The Church in Komsomolsk, Ukraine with 
Younger Class at Bugkivka village School
My 6th Grade boys at School 11 in Kremenchuk
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Classes at School 11 with the 6th grade was ok with 3 boys. Then we played Frisbee outside with them afterwards and a few other kids came and joined with us, too! Singing tonight had 8 people.
Wednesday, October 17
We had 13 5th graders today at School 11! That was encouraging and fun! Then just 1 8th grade boy showed up for English Club at School 11 and we had 8 for our Univ. English Club in the evening. That was good. I haven’t been writing much about it, but every other Wed. is my deadline to have our in-house youth Newspaper finished called “Living for Jesus.” It’s purpose is to keep everyone updated on what is going on have encouraging articles to help people in their daily lives. I send it by email to Anya and she translates for me and sends it back by Sunday so we can get it out to your young people.
Thursday, October 18
We had another dry run with our village kids – this is getting really frustrating. Some would say quit, but I know God wants us here and Satan does not! We had 9 at our Hebrews study Bible Class at 6pm.
Friday, October 19
We did go for our older class with our 11th grade girls, but 2 were sick and 1 was out of town – so Satan continues to try discourage us. I have decided to take Friday nights off, as it is the only night of the week that I do not have some activity going on.
Saturday, Oct 20
We had 3 in our Adult Bible Club (Univ) and 4 for our Teen one. The Church Discussion went well at the Church building today with maybe 15 present.
Sunday, October 21 – Yulya, Yura, Olya and Oksana went with me to Komsomolsk today for our worship service there and they had a couple of visitors as well. It was a nice fellowship and worship! We came back and made sandwiches for the boys prison, ate together and spent the afternoon together and then we had 17 for our evening worship service.
Monday, October 22
Monday is supposed to be my “day” off, with Friday evening supposed to be my “night” off. We continue to go out and encourage and study with our Orphans home family. Since I have been back (mid-Sept.) it has been mostly encouraging time since the grandmother – Zoya, has been diagnosed with cancer and it is in advanced stages and she is dying with no hope of having the cancer removed because of her age and health. So we have done all that we can to help this family out and encourage them. I usually get home between 9 and 10 pm when we go out there.
Tuesday, October 23
Our 6th grade class at School 11 had 2 today. We decided to try a new day to have classes with the younger kids at the village and today it worked! We 21 5th and 6th graders (that was a bit wild, but it turned out great!) and then we had 7, 7th and 8th graders. It was a very good day at the village and Satan lost today! We had 10 at singing night tonight and Yura talked and it was very good, too.
Wednesday, Oct 24
We had 7 5th graders at School 11 today. Then because we had just the 1 boy at English Club at School 11, we decided to cancel this class/club. Then we had 5 at the Univ. English Club. This English Club is costing us $20 a night that we don’t have budgeted or about $80 a month – but it does give us definitely a new group of people that we never would have had contact with, so that is good! But where is the money coming from? I don’t know!
Thursday, October 25 – Sunday, October 28
I was coming down with a stomach ache and cold on Wed. and by Thursday it was real strong on me – especially the cold. I was down and out for this time, canceled Bible Clubs, didn’t go to worship which really kills me!
Monday, October 29
My cold is better and tried to get some things done. Went to the Orphans home for about an hour to check up on them and encourage them. The grandmother is getting worse. There is no school in any schools this week in Ukraine – Fall Break. The Univ. still have their classes.
Tuesday, October 30
Worked on the “Living For Jesus” Newsletter today. Prepared talk for Devo. We had 15 tonight – the most we have had in quiet awhile and it was encouraging time for all of us. I talked about Fighting the good Fight and not giving up!
Anton and Kelli in Hartakov
Wednesday, October 31
Kelli, Olya, Oksana and I went to Poltava and Hartakov for a couple days of excursion and to see friends in Hartakov and worship with the Church there. We enjoyed the fall colors, the time together. It is normally about 3 to 3 ½ hour trip to Hartakov, but we spent some time in Poltava because Kelli had never seen that city and it was right on the way. One of the things that we did was to visit the Zoo as well. The animals are not well taken care of in this zoo. At 6pm we met with the Church for their mid-week worship service. Afterwards we went to McDonalds to eat and then went walking for about 1 ½ hours before going back to the church building (where we stayed for the night) for snacks and bed.
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