Created for a Mission

A typical Sunday in the life of the Baptist church in Dubrovitsia. There are four services in three locations. Two services are held in the church building, one is held in Zarichne, a village about 40 minutes away and the last one of the day is held in the village of Celets. It reminds me of being at home at First Baptist Church of Glenarden when I have served at church all day. It is great because the service in Zarichne is held outside. Today it rained and the service was cut short. The last service of the day was held at 7:00pm in the House of Culture in Celets. After going for two weeks straight, I could not hang today, so I did not attend to final service of the day.

I also wanted to catch you up on where we are and what we are doing. Last week was great, on Monday we were supposed to go to the Bee House, a family style setting for orphans who chose to live in the house. The house is really quite unique because one of the requirements is that the kids must attend church. We were not able to go because the power was knocked out by a storm, so we went to the church and spent the day planning. On Tuesday we went to an orphanage for special needs boys. We did not know before we arrived that we would be ministering to only boys and that they would be special needs, but praise God we had a great time together. After leaving the orphanage, we went to the Bee House where we spent a few hours just hanging out and talking to some of the residents who were home. When we arrived the power still was not on but some of the older teens were home. We did a small craft project with a couple of the young ladies. On Wednesday we visit two women. One has been cripple her entire life and is confined to a bed but she is spirit-filled. The other young lady is 28 and I think she has cerebral palsy. She reads a lot, watches educational movies and was very knowledgeable about a lot of things. It was great spending time with and praying with these women.

Please pray for us as we head to Rivne on Wednesday for the translators camp and return to Dubrovitsia for the children’s camp, the youth events and evangelism. Also, Pastor Covington will be traveling on Wednesday to join Natasha and me for the remainder of our time in ministry here. Please pray for his safe flight.   Thank you for praying for us!

I will post some pictures once I am able to post from my computer.