the de Vuyst Pages      

 

                                      

 

Sights and Ministry Pictures

Church Retreat Video

 

 

Open Sunday School lesson in park

Children engage in craft during open sunday school lesson

Singing in the park during open Sunday school lesson

Calvin College students help harvest potato crop to support church building

Ukraine Independence Day Church Picnic

Cooling off during church picnic

Washing potatoes for church picnic

TLT participants show off their action plans

Studying Biblical texts for TLT's Pastoral Care module

Mukachevo church leaders finish TLT on stewardship

Baptism of the Komar children

Priests and pastors at ecumenical service

George leads the ecumenical service

Children recite poems and sing for Christmas

Children on Christmas

Leadership training in our home

Santa and his reindeer at church's New Year's Eve party

Kids in costume for New Year's Eve party

Abigail and her little friend

The participants of November's Timothy Leadership Training

TLT particiapant asks for advice in writing his action plan

TLT in November - lots of time for discussion

Adult Sunday School class

Children's Sunday School

Sunday school

Mukachevo congregation's house on their property - taken from the far end of the lot, looking at the entrance to the building

Sunday school

Bridal couple, adorned with crowns, hold robe of Orothodx priest and walk around altar 3 times

George greets the congregation

Drunks occupy the park benches in the afternoon

View of our town - Mukachevo

Mukachevo castle in the distance

Mukachevo castle from inside courtyard

Mountain village

Horse-pulled carts are a common sight

Many Ukrainians plow their fields with horses or by hand.

Monastery of the Caves in Kiev.

Monastery rooftop

One of the churches as part of the Monastery of the Caves in Kiev.

Fish and meat counter at the produce market

Traditional wooden church

The bakery where we buy hot, fresh bread every day

The apartment building we live in. The bottom, left-side windows are to our apartment

pelmeni - a typical Ukrainian specialty (ground meat wrapped in noodle and boiled)

 

Mailing address:  Ilona Zrini 10/2, Mukachevo 89600, Transcarpathia, Ukraine

email: gdevuyst@crcna.org

Links to: Christian Reformed Church in N. America   and  Christian Reformed World Missions