Finally in Ukraine!!

After 2 long red eye flights, our team arrived in Ukraine on Friday afternoon, July 20th.  I am just now getting to post on here because we have very little internet access and we are very busy doing the Lord's work.


We're playing with orphans every day but also doing pretty heavy construction for the orphanage.  We are building a bicycle track for the kids (basically we dug the path, filled with dirt, put in the forms, filled with gravel and laid metal nets down)  Tomorrow we will lay concrete and then later remove the forms to reveal the finished product!  I have never worked this hard in the last year at least.  Every day there is a multitude of back-breaking work to be done.  I constantly stop and pray for strength, because I am not used to this kind of work and I need God's strength to continue in my joy while we work so hard, sweat, bleed (I've had a few cuts), get really dirty, and really sore all over. We have a week left of this and we need God's strength!  Every day we are exhausted, yet everybody works so hard and is so joyful.  It is amazing to see what God is doing in our hearts as we work!  


In addition to the character growth because of all the work, we have also had the opportunity to evangelize to many of the locals, who stop by and wonder what we're doing!  We visited a woman and shared the gospel with her and she repented.  We also committed to bring her food every morning because she is very poor and doesn't have much to eat every day.

We will continue to meet with her and read the Bible to her every day while we're here in this village, because she is almost blind and can not read.


More updates to come later, but please pray for strength and joy for our team!
Thank you Lord for all the work you have accomplished this week!!