Thursday and Friday in ukrainia

Thurs and Fri have been easier on the men than Wed. They have continued with cement projects with a cement mixer rather than the ready mix truck. Greg walked down to the Black Sea before breakfast this morning. He is doing a great job all aspects of the cement projects --The stairs to the dining hall, medical building, kitchen, and guard shack. We are blessed to have someone so skilled and always pleasant. Bob (the builder) wears his tool belt all day and is a great help. Rich is known as Sewer Man. No one wants to sit with him at the dinner table.

The ladies attended an evangelistic concert at the public school in a small village. One young woman gave her testimony to the teen-agers there. We handed out a set of three books to the older children on spiritual growth.The younger children just wanted hugs and their picture taken with us. This is Darlene with her new friends.

The Beginner Sewing Class for the IVA young ladies was comical as one of the girls sat down at our sewing machine and proceeded to sew French seams on the pillow case we had decided was simple enough for beginners. She is amazingly proficient and obviously had sewed piece work before. We watched with our mouths open in surprise. She didn't speak any English. The others in the class handed their pillow cases to her and she whipped them out in no time. In our spare time, we work in the sweat shop on the quilts that Hope Center needs pronto. We have 15 of them done. This morning we worked with Tanya Prolov on sewing pajamas with a pattern. Her little girl, Sonja, had fun riding an old toy around the grounds.

One of the IVA boys is talented with drawing. This morning he wore his latest art- a pen and ink drawing. Here is the shirt and this is Vitalik.

Three of our team members need prayer for health and healing. Please include in your thoughts and prayers our Ladies Tea which will be held on Saturday here at Hope Center. We are unsure of how many will come. Pray that God will give us inspiration to speak from our hearts a message that will change theirs. Mickey will sing as well as several Ukrainian groups. We have a craft planned and food of course!