It’s incredibly hard to believe it but Team Pleres is in MONTH 11 of The World Race.
Our Race will conclude in the city of L’viv, Ukraine.
L’viv is an 755 year old city soaked in history and full of a young generation of college students eager to hear the gospel and encounter Jesus in a real relationship that is not bound by old traditions. 
We arrived in L’viv to meet our ministry contact Mike Pratt and his right hand man David. David is a full time missionary here and has been incredibly helpful in showing us around the city, helping us translate with locals, and setting us up with ministry in a variety of settings.
So far this week, we’ve had the awesome opportunity to paint one more MURAL yay!! Chelsea has been very happy to use her amazing talents and we’ve all jumped in to help transform the children’s ministry room at the church into an underwater playground. Pictures will be posted once it’s complete 🙂
We also have had the cool opportunity to help plan and host a weekly English discussion night. The vision is to encourage locals who want to improve their English to come to the church and watch a variety of video clips (most from YouTube), discuss them, practice speaking English through a question and answer session, and then have fun playing games.
Last night was the first week that our team got to participate and it was incredible! We had about 15 people show up and all but 1 were non believers. All came eager to talk English and make new friends, it was amazing the conversations which came from the short time we spent together. Please pray as we continue to nurture the friendships which were formed. Our heart’s desire is that every single person that walks into the church will experience the love and joy of knowing Christ. We will have the privilege of helping with English nights every Thursday until the end of the month.
Tomorrow we will meet up at the park to hang out and talk more with several of our new friends from English night. Pray that our lips will be seasoned with holy Salt and that our conversations will be fruitful.
Every Friday the church hosts a prayer night, we participated tonight and it was awesome to have a specific time set apart to pray for however the Holy Spirit led. Two of our friends from English night (neither one was a believer) showed up unannounced and stayed for half our our prayer time. They sat and listened as we worshiped for 30min about how much God loves us. We’re praying that seeds were planted and that these men will be back soon wanting to know more about the Lord 🙂
Every evening from 3-5pm this week we are helping out with games at a kid’s VBS camp in another part of L’viv. Today was our first day helping out and about 60 neighborhood kids showed up. It was such an awesome time getting to play and love on all those children. Pray that the joy of the Lord will be our strength as we pour all of ourselves out loving on these kids this week. (We are all very tired after 11 months of travel- praying for God to refill our cups that we can give all that we have to this month’s ministry)
Pictures and more updates to come soon. Thanks again for reading the blogs and your continued prayers!
