Ukraine 2006

Hey Everyone! This is Lilly giving you a quick update. The picnic went great yesterday (Friday)! We went to a little island in the middle of a lake where a lot of the locals spend time. We had a good turn out and some of them were new friends that students brought with them. This was great because Pastor Vitaly wanted the picnic to be an outreach event. This was our second day interacting with the youth of New Hope church and it could not have gone better! Pat observed as they played volleyball - people are basically the same. Once the barriers have been broken down they tend to enjoy each other and let loose - even if there is a language barrier.
It is a blessing from God that a lot of Pastor Vitaly's students can speak pretty good English. The picnic was a lot of fun, we brought lunch as well as soccer balls, footballs, frisbees, and volleyballs with us. At the picnic we invited all the students to come to an Oasis type of outreach tonight (Saturday). Most of them sounded excited so we are hoping for a good turn out tonight.



Today we were invited to join New Hope at the lake for a baptism. Around 20 members of New Hope Church were baptized today! It was really exciting to watch and participate in. We even got to watch some of the students we just met get baptized. It was a great outreach event also because a lot of people were around swimming and watching. Pray that this event might have sparked questions in their minds about what the hole baptisim even was about.

Pray also for the Oasis type youth event we are doing tonight. It is the first one for this church. One of our goals for the trip is to try and help establish a weekly event here at New Hope similar to the Oasis college meeting that we have at BRCC. Pray for the Boca team and the students of New Hope as we work together tonight.



Thank you for all your prayers!
Lilly

posted by BRCC Missions @ 4:17 AM