T.E.A.M. Ukraine is a ministry of the Evangelical Free Church of Canada Mission

Last Wednesday, we left early in the morning with Garry & Teresa to head to the Farm Show in Kiev. We got on the 7 am train in Dnipro and spent the next 6 hours on the train. On the way we took a picture of some trees where Mistletoe is growing in the trees and will ultimately kill them. The problem is worse as you go towards Kiev.  Mistletoe in the trees It was too late to go the Farm Show on Wednesday, so we went downtown to where the Euro-Maidan  demonstrations took place in 2014. This was the rally that began in late 2013 and into 2014 because the government decided not to sign documents that would have brought them into associate membership with the European Union. Before the pro-Russian government was brought down, over 100 people were shot and killed. The President at the time fled the country to Russia and new elections took place. There are Presidential elections coming up in March 2019 and it is worthy of spending time ...

When we first arrived in Ukraine, we arrived just as winter was beginning. It never got real cold and nothing like the Prairies have experienced lately, but there was hardly any sunshine and it was dreary almost every day. That cycle seems to have broken and we have had much more sunshine lately and our snow is pretty much all gone except on some streets in Dnipro and in shelter belts. On Sunday, it was +8 C in the village and +6 C today, with lots of sun. On our farm here, the guys have been out with the plow on some of the fields that never got done last fall. The fertilizer has been applied to the winter wheat and the sun is shining! :) This past Sunday I (Scott) preached at the church we attend in Dnipro. Misha was my interpreter. The next time I preach will be April 14. On the way home, we took some pictures of winter wheat that is looking very good. There is a lot of winter canola also and most of it is looking good from the road. It is nice to see the rolling f...

A few new things have been happening lately. Garry was sad to have missed out on the first one - we got stopped at the Police Check Point on the way to Dnipro Sunday morning. This is a routine happening on the Ukrainian highways. Garry has been stopped often, but it took 2.5 months for Scott to be pulled over. The officer waved his little reflector stick at us and we pulled over to the side of the road. When he realized that we had no clue what he was saying, he smiled and waved us on! Not too traumatic, but momentous none the less. The second things was that Vova stopped in one afternoon with a lady from the village who is a young school teacher looking to improve her English. She is willing to help us with our Russian, so it is a win-win situation. We had our first lesson with her on Thursday. We'll do a few weeks to see how it goes. We are her first 'official' students. On Tuesday, we went to the classroom to take pictures of each student in preparation of a Va...