Hello world, I apologize for the lack of update in the last
month or so. I am in Chisinau (kiss-u-now), Moldova, on the eve of
heading to Ukraine, our last ministry country. I won’t make excuses-I’ve been
lazy in my blogs. With less than a month left on the race, it’s real easy to
get lazy.
Update on the Czech days: we led/participated in worship at
the International House of Prayer Prague. I’m
not really into music, in the
sense that I listen to music a lot, or that I feel release through music in
worship. So while I do enjoy corporate worship, I’m not enthused about it for a
prolonged period of time, especially ones that go on into the late hours of the
night/morning. My team knows this and we prayed for me to engage myself in
corporate worship and prayer. Long story short, I found myself with the guitar
and the keyboard and even the jimbe throughout the night, playing the best I
could. And I felt a part of worship.
Prague is absolutely gorgeous, and it’s amazing some of the
ppl you meet when you hang out in the basement bar of your hostel at 5am in the
morning after watching Holland vs Spain in the World Cup Finals. On a very
related note, I love Irish and Aussies!
After a 30+ hr train ride back East through Hungary and
Romania, we arrived in Ungheni, Moldova, the poorest country in Europe by GDP
standards. It also has the biggest winery in the world.
Our time here was split into two. The first ministry was
with Pastor Lucien and his family, helping clear land for a future church
building, and helping set up and visit a children’s summer camp. The second one
was manual labour digging trenches for walls, sewage, and gas lines for a
church Pastor Stephan was building. We were in the sun from morning until late
afternoon digging, mixing concrete, and more digging. I did not get tanned this
much in Africa!! 😀
Right now, I am sitting in a pretty decent mall in Moldova,
called “Mall-dova.” In a few hours, we will be on an overnight bus (insert weak
enthusiasm here) to Kiev, Ukraine for our final ministry. All I know is that
there’s a kid’s camp involved. There was another ministry that teaches/runs a
SOFTBALL ministry but another team’s going. :S
This last month is going to be bitter sweet. God bless!
