Greetings from Ukraine!
The G-Squad has been in Kiev now for about six days. It’s a great city. There’s beautiful architecture everywhere, the cold weather is a nice change from Africa and India, and there are sixty-cent beers on sale on pretty much every corner.
I’m not sure what all to share. I had wanted to post something before I left India about some of the folks we worked with there, and maybe I still will, though that seems like a distant memory already. Once our ministry finished in Bangalore, we flew to Delhi where we hung out in the airport for almost 24 hours. The Delhi airport is not where you want to be for 24 hours. Then we boarded a plane at 5:30 in the morning for Kiev. We’ve been resting and building a little more family among our 50-person squad for about a week.
We found out some always coveted ministry details over the last few days. My team, FUSE, will be in a Ukrainian town near the Polish border called Lutsk. We will live together for the month in a seventh-floor apartment and work with a couple different ministries in the area. After this month, the seven teams will not meet up again together but will move straight into Romania for another month of ministry. Then we will have a debrief with many friends from America visiting. For our third month in Europe we will all be asking the Lord where he wants us to minister. Some of our friends from the F-Squad have been all over Eastern Europe for the last month setting up some contacts to give us a plethora of options for our third month in Europe. We will be praying over and discussing what country and what sort of ministry the Lord is calling us to for June.
I still feel like I’m emotionally reeling from the last month. A lot of things feel like they are changing. I feel like there is a lot of transition going on and I’m feeling the anxiety that comes with that. I definitely got to hear from the Lord in some really comforting ways over the last month and I’m expecting big things in the future, beginning with this month.
For now I hope you will keep myself, my team, and my squad in your prayers. Praise God for all he is doing in and through us.
I love you all very much.
