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
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