Monday, June 23, 2008

Why We Go

People ask me why do I keep going back to the same place. To a great extent it's the people. I've spent more time with some of my interpreters and drivers over there than I've seen some of my relatives here in Southern Illinois over the last few years.

This will be my four mission trip with the church to Chernivtsi, my fifth trip overall to the city and my sixth to Ukraine, counting a trip with the People to People Ambassador program when I was in high school.

Here's a slide show of some of the people that we've met, got to know and learned to love.

Saturday, June 21, 2008

2008 Trip Almost Here

There's less than two and half weeks to go before the 2008 Ukraine Mission Trip for Second Baptist Church in Marion.

The map below shows our journey to and from Chernivtsi.


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