Created for a Mission

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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I’ve wanted to send a post since I first arrived but I have been trying to figure out how to describe the experience here.  We have one week left of SPLICE at Mission Training International in Palmer, Colorado. Our experience is somewhat like sweet and sour chicken… it’s sweet making new friends…it’s sweet just being around folks that [...]

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That’s a great question! Maybe you can gander a guess. This morning as we boarded the plane bound for Denver, CO we were on time for departure. I was sitting next to a lady who was telling me of some bizarre experience she had with airlines that delayed her taking off on time. We talked [...]

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     As I exited the New Jersey Turnpike and paid the toll, I was met with a sea of cars and brake lights.  Here are some pictures.  My first thought was that maybe they were giving away free cheese in Staten Island and everyone heard about it.  Bad traffic is very typical for New York [...]

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Here are some pictures of my first snow of the winter season.  I’m sure there is much more to come. Here’s the street where Tim and Amy live. This is my car covered with snow.  It’s a good thing the rental car company in Chicago gave me a scrapper. I head back to Chicago tomorrow.  Hopefully [...]

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