Since I wasn’t able to post anything to wrap up the end of the month of Ukraine, I thought I would share with you some photos depicting the everyday things I encountered in Dubno:
this is team Ohana, my personal ohana for the month. They are some wonderful brothers and sisters in Christ that I was able to hang out with for the month!
We had a beautiful walk through a park everyday to the bus stop . . .
where we rode one of these awesome minibuses . . .
that would take us to this gate, where we waited for the keys . . .
to get into the church, where we were served some of the most amazing Ukrainian food . . .
only after, of course, praying for each one of our meals, standing.
In the afternoon, we taught English classes across from the church in these awesome tents, and
we would eat some delicious dinner, Ukrainian again . . .
then we would ride home back on the bus to our house, where we would be greeted by our host family with more tea and cookies and fruit than we could ever imagine . . .
and we would sing songs and have fellowship until late into the night . . .
We would then thank our hosts for their EXTREME generosity, and go to bed!
Day after day our team was given the opportunity to love some amazing high schoolers from Ukraine. The lessons that they taught me were far more valuable than the lessons that I taught them!
“I have seen the business that God has given to the children of man to be busy with. He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man’s heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end. I perceived that there is nothing better for them than to be joyful and to do good as long as they live; also that everyone should eat and drink and take pleasure in all his toil- this is God’s gift to man.
I perceived that whatever God does endures forever; nothing can be added to it, nor anything be taken from it. God has done it, so that people fear before him. That which is, already has been; that which is to be, already has been; and God seeks what has been driven away.”
– Ecclesiastes 3: 10-15
