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The Kitchen Window
People-watching is one of my favorite things to do. For the first few years during our duration in Ukraine, we lived in a fourth floor apartment near the center of town, right on the main …
Nikopol Ukraine
Lessons I learned from our time as missionaries in Ukraine
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An Act of War
In the small Ukrainian village of Annovka, Lydia hurried home from school as the wind carried clouds of black artillery smoke across what had been a blue sky. She was five years old when the …
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My Father’s House
Send me your homegrown VBS’s! I want to provide a space for you to share your Vacation Bible school ideas, youth ministries, youth projects. Share them with me and I will post them for others to use!
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Checkpoint Julian
When you get off track, return to your roots.
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Time’s Up!
Ten years ago, our son was almost a Ukrainian citizen. Our youngest child, Anthony, was born in Ukraine, but they do not offer dual citizenship, so, we had to apply for an American passport. In the …
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Zip it!
Did you ever have something you didn’t want to do to such an extent that you were willing to jump through hoops and over hurdles to avoid doing that thing and wound up making a …
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Keep Singing
When your not sure if you still have a song to sing.
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Who Ordered the Horrid?
We had just moved into our apartment in Nikopol Ukraine. Stuart, a missionary just north, in Belarus, helped us get settled and thought it would be a good idea to take me to the …
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Just minding my own business
With the change in season, my mind is drawn back to a time in Ukraine. There is a term in Russian, ‘babushka’, which technically means ‘grandmother’, but was often used to refer to any older …