College Group

On Tuesday night was the inaugural meeting of our “college” bible study. Though not everyone in the group studies at a college or university, everyone is of the appropriate age, which ranges from 19 to 23 years old. There were six of us, four men and two women, one of which was myself. Where have all of the young women gone? For this group we will be reading Keith Drury’s Holiness for Ordinary People, and learning about what the Bible says about the subject as well as how we can be more holy in our own lives. I am very excited to be a part of this group! Since I have arrived in Ukraine I have been praying that God would provide for me a place where I can fit right in and be myself amongst my peers and I think that this group may be the answer to those prayers! In an e-mail I had received from the previous leader of the group, he had expressed how he had been praying for someone to come along that the group could relate better with (i.e. someone younger). Praise God that He is bringing everything together! Please pray with me for the continued success of this group!

Personal Theology

Recent conversations I have had with our friend Sasha have caused me to start thinking about matters of theology and what I believe. One evening I decided that writing down my thoughts would be beneficial. This post is the result of those thoughts.

I believe that God exists in three parts, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, and that each of these parts have always been in existence. I believe that Jesus Christ, who was fully man and fully God was sent by God the Father as a mere baby to live a perfect, sinless life which ended in a tragic, yet wonderful death which paid the price for the sins, the shortcomings of all mankind. “For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” (Romans 6:23) Christ died for all of mankind so that He would be reunited with us and be able to live with Him eternally. “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.” (John 3:16) This is not to say that all will be made to believe, for scripture says that Christ shall stand at the door and knock and whoever invites Him in He shall be with them and them with Him (Romans 3:20). God has given each of us free will to choose to follow Him or to reject Him. In choosing to follow Him one must reject their past life of disobedience and recognize that Christ died for them and each one of their wrongdoings, past, present and future. In doing this one will be led down a path that leads toward temptations, trails, blessings and rewards, all while following, or attempting to follow in Christ’s footsteps. Once on this path, the ultimate goal is Christ-likeness.

Too Wordy...Need More Pictures!

Our Thanksgiving table, prior to the dinner. Needless to say all of these places were filled.


American missionary Bill with Ukrainian pastor Sergey. Its good that there are some serious people here!


Dam It! Hehehe. A dam on the Dnieper River in Zaporozhya. The picture was taken from an island on the river where the Cossaks would train their men.