Well
after several days of adventuresome travel, team Manna is finally settled into
Kiev. For me personally, this was
probably one of the harder travel times for me.
One of the biggest reasons was that I was running a low fever almost the
whole time and that over the course of 48 hours I got about 3 hours of
sleep. But that’s travel for you,
especially when you’re a leader. Probably
the highlight of our travel experience was when 26 people tackled the Kiev
metro with all of their big packs.
But
thank God we’re moved into a new home for the next 3 weeks. We were able to rent a room from a guy that
runs a ministry in Kiev. It’s nicer then
most of our homes have been this year.
Amenities include carpet, a dinner table, a toilet, hot water shower and
a burner to cook on. Maybe this is God’s
way of easing back into American society!
We also
met with our ministry contacts today called CCX, which is like a Ukrainian
version of Intervarsity. I was pretty
pumped after our meeting with them. Of
course our ministry is going to center around ministering to college students,
but we’ll be getting to share our stories with them at English clubs. We’ll also have opportunities at bible
studies and movie nights. It’s going to
be a very relational ministry where we’ll be making a lot of friends.
I
already love this city, and am excited about what God has in store for all of
us. Please pray for our time here, but
also please begin praying with us about our next month. Our next month is ATL Europe so please pray
that God would line up our ministry and location for us! Oh and don’t forget…it’s Ukraine not “The
Ukraine”. Ukrainians don’t like that too
much.
