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Open Sunday School lesson in park |
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Children engage in craft during open sunday school lesson |
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Singing in the park during open Sunday school lesson |
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Calvin College students help harvest potato crop to support church building |
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Ukraine Independence Day Church Picnic |
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Cooling off during church picnic |
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Washing potatoes for church picnic |
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TLT participants show off their action plans |
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Studying Biblical texts for TLT's Pastoral Care module |
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Mukachevo church leaders finish TLT on stewardship |
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Baptism of the Komar children |
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Priests and pastors at ecumenical service |
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George leads the ecumenical service |
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Children recite poems and sing for Christmas |
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Leadership training in our home |
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Santa and his reindeer at church's New Year's Eve party |
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Kids in costume for New Year's Eve party |
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Abigail and her little friend |
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The participants of November's Timothy Leadership Training |
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TLT particiapant asks for advice in writing his action plan |
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TLT in November - lots of time for discussion |
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Adult Sunday School class |
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Mukachevo congregation's house on their property - taken from the far end of the lot, looking at the entrance to the building |
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Bridal couple, adorned with crowns, hold robe of Orothodx priest and walk around altar 3 times |
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George greets the congregation |
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Drunks occupy the park benches in the afternoon |
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View of our town - Mukachevo |
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Mukachevo castle in the distance |
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Mukachevo castle from inside courtyard |
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Horse-pulled carts are a common sight |
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Many Ukrainians plow their fields with horses or by hand. |
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Monastery of the Caves in Kiev. |
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One of the churches as part of the Monastery of the Caves in Kiev. |
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Fish and meat counter at the produce market |
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Traditional wooden church |
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The bakery where we buy hot, fresh bread every day |
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The apartment building we live in. The bottom, left-side windows are to our apartment |
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pelmeni - a typical Ukrainian specialty (ground meat wrapped in noodle and boiled) |
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