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

There is hardly ever a dull moment here. It seems there is always something to do. That must be why I haven't been reading any books lately!! Maybe winter will give us some time for that. Shannon is teaching English class for the students while Teresa is in Canada. She is finding it challenging, but fun. Her big fear is that one day she will forget and be late for class! The students get candy if they are on time. I wonder what Shannon will get if she is late?  Teaching English  The letter 'T' Some of the students came for tea and cookies last week. They must have really enjoyed themselves last time, because there were more of them this time! Word of mouth and personal invitations are powerful and effective! We had tea, coffee and hot chocolate (some had all three!) with our double chocolate cookies and we played a few games. We ran out of real cups and had to use paper ones! We bought more cups for the future.  Tea time  Tea time We have inst...

Since our last post, we had to say 'Good-bye' to our daughter Ashley. She flew out of Zaparosia on November 6 and then spent a few days in Romania before flying back home to Canada. We are so thankful for the time we had together with Ashley! Vlad and Valero did some more stuccoing on our house before they painted it. The house looks so much better now with the house painted white and the bricks around the base of the house painted black. It took them a little over a week to complete their work.  Vlad stuccoing  Stuccoing  Valero stuccoing  Starting to paint  House painted  House painted  House painted  House painted On Saturday, November 9, we put the last of our tough-chewing chickens into cold storage. We found out that they are only for soup or stew where the meat has lots of time to tenderize. We want to share some with the students and make some room in our freezer. We have had two more English follow-up on Su...

Life is continuing to move along here in Ukraine. We have a few more things to do as we have begun our English class follow-up classes on Sunday afternoons. We are also getting together with all the students once every two weeks for a group supper and devotional. We continue to work at learning Russian and slowly but surely there is some headway being made. We really appreciate our tutor Ulzana, who comes twice a week for two hour classes. She is patient with us and can explain the many questions that we often have. Since our last blog, we had another get together with the Hope For Each students. We gather at 5 pm and the first thing we do is share a devotional and answer questions. We are thankful for their participation and really appreciate Victor and his translation abilities. Without him being here, it would be just a meal together, but we want it to be so much more. We want to introduce them to Jesus so they can know that He is faithful to walk w...