Something to think about: consumerism in Ukraine

For those of you who don’t know me personally yet, you might be wondering why in the world I am writing about consumerism?  Well, first off, I am a consumer, and a pretty good one at that.  I have already ‘consumed’ quite a bit sense moving here and setting up life.  Second, sometime during seminary [...]

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Pilgrim’s Kick-Off

 
Last Thursday was our first service of the year!  Our turn out was great, our students were excited, and everything went smooth for our first meeting of the year.  Last weekend we had a leadership retreat and were able to mold a group of young leaders (ladies actually, it’s all girls) that are ready to [...]

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Ihor

If you are seeing a photograph that doesn’t make much sense, it’s about Ihor.  Ihor is our local homeless guy who has decided to make the student center landing his resting place in the evenings.  At first I had no problem with it.  Instead of going the regular route and just kicking this [...]

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VBS – Ukrainian style

So you might be wondering what Ukrainian style means…I’m alluding to most international mission trips hosting Vacation Bible Schools (VBS).  Yes, you are correct if you were thinking loud, messy, hot, dirty, unorganized, difficult to sing songs in another language, difficult to preform a skit in another language as well as difficult to explain a [...]

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