Family!!

Our kids are doing great. They still frequently ask about America
and when we are going back, especially Bianc as she misses Mikaela
and her friend Kailynn. And of course they both miss Mac N Cheese.

Bianca just turned four on June 24th. She had a great time celebrating
with a princess party. Her favorite present was her bike. She asks every
morning when she wakes up to go out and ride around.


Denae is well, she is quite the little hurricane. She is talking more and
more and even sang happy birthday to her big sister. She is really happy
wherever she is, which is so good on us.



Anya and I celebrated 5 years of marriage on June 28th, hard to believe
its already five years, anya says it feels like we have been married forever.
I'm gonna brag on her now and say the best decision of my life was to take
her as my wife five years ago. I would never be where I am today without her,
she is just a gem of a wife.

Well I think thats it, thanks again for all your support and love.
We could not be here doing the things we are doing without all of you behind us.

Ministry

Things are going better with ministry.
Anya is now working with bankers, teaching english.
She uses an hour of her time with them to study the LaRed principles.
The students really enjoy them because they are written in a
language they can understand, plus they are in english. Anya said that
they had a great discussion on pressure and that many of them didn't agree
that pressure is good, it only causes stress and health problems. She was
happy to explain and it's great that they are thinking. God is awesome, the
banks are one of the most corrupt places in Ukraine and now God is using
Anya to transform and they don't even know it.

Translation has started on fundamentals and then wolla, our computer
decides it doesnt want to type in Ukrainian anymore. We have a guy coming
tonight to reboot the thing, please pray it gets figured out, we need
to keep on schedule. Guess thats what happens when you work on a PC:)

Kyle has contacted the Nazarene church and has been meeting with other
church leaders. Some doors are opening, some aren't. It seems Kiev is
overloaded but small churches in other small towns are bored and waiting
for something, which can be a great opportunity for LaRed. Pray for him
as we will be without him for two weeks. He is leaving Wed. for Uzhgorod
to work with gypsy orphans. This is new for him but he is hoping it will
open greater doors for fundamentals and LaRed, plus he loves kids.

Well that is it for now, we love you all and keep you in our prayers!!!

Protest!!!!

Ukraine, Ukraine!!!! Just wanted to fill everyone in on what's going on.
Our protests in front of our building have been quiet.
The mayor came and visited us and told us that he is totally against the
project and then he signed a document prohibiting the company to
build on the piece of land. Now we are waiting for him to sign off on
prohibiting the rental of the land. What happens is building companies
rent land in Kiev, they are not allowed to buy it, so we want this to
be blocked so the company can't keep coming up with ways to use the land.
The only way he could rent this land is through corruption. He definately
paid the head of our building, because when the whole thing started she
was nowhere to be found and had all the documents. The people in our
building are now firing her and looking for a new head. This is how things
work here, continue to fight with us over this matter!!!
We will win with God's help.

Finally!!!!

Our first blog.
We are finally back into our apartment and our settled in.
The kids are having a great time getting into things and discovering their old toys. Bianca asked the other day "is this America"?
Anyway ministry is moving good. We have been reconnecting with old contacts and making new ones.
Today we went to celebrate with Anya's parents, as they were baptized for the first time. It was great to see that.
During Communism this wasn't allowed so Anya's mom had to secretly baptize the her and her sister because Anya's dad was in the party. They were baptized in an Orthodox church. But what a joy to see her parents dunked with the Holy Spirit.
I forgot how long Ukrainain churches last, three hours today, yikes!!!!, very tough on the kids.
Anyway we made it and are going strong. Anya is busy translating and is now going to help out on the YWAM base with some of the administration of documents and what not. Kyle is planning a trip to Uzhgorod, to help out with an orphan camp in July, it will be a great opportunity to make contacts and get to know the kids. It's a gypsy kid camp so should be pretty interesting. I think that is it for now, continue to pray for Ukraine as it needs stability!!!