Sunday in Odessa

This video is from church this morning. The picture on the stairs was taken Tuesday morning in front of the orphanage building. Carol's taking the picture so of course she's not in it.
The last picture is our wonderful translators. Maxim, Artem, Igor, Maxim, Alyona, Dasha, Oksana, Dasha, Marina, Ksusha, Ira, and lucy
(Note from Pam...Maxim (on far left) is the 16 year old son of Alyona, who is in the black shirt on the right. Alyona has been my translator for many years and we call each other sister.  Every year, Alyona sacrifices and leaves her family all week to go to the village and then leaves from morning until late at night to minister with to the orphans. So, I think it's is so cool that now her son is translating with the team for the first time as well.)

Carol wrote this this morning, before she posted that last post. They had a eally good day today. Here are some  comments from our kids at devotion last night: making friendships; feeling like I'm doing what God made me to do; kids are so happy that we are here; they are so satisfied with little things. Like, one girl was given a piece of gum and she gave half back to our teen. It was great to see how village kids and orphans are playing together.

Now that I'm using a different computer, I can add the video that Carol first sent us the first weekend. This is at Igor's church last Sunday,with some of the kids from our team singing and playing the guitar.