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June 30, 2009 |
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After 51 hours of travel time (including two overnight layovers),
Katie and I returned home from Ukraine early Monday morning. Tomorrow,
Wednesday, we'll begin our two-day drive out to California. This is one
crazy summer.
We'll spend the night in Phoenix
visiting some of our teammates' supporters, and then finish the drive
to San Jose on Thursday night to spend several days with my parents.
I'll also be preaching at their congregation Sunday morning and get to
speak with them some about our support needs. We are grateful for that.
After visiting my parents, we'll drive up to the Placerville area and
spend some time with Katie's family. After that, we'll head to Reno to
see my family again and some old friends. After that, we'll
head to the Tahoe Family Encampment for a few days of fun before we
drive back to Lubbock in time for the AIM staff retreat. Whew! I'm
tired from just having to type it.
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June 25, 2009 |
I had no idea how much I really needed to visit Mariupol this trip. Our
week there was so encouraging from hour one. It was so good to see how
many people had grown spiritually, and it was so good to visit so many
of our friends and Christian family. God has blessed us so much by
bringing us here this summer, and I love him more for it.
Katie
and I traveled back to Mariupol with Sasha last Sunday night. We spent
the next four days trying to spend time with as many people as we
could, yet at the same time we felt a little like we were on vacation.
We didn't have anywhere to rush to in the mornings and spent our
evenings before bed reading books. It was strange to be there because
it wasn't, and as we spent our days doing much of what we did for so
long, it was easy to forget we have been gone for an entire year now.
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June 11, 2009 |
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The days have been passing nicely. Yesterday, though, the temperatures
began to rise quite a bit. Today we are supposed to get up to 94, and
as we sit inside the apartment at 11:00 A.M., I'm a little nervous.
Life
feels a little different when you don't own an air conditioner. The
only relief we get is walking into a store that has it, or when we are
waiting for a metro train deep underground. Or when the fan finally
oscillates to my side of the room again.
Yesterday
we went out exploring another part of the city we are interested living
in. We've looked at three so far, and two of them Katie and I have
liked pretty well. There was one area that was well located next to a
metro, a grocery store, and a market. These things are important to
Katie and me, as we don't plan to get a car when we move here.
"Little"
Sasha will arrive here in Kharkov on Saturday and will spend the
weekend with us here. Katie and I are both very excited to see him so
soon. We'll ride with him back to Mariupol on the train Sunday night,
and spend the rest of that week with our friends there. We'll also
spend the week staying in our old apartment, which makes this whole
trip feel a little like a return home.
Katie
is out at a coffee shop with the girls on the team, and us guys did the
same on Tuesday. We have a good team, and we are thankful to God for
that. I am so excited to see what God will accomplish through us over
these next six years.
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June 07, 2009 |
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Katie and I have now been in Kharkov for one week. We're over jet
lag and are now enjoying the days and the nights like normal people
should.
It's been good to be here, and it's
been a lot more enjoyable to experience this city in the warm summer
months. The temperature has been hovering around the upper eighties for
most of this last week, so walking everywhere we go has been very nice
for sure. I do like this city a lot, but every now and then I get
irritated with how big it is and I long for a smaller place; namely,
Mariupol.
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May 23, 2009 |
Things have been particularly quiet around this blog lately. Katie and
I have been pretty busy over the last several weeks; she has been
working mornings at a local children's boutique and I have been
spending the mornings working on a variety of projects for other
people. Yesterday was my first official day being done with anything
pressing, and that feels good.
We only have more day working with the children at the Kids' Cafe this
school year. Unfortunately, we have been having some pretty bad days
lately (a group of boys that are getting more obnoxious as they grow
older), and it makes me sad to be ending the year like that. Katie and
I are actually going out with a couple of the kids (a brother and
sister) this afternoon, and we are excited to spend time with them. We
also have a big end-of-the-year party planned for a our last day
together on Tuesday which should be fun.
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