Carol has a video on her Facebook. I was trying to put it on the blog but so far, can't figure out how.
The video is very short and it is from the church service this morning. Colin is playing the guitar and a few of the girls are singing. They are in Igor's church, where we usually spend at least one Sunday in worship while in Ukraine.
After church, they have lunch and pack everything they need for the week at the village and head to Nikolaevka on a big bus. The drive is about 2 1/2 hours away from Odessa and is usually a lot of fun. They sleep and sing and play with balloon animals most of the way there. The kids from the village and the orphanage will be super excited to see that bus drive into their village again. The first year our team went to the village was the first time they ever had Americans come to visit them and share the love of Jesus with them. It was huge.
The team will not have internet service while they are in this village so we probably will not hear from them. There is an internet "cafe" they can go to if there is an emergency message they need to get to us but other wise, just know that everyone is doing great. They really do not have free time when they are in the village. They are with the kids from the time they get up until the time they crash for the night. They sit outside in the evenings and watch movies on the wall of the buildings. The kids love this time with the teenagers.
This is a link to a YouTube video from the first Nikolaevka trip in 2009.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqHb-PBZTnk
This is a good video to watch if you want to see what it's like in the village. You'll see the team standing in beautiful flowers, passing out balloons to the kids as we walked door to door to tell them about our Bible School, one of our teens dressed up as a tiger to make it more fun, and see how the kids love to sing along with us during the singing time. You can be 100% sure that your kids are going to have a blast this week. And, like Ron Bracy said, they will give their hearts away. God will pour His love through them in a way they have never experienced before.
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UPDATE via text from Carol: "We arrived in Nikolaevka safely and ate a delicious meal in the kindergarten. We even had about an hour and a half to play with the orphans before darkness settled in. Soccer, red rover, red rover, ninja and other ways of connecting with the kids and getting to know them. Now we are unpacking and about to have lights out at 11:00. Specific requests: that the water in the orphanage would work all the time and in abundance, unity and positive attitudes about conditions that are different than home, our first lessons tomorrow, and that a lot of village kids would come."
Love hearing the updates here and the one we received last night via email. Grateful for answered prayers and love knowing how to pray more specifically.
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