First full week

Beautiful country

It's been the first full week that we have spent in Zaporozye (the major city next to our village). We haven't found a house yet for ourselves there yet so we haven't been able to do as much as we would've liked to by now, but we've been trying to do as much as we can. We talked to the lead guy in the village- "sel covet" as soon as we had the oppurtunity and he told us that it's really hard to find a place to rent there right now but that he'd get back to us later (monday) because he was currently busy. When we talked to him monday he told us he hadn't found anything. In the meanwhile we got to know the director of the school as well as one of the teachers there. We also became acquainted with the director and teachers at the daycare and spent several days there playing with the kids and getting to know the locals. The kids are starting to grow really attached to us because most of their parents drink and don't pay as much attention to them. When we asked one little girl if her dad worked, she said- "No, he sleeps at home because he's drunk." When asked if they believe in God some of them say no, they don't while others say they don't know. One of the days we just walked around the village asking people about renting a home there and got a couple leads that we're working on currently.

During this time we have spent some time with the local church. We participated in their youth service and have attended some of their other services, such as prayer. We have met a couple friendly people in the youth that have been a blessing to us by taking their time to show us around so we could be more familiar with this place and know where to go to buy things. The local church here is blessing to our mission trip because we know that if or once we leave, there's going to be someone working with the people that we leave behind in the village. They told us that they would be happy to join us in our evangelism events and offer whatever help they can.


Local youth

Today we found a lady in the village who is willing to take us four girls in for the time being so we're packing some of our things and planning to move in with her tomorrow after we go over some details. We've been praying for God to open doors for us if this is His will and we're very excited about this oppurtunity. She didn't want to take the guys in so we'll continue looking for a home for all of us, but for the time being, this will be perfect. This will give us a place to keep all our things, a place to go between activities and also will give the locals a sense of security knowing that we're part of them now, not just some random people that come and go. This will also give us a chance to testify to the lady with whom we'll be living with.

Please continue praying for us!


Orthodox church. Main religion in this area.


Alex potty training our 15 year old cat.
(came with the apartment we're using, God is teaching us through it.)