is mushroom hunting.  While most Americans in the woods have almost no idea what is fair game for food, when you take Ukrainians into the woods in the summer [...]

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A Week of Firsts

Time has been flying by lately and I thought I might share a couple of “first” for the brief this week.
1. First Sermon at Pilgrims: Yes, our time of being committed to language without preaching is over and last week I preached my first sermon at Pilgrims. It went well and it seems that [...]

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