Our coupe on the train with our stuff!
Our colleagues Leo, Roni and girls.
Dinner with our good friends the Fedotovs.And...we're back.
There's nothing like a long time away from home to make coming home sweet. But that said, we had a good time in Russia, first with our CMA colleagues and then with our Russian friends.
After our Field Forum, which was, as it always is, a good time to reconnect with our co-workers, we spent one night with the Fedotovs in their home (which is also their church building) in Slavyansk-on-Kuban. One night we stayed at the camp, where we put in so much ministry time during our years in Russia, and were able to also meet with some pastors that we worked with in Novorossisk.
We returned to Krasnodar to gather more of our household goods from storage. We also prepared the rest of our things for travel to our home here in Kiev! Yippee! soon we will have all of our things here with us! While in K-town, we visited our Brazilian colleagues, Leo and Roni. It was very good to spend some time catching up with them. Their daughters missed Uncle "Jelly" and Aunt Kim. We also had the privilege of staying with Jeff, Rebecca and daughters.
A good trip in all.
We returned to Kiev on a 23 hour train, feeling like the Beverly Hillbillies with all of our extra luggage. It was somewhat relaxing on the train, we played ROOK and drank cup o soups. The Ukrainian Customs officer hassled us about our things, telling us that we'd probably have to get off the train with all of our bags so that they could check everything...This is code for "Get out your wallet and make me an offer to go away". The key here is not to get uppity but to just wait them out. In the end he was satisfied to look through our suitcases, make a few jokes about us bringing things like extension cords to Ukraine, and then he let us go without gratituties.
As we drove to our door, we saw our friend Pasha standing outside. We got our things in our apartment and hurried out to see her.
As you know, we have been praying for her husband Ivan for many weeks now, and we were anxious to hear how he was doing. We were VERY happy to hear that he is out of the hospital and feeling better than he's felt in a long time. Pasha said she went to an orthodox church and paid for them to read a prayer for him. This is common in the Orthodox world with the topics of prayers and the prices listed at the door of many churches. Anyway, he's better, which is great.
And that's about it.
Thanks for reading along with us.
There's nothing like a long time away from home to make coming home sweet. But that said, we had a good time in Russia, first with our CMA colleagues and then with our Russian friends.
After our Field Forum, which was, as it always is, a good time to reconnect with our co-workers, we spent one night with the Fedotovs in their home (which is also their church building) in Slavyansk-on-Kuban. One night we stayed at the camp, where we put in so much ministry time during our years in Russia, and were able to also meet with some pastors that we worked with in Novorossisk.
We returned to Krasnodar to gather more of our household goods from storage. We also prepared the rest of our things for travel to our home here in Kiev! Yippee! soon we will have all of our things here with us! While in K-town, we visited our Brazilian colleagues, Leo and Roni. It was very good to spend some time catching up with them. Their daughters missed Uncle "Jelly" and Aunt Kim. We also had the privilege of staying with Jeff, Rebecca and daughters.
A good trip in all.
We returned to Kiev on a 23 hour train, feeling like the Beverly Hillbillies with all of our extra luggage. It was somewhat relaxing on the train, we played ROOK and drank cup o soups. The Ukrainian Customs officer hassled us about our things, telling us that we'd probably have to get off the train with all of our bags so that they could check everything...This is code for "Get out your wallet and make me an offer to go away". The key here is not to get uppity but to just wait them out. In the end he was satisfied to look through our suitcases, make a few jokes about us bringing things like extension cords to Ukraine, and then he let us go without gratituties.
As we drove to our door, we saw our friend Pasha standing outside. We got our things in our apartment and hurried out to see her.
As you know, we have been praying for her husband Ivan for many weeks now, and we were anxious to hear how he was doing. We were VERY happy to hear that he is out of the hospital and feeling better than he's felt in a long time. Pasha said she went to an orthodox church and paid for them to read a prayer for him. This is common in the Orthodox world with the topics of prayers and the prices listed at the door of many churches. Anyway, he's better, which is great.
And that's about it.
Thanks for reading along with us.
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Welcome back! Hope you have fun settling back into life, with all your things from krasnodar! We miss you guys already.
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