The above is the translation of a bumper sticker on the back of Sergei’s car, and were I more spritually deft, I could write a lean but meaty sermon series exploring it’s many layers, How we, as Christians, are called to be different in battle, even announcing the victor while the battle still rages and [...]
A third truckload of block arrived this morning and registered a first round TKO. No, there will be no boasting in our efforts, niether will there be complaining for the blessings have far exceded the burdens….isn’t that just like God? We are very close to our goal…Just a few hours on Friday will get us [...]
The florida guys took control on “make or break” day by laying two long walls of block, even with Mudder finding it difficult to share his mud. The Tennessee effort was hampered when Troy dumped an entire load of mixed cement on the ground. Both teams found out later, however, that we failed to meet [...]
Good news! Jim finally has a nickname…”The Smart One”…and it wasn’t even given to him by Sparky, Doc or Mudder. Still no nicknames for the Nashville guys…at least nothing we can blog. Joe should be about fed up with Troy by now…but somehow he’s not. Today we built up the foundation to level and began [...]
This morning we ripped down the forms and ‘de-nailed’ the wood….before finally giving way to the block work. Art, Jim, Joe, the Kevins and Michael did a fantastic job discovering their masonry talents while chef’s Troy and Lee cooked up the sweetest batch of cement this side of the Prime Meridian. A brief, misguided critique [...]
Someone, maybe even me, once said that airports are the birth canals of adventure. There’ a lot of laborious waiting, but, normally the end result is beyond rewarding. We managed to rendezvous with the Florida boys, the Kevins, Jim and Joe with a minimum of pangs. A lost reservation here, a different connecting flight there [...]
Our May 11-20th team, led by Troy Madge, arrived safely in Ukraine on Saturday. They took an overnight train to Sevastopil and arrived there on Sunday. They have begun work on the Mission’s House today - Please pray for their safety, health and for the Lord to give them an incredible missions experience! We look forward to reading their blogs! [...]
