English Club anyone???

What a awesome and powerful God we serve. Today we had the blessing of going to a local economic university and speak with 16 kids in one of the classes. It started off with Tanya and Patrica talking for about 15 minuets each and then we broke off into groups of 2 or 3 students per each team member. We had a hour to talk with the students, no preset guidelines as to what to talk about, just talk for one hour... not as tough as you think it would be, these kids knew a great deal of English, it was a lot of fun talking with them. After that we journeyed over to a local missions traning school where all the kids have a heart for Muslim countries and we had the opportunity to spend one and a half hours talking with these kids... unlike the first school these kids did not know English, well didnt know it well enough to hold a conservation so we broke off into individual teachers and spent time talking with these kids and helping them to try and get a basic grasp on how to speak english. After one and a half hours our time was up and we were exhausted. Upon leaving we headed back to Tim and Christina for an amazing spaghetti dinner... All the while the team was out Mike and Tim stayed back at the apartments to work on getting the Calvary Chapel Ternopil Website up... Thats all we have for now, pray all is well with everyone out there.
Team Ukraine

Patrica's heart- Working with the students who are training at the mission's school for those called to serve in Central Asia was such an overwhelming experience. These men an women come from Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kasakstan, and Ukraine. Those coming from Central Asia have experienced so much persecution already for their faith and yet their only desire is that those in their countries would come to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ. One pastor from Uzbekistan has watched over 100 people from his fellowship be arrested by the police for their involvement in the church. Their church has been locked up and they have been ordered to disperse. He asked for prayer for protection for his wife and 4 month old baby that he has yet to meet as they are in Uzbekistan while he studies in Ukraine. Another woman asked for prayer as she heads back in to her region of Uzbekistan where the police often molest and rape women who have turned from their Muslim religion and have put their trust in Christ.

Seeing their unbelievable strength in heading back into their countries knowing the danger and persecution was very humbling! While we were there to bless them, they blessed our hearts just to hear their testimonies and listen to all that God is doing in their lives. Despite the language barrier, these brothers and sisters have been imprinted on my heart!