Category Archives: Ukraine

I’ve been back from the mission trip to Ukraine and thought through some highlights and observations from the trip. I’ll work through them in turn and as briefly as possible. 1. Vibrant Spirituality- at least in the churches I visited, I found the spirituality of the Ukrainian people to be vibrant and passionate. They singContinue reading “Final Ukraine Post”

We are spending the last couple of days in Kyiv before returning home. The team is upbeat, but sad to leave. I think that we are all experiencing the shadow of short term missions. We discovered that we were a Ukraine missions team 8 months ago. We met periodically to get to know each other,Continue reading “Ukraine Update 3”

We were in a remote place and I could not get to a place to check Facebook and blog. Much to say about our trip and about Ukraine, but I’ll share a bit now. The word that I have decided to describe Ukraine is “resilient”. There are a lot of hardships in Ukraine, but theContinue reading “Ukraine Update 2”

We are here in Ukraine. It is 4:36am here. I have been up since 2:30am. I’m sharing a room with Patrick and we’ve been sharing thoughts about God for sometime now… don’t think that I can get back to sleep. So, I’m going to blog a bit. We haven’t had much interaction with Ukraine, yet.Continue reading “Ukraine Thoughts 1”