Encouragement

 

Danil

Here's Garry with a bunch of the guys (or students) that are in our program, and you may remember Danil, the oldest of our "Ukrainian Grandkids" the one who drove the van into a tree in the yard when he was three. He chattered away, on the video chat one night, showing me the toy police car I'd sent in Garry's suitcase for him. 

Garry says his baby sister, Sofia, who's 16 months old, is very cute with blonde hair. She's a little shy of Garry, but three year old Angelina, who lives at our house with her mother, climbed in his lap five minutes after he arrived. She has learned to say hello in English when he video chats with me. 

Below is one of the Yulias in our house, the one who likes music. She works with the chickens. 

Angelina

Garry traveled to Ukraine with our pastor friend we worked with in Poland, Cezary. While Garry has been encouraging our staff and students in the village, Cezary has been visiting the Ukrainian Evangelical Free churches to encourage the congregations and pastors. 

This weekend he was in Kramatorsk, which is a city close to the line to the east of Dnipro with Pastor Yura. I took some of his photos off facebook of the ministry there, they have several worship services every weekend in the city, in different buildings, some of the building are unheated, which is why so many are wearing coats.

Garry will bring him to the farm for a few days later this week, after he visits a few more churches.