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

Not much exciting has happened in the last 10 days. The biggest heart-pumping occurrence was that one of our roosters has discovered his wings and got out of the pen! We were able to chase him around and back in through the gate. We moved the feeder away from the chicken house because that was how he made it up on the roof. In the evening when they went in to roost, we clipped their wings so it won't happen again! Last week Garry made chocolate cake for Leila's (one of the students) birthday. We walked down to the classroom to sing "happy birthday" and have a piece of cake with the students.  Leila's birthday We had a late Thanksgiving supper with our English Small Group - other Canadian and American missionaries from Zaporizhia - at our house. It was a planned potluck meal and then we played a game.  Thanksgiving with friends English Club continues Sunday afternoons. I will try to remember to take a picture this week! We had a new lady join us ...

The real exciting news for us is that this morning we had an audio message from our son in Cape Town, South Africa. Last night, they were blessed by the birth of a baby girl, Julie Grace Crawford . We haven't seen any pictures yet, but we are so happy for them. This is their second daughter and a sister for Eve. The birth went well and Mom and baby are doing well! Life continues to move along and it has been exciting as we have begun some new ministry opportunities this Fall. We have completed our second SEI English class that takes place on Sunday afternoons. We had some new people attending this past Sunday and had some good discussion and observations as we work our way through the Gospel of Mark. We look forward to our Sunday afternoons with this opportunity that God has given to us. Last night we did something brand new with the Hope For Each students. We are going to be getting together every two weeks on a Monday evening for a devotional time and to share an amazing meal...

Posting a new blog is sometimes a challenge when it seems like you haven't done much to tell about. When studying Russian, how do you tell about it other than you are studying Russian? Either way, we have been doing a few things other than learning Russian. We were going to put up a new blog on the weekend, but our Wifi was down from Friday until Sunday evening. From what we understand the previous Wifi carrier went bankrupt and a new provider is in place, but there were some system problems. So far we are back up and everything is fine. Since we have been back from Canada (almost 4 weeks), we have had more issues with our Wifi than before. Maybe with the one company going bankrupt that will explain some of our problems. Hopefully things will be much better from this point on. This past Sunday, we had our first SEI (Summer English Institute) follow-up class. We hosted it at 2 pm at Morningstar Church, where we attend in Dnipro. Our numbers were down from what we ...