Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Update from Chernivtsi

Sorry for the delay in any updates, but my team has been getting back to the hotel each night between 11:30 p.m. and 12:30 a.m.

My team includes Joe Wagner and Kara Baker from DuQuoin and Aubrey Bogle and Matt Davis from Marion.

They've had us busy with younger children at day camps which are kind of like Vacation Bible Schools, except they run about 12 hours a day. Thankfully, we don't have to be there when they start.

We've been operating mostly in the Khotin area which is about an hour away from Chernivtsi.

We're definitely more spread out this this trip. Jay Ditty and his father Larry are in the mountains at a village. Larry Avery from Andulusia and Betty Dugger are at another village not in the mountain (I believe - I actually haven't seen them since Saturday), and Derek from Poland by way of Texas is at another village.

Matt's mother Virginia, my mother Betty and Oleta Arnold have been busy here in the city and Brother Bob has been around just about everywhere where we have people.

Everybody is fine. The food is great (both traditional Ukrainian cuisine and the three pizza restaurants we've tried as well).

My team is getting ready to take off here in a few minutes at 10 a.m. local time. We go back to one of the camps when to a church service tonight.

Keep us in your prayers. We have two more days here in Chernivtsi before we leave for Lviv on Friday where we will fly out of on Saturday.

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