So this is it. We all have made the journey home from Atlanta to Odessa up the river to Kiev and now back to Atlanta. Jet lag aside, life now returns to some form of normalcy. In fact, those of us in the choir, we return to our normal rehearsal schedule tonight! This, then, will [...]
Throughout the past two weeks, to the best of my ability, I have tried to reflect the opinions, viewpoints, and observations of the entire mission team. But with fifty folks in tow, each of whom looks at the world through different lenses, that is not an easy task. For one of the last blogs on [...]
In our home church, we worship in a beautiful sanctuary. The natural sunlight streaming through the windows, the handsome wooden pews, the terrific sightlines from all sections… what a blessing from God! But worship can happen anywhere and our Biblical mandate to assemble ourselves together for corporate worship, edification, and instruction need not take place [...]
All — we made it back to Atlanta! Everyone is safe and (I think) everyone is sound. Stay tuned tonight and tomorrow for at least three more blog posts coming your way. -Chris
Dear Friends and Family, I posted another narrative from the trip (“Safe in the Ark”) this morning. We are indeed winging our way back to Atlanta. That, however, does not mean that the posts will stop. I will add probably three, maybe four, most entries to this blog, including one about yesterday’s church service in [...]
Our home church, Mount Paran Church of God, supports a whole host of missionaries throughout the world – from the remotest reaches of Siberia to the islands of the Philippines; from the streets of Santa Cruz, Bolivia, to the crowded slums of Bangalore, India. And we do so here in Ukraine, too. Meet Jane Hyatt, [...]
The Holy Spirit moves in ways and through means that, to us, may seem unusual. If everyone reading this posted their own personal salvation experience, I suspect we would find a wide array of stories – from the person who gave her life to Him as a young girl in her home church all the [...]
As we pulled up to the church last night, I could close my eyes and see and hear the church camp meetings of my youth: Families parked hundreds of yards away in open fields and joined an army of others steadily walking toward a large framed tabernacle, which at one time had been open air [...]
Yesterday provided more peaks and valleys than the craziest roller coaster at any amusement park… a day of spiritual and emotional vertigo… so much so that I think it better to separate the day’s blog into two separate posts. (The second may be posted later in the day.) Our first stop came at an orphanage [...]
Whenever we park at the front gates of an orphanage and barrel out of the doors ready to do God’s work, the average Ukrainian observing this scene must be confused. We either look like the rejects from the latest round of circus auditions or a bunch of escapees from the local asylum. Picture, if you [...]
