These are two words that get the blood flowing. Why? Because it is an opportunity for me to get out from behind my desk at KTS and out where the action is. It is always a good dose of reality.
Saturday I drove my little Chevy to Chegerine approximately 3 hours south of Kiev. I was accompanied by Michael K. our campus pastor who is working with me in the area of training mentors for our students. It was a beautiful fall day and the conversation added to a delightful trip back and forth to Chegerine. The purpose of our visit was to meet with my students (I have 5 from this area) and the regional pastor to talk about where they all are in the process of planting churches and to talk with them about an evangelistic outreach in their area this summer with a volunteer team from the US.
It was a good time to catch up on where they were and to hear from them about their vision for planting churches. It was also a wonderful opportunity to meet the regional pastor, a young man in his early 30s who is a graduate of KTS. I was thrilled at his vision and maturity. I think it was the beginning of a very positive relationship. It’s all about relationships!! We had a typical Ukrainian lunch and then headed back to Kiev, stopping by and seeing one of the student’s churches in the village.
We took a little side tour and stopped in Cherkassy and looked at the new home that my former assistant, and adopted Ukrainian son and his wife are building. His father met us and took us by so I could get some pictures of the new construction. We arrived in Kiev after dark and it was 8:30 PM before I walked into the door of our apt to the smell of candles and a great dinner by my lovely wife. All in all it was a great day.
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