Tuesday, January 23, 2007

Growing Babies






For a small church family, we are abundantly blessed with children and teens. We focus a lot of energy on our minstries to children and teens. While some churches like to keep the kids "quiet and out of the way" we decided that Jesus was serious when he sat a child on his lap and encouraged his disciples to become like the child.
As many of you know, our friends Sergei and Luda Korotya adopted a baby last year. His name is Sasha and he is adorable. He is wlking pretty well now and he strolls all over the worship room every Sunday morning. It is fun to watch all the people hold their arms out to Sasha as he gets anywhere near them (yes, I do it, too) and to see the expressions on his face as he decides who to bless with his presence. He, along with Lexi and Katya, are a source of joy for our church family. As long as there are the sounds of little feet and small voices there is continuing life in the church family.

Saturday, January 20, 2007

Visit from Brett and Alicia White






This weekend Brett and Alicia White are visiting with us. They live in Kiev and are doing two years of intensive language study to prepare them for work in Ukraine. We have corresponded with one another for about a year but have never met one another, although we have a lot of common friends.

They arrived on Friday morning on the 7:30 AM train and will leave Sunday evening at 7 PM. During their visit we have spent a lot of time talking and have also visited the Family Care Center, the Children's Hospital and the Teen Bible Class. It is great to make new friends.

Here are some pictures from our visit to the Baby Hospital. Enjoy...

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