This is my third day in the Ukraine. I�fm working with Andrew Kelly and his organization called Jeremiah�fs Hope! He runs summer camps for Ukrainian orphans.This week and next week the camp is for missionary kids in the Ukraine area. Friday the kids initiated us with a water fight and we put on skits for them, had time of worship, and a camp fire. Next week I will be staying in cabins with children! Then we will have a week of repairing camp and helping with a Ukrainian church renting it out. Then the next week will be our first week with Ukrainian orphans.
This camp is awesome! It is in a village of about 200 people. The land use to be a river bed so it feels like we are on a beach minus an ocean. I haven�ft been wearing shoes and have been enjoying the sand between my toes. While helping to prepare food I like to watch the neighbors loading hay in trunk and the cows walking down the “street” to go to the pasture. Today I have been doing laundry, scrubbing toilets, cleaning showers, helping prepare food, and other cleaning things to do to prepare for the week!
I�fm so grateful to serve in this ministry. To be able to help grow and encourage young missionary kids in their faith, to support the Kelly�fs, and to reach out to children who live a very hard life.
I was spending time with the Lord today and reading Romans chapter 12. I sometimes like to pray scripture. There is just something so deeply powerful about the word of God. When going into ministry I feel like the biggest struggle for me to maintain zeal and to do everything out of love and for God. I can become so focused on doing I forget to just be God�fs child and its all for Him. So this was my prayer today from Romans 12:9-15:
Lord, Let my love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good. Help me love one another with brotherly affection. May my team outdo one another in showing honor. I will not be slothful in zeal, may I be fervent in spirit, I will serve you Lord. Help me to rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer. May I contribute to the needs of the saints and seek to show hospitality. Bless those who persecute me; I will bless and not curse them. Show me how to rejoice with those who rejoice, and weep with those who weep.
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