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        The sky is blue!  The tulips are up!  The trees are in bloom!  First the apricot trees blossom, next the cherry trees followed by peach!  Soon fruit will abound.  The sun is bright and the days are getting longer!  Under the light of the sun everything looks better!  As I have walked around [...]

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   Over the past two weeks, I’ve warmed up the city and now it’s ready for Obama’s visit.  Today was a beautiful, warm spring day.  You could actually venture outside with a light jacket.  I have not seen a day like this in Europe since arriving.  My trip to Prague and my experience while in [...]

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Some Signs I Only Half Understand…Guess Which Half! Men Fishing on Lake Women Walking Babies For additional pictures please click on this link: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=70636&id=550104316&l=0183e5f5f3

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I’ve been getting on the same bus almost every day for the past month.  I have become very familiar with the buildings, landmarks and signs that are along my routes so that I can tell where I am, how far I have left to go and when my stop in approaching.  This is a blessing [...]

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Upon my arrival in Ukraine, I was met by Ivan one of our translators from our short-term journeys.  He was a great help to me and got me oriented to the city for two days. Praise God!  Without him, I know I would have probably been lost every day.  I’ve been getting out each day [...]

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That’s right, Wednesday, January 28, 2009 is departure day (D-Day).  Praise God!  I will be off to Ukraine to begin language and culture learning.  Thank you so much to those of you who have been faithfully praying for me.  I truly appreciate you.  Stay tuned…most likely my next post will be from Ukraine.

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While in Colorado I’ve been exercising three times a week.  Today was the day to exercise and the facility is about a half a mile away from our building.  Larissa (my workout partner) and I walked out the building this morning to find about 2-3 inches of snow on the ground and the snow coming [...]

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  As soon as I got home from Colorado in December, I began to look forward to my trip in January.  I looked over my itinerary to make sure everything was in order.  “Oh no!  I’m going through Chicago O’Hare in January,” I thought.  That’s the worst possible scenario if I want to arrive where [...]

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It is marvelous in our eyes!  During the past few months I have been engaged in Ministry Partnership Discovery (discovering churches and individuals to partner with me in ministry to Ukraine).   Today, the last day of the year I am praising God because He has done a great work!  God has provided all my needs [...]

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Being that this may be my last Christmas in the US for some years to come and I am in New York for Christmas, I decided to do what most people do.  My sister, niece and I went down to Rockefeller Center in Manhattan to view the big Christmas tree.  The best way to get downtown [...]

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