Since you last heard from us Jaqcui locked Rebecca and Rachel out of their room because she was sleeping. The college youth group on Saturday night went great!! Aileen, Scott, Greg, and Jaqui gave their testimonies and Aileen and Scott helped lead in worship. There were about 52 students there, which is AMAZING!! It's soo cool to see how God works!
Sunday: We woke up at 7:30 to get ready and sweaty to go to church. We got to church around 9:00 and went to the first of 3 services.
The first service, which Pastor Louis spoke at, was the traditional Russian service where Drew gave his testimony. This service is usually led by Pastor Andrew. Lilly and Aileen also sang a HILARIOUS childrens song about fruit! :) The second service we attended was the contemporary Russian service where Rachel gave her testimony and Pastor Bill spoke. This is the service that is usually led by Pastor Vitaly. While this service was in progress the rest of us went around to the different youth Bible studies and spoke. This is where Lilly, Rebecca, Gabe, Scott, and Jacqui all gave their testimonies.
The third and final service was the African praise service. The worship that Pastor Alex led was AMAZING!! We all really enjoyed it a lot. Pastor Bill spoke again at this service, and Billy gave his testimony.
The entire day of services from start to finish took around 7 hours. It is soo cool to see how God speaks to us in so many different ways, and even though we couldn't understand the words, we understood the worship and what God had to say to us.
That night we all went out with the youth from New Hope Church and had some great traditional Ukrainian food. Pastor Louis, Pastor Bill, Mrs. Kelly, and Jacqui went out with Pastor Vitaly, his wife Anna, and his daughter Veronica. We all had a great time and got back to the hotel around 9:00.
Monday: We got up around 8:00 and went to the church at 9:00. When we got to the church we had a quick meeting about VBS and what we would do there. We left for the park where we were going to have VBS at around 10:00. When we got there we all spread out and found kids to attend. We did crafts, games, Bible lesson, and English lessons. We all had fun interacting with all of the Ukrainian kids and playing soccer with them.
VBS ended around 1:00 and then we went back to the church and had some Ukrainian soup. This afternoon we will be hanging out with some of the youth from the church and walking around the streets of Kharkov.
Please keep all of us in your prayers and continue posting blogs, we love to hear what you have to say.
Love,
Jacqui, Aileen, and Drew
posted by BRCC Missions @ 4:44 AM
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