Galina and 'Movie Night', day

Hi again,
Thanks for your prayers. You can see by the fairly frequent updates that we're encouraged.
I said below that a whirlwind week began for us last Thursday morning. The events have included: moving possessions from one garage to another (an easy thing when you have access to a pick-up; not so easy in a country where once a month or so you see one and you say, "Hey, look! A pick-up"); an out of town meeting; preparations for the arrival of new colleagues; an evangelistic run to the farmers' market; Movie Night prep.

The busyness will wind down starting on Wednesday night after we welcome our C&MA colleagues Jason, Carolina, Camilla and Joshua Kochsiek to Kiev. They will come here so that we can pursue ministry in tandem with them. Please keep them in your prayers.

So, about Galina. She didn't come Thursday, as she said she would. Instead, on Friday when we took our staunch communist friend, Maria, to the farmers' market Galina came with us. Later that night she knocked and said, "Hey, I forgot all about Thursday. So, tell me now."
We sat and discussed life after death and the biblical promises concerning a new future for those who believe.
She talked about how she's prayed and believed her whole life. In this orthodox country she even said, "I don't really feel close to Mary...but Jesus has always seemed to be really approachable." I don't know where this leaves her. She said as she was leaving that we should do this again. We're trying to figure out how to get people like her and Comrade Maria in for some events so that we can begin to make it a common occurence among the neighbrs to come to our apartment for spiritual discussions.

And, now, on to the "Pursuit of Happyness" at the U today. Since most of the students are economics majors this movie will touch on a lot of things relevant to them.

Thanks for reading this and for participating with us as you pray.