More Travels

I hope and pray you read the last blog again I still need your prayers. I am home long enough to wash clothes and try to catch up on email. If I have forgotten someone, please forgive me. I do not have internet access when I travel. It will cost an addition 500 hrv or about $60 initially and then about $15 per month. I am already paying $15 per month for unlimited in Cherkassy.

I arrived home last Sunday and Julia’s husband was such a dear to pick us up and he drove me home. I was totally exhausted and crashed on Sunday. We had ‘harvest festival’ in church, so it was great to visit and see everyone. By some strange coincidence, if you believe in such things I was asked to dance in front of the church. This was a first and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Worship dance is what originally brought me to Ukraine but not a priority for me at this time.

Pastor Vadim who opened a new college in Nikolaev is one of our first students who attended the college in Nikolaev. He has his bachelor degree and will be attending some of the master classes! God is so good and keeps bringing back people for healing and restoration.

I am so excited in renewing broken relationships due to political or personnel issues. There are so many questions about the past that are uncomfortable to answer. Yet as I obey God, He keeps growing and changing the college.

Graduation at Nikolaev New Generation Church last week was wonderful. I had an opportunity to encourage the congregation in going deeper in the Word and a relationship with God. The best part of graduation is encouraging the students to continue their education. Afterward, Pastor and his wife took us out for lunch and we had a wonderful time, but it was too short. I will be going back and staying with them to visit, not minister. This month I am in Nikolaev four weekends out of the five!

Julia and I taught three days at the new college in Nikolaev and then we were literally whisked off to Odessa to teach in their college two nights. Then we took an early bus to Kherson Saturday morning to teach a nine hour day in the Master program. Afterward, I was so tired because I only had 2 hours sleep that night that I needed quiet. I begged off of being entertained for the evening and asked to go to a quiet restaurant with wifi! I wanted to play a bit. However, I ended up working.

We were schedule to take a platzcar wagon (train) home. Now have you ever been in one of these cars? Let me explain it. You have about 60 people crammed into one wagon and the top bunks are very small, you cannot even sit up in them! Ok – so I prayed, talked to Julia and we decided to see if we could exchange our tickets for a koopae, (sorry I don’t know how to translate the Russian into English!) This is a small room with 4 beds, of course they are bunks. We were able to get upper beds. The young man who had one of the lower bunks gave it up for me! I was truly blessed.

A new adventure is beginning, while I wait for two hours in McDonalds for my friends to pick me up. They live on the edge of Kyiv, which at this time is about 5 million folks! I teach a new Master class tomorrow and Friday and then I travel to Dnepropetrovsk for our first Doctorate program and graduation on Sunday.

Thank you for your continued prayer support.
May God shine His face upon you today
Kathy

Keeping the Pace!

Greetings!

I hope and pray you read the last blog; I need your prayers.

We are in Nikolaev and had a great service on Sunday in New Generation Church. Last night we opened a new school in the Fire of Revival, there are 15 students. It is exciting to participate in a new work, both the college and the church. We are staying in the pastors home and we are being treated like royalty. This is something I am very uncomfortable with. The food is out of this world even for Ukraine. It is beyond the normal great food!

Today, Pastor and I sat for a time and asked questions on a one to one basis. We both felt very safe to ask the type of questions one does not normally ask. This really was the first ‘safe’ conversation I have had with a pastor that I could truly ask and not be intimidated, and Pastor felt the same way. It is good to begin a new relationship with trust.

I did not realize until this moment how past hurts have affected my trust level. I am thankful God is healing these deep hurts. I was confronted with many of the past issues of the college this weekend and many tears fell; remembering the difficult times yet it feels good that I can move forward in God’s strength.

Tonight and tomorrow we teach here in Nikolaev. By the way, there four colleges here, so if you get confused . . . I am baffled at times also! Thursday night we are preaching in Odessa and teaching on Friday. Saturday we teach 9 hours in Kherson for the Master class. Hopefully our Saturday night we will return to Odessa again. By Monday morning we need to be in Cherkassy.

Tuesday, next week we have a Master class in Cherkassy. I have to be in Kyiv for graduation and to begin a new Master class on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Friday evening I leave for Dnepropetrovsk for graduation and a doctorate class. Please pray God provides human strength and fortitude for me. I also need God’s wisdom and for the Holy Spirit to prepare the way.

Thank you for your continued prayer support.
May God shine His face upon you today
Kathy

Prayer Request

I am attaching my schedule for October. As you can see it is full. Please pray that I receive God’s wisdom, strength, and stamina.

Nikolaev: graduation and open new college
10/2 through 10/6
Odessa: teach in the new college
10/7 through 10/8
Kherson: 9 hours of master class
10/9
Odessa: mid-week service and Sunday service
10/10 through 10/11 or 10/12
Cherkassy: Master class
10/12
Kyiv: Master class (2 days)and graduation
10/13 through 10/15
Dnepropetrovsk: Master class and graduation
10/15 through 10/18
Cherkassy: Doctorate class
10/20
Kyiv admin meeting
10/22
Kyiv: overnight and travel to Nikolaev
10/22
Nikolaev: Graduation
10/23 through 10/25
Cherkassy: Master class
10/26
Cherkassy: Doctorate class
10/27
Nikolaev: Master class
10/29 through 10/31
Cherkassy: preach in home church
11/7

We started a new college last month in Odessa, in Southern Ukraine and on Monday we will be opening another college in Nikolaev. I have been asked to teach the first subject which consists of 12 hours of teaching. I will also be teaching a Master class, which is 9 hours and then I have been asked to preach two Sundays, plus the mid-week service.


Thank you for your continued prayer support.
May God shine His face upon you today.
Kathy