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Sights and Ministry Pictures & Video

Our First Five Years (Celebrating 5 years as a congregation in 2009)  - 7 min.  

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Group photo of the first training of Timothy Leadership Training in Ukraine

Timothy Leadership Training

Timothy Leadership Training

Easter skit

Easter skit

A family at church

Two precious children

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

A water pump on the church's property

Close up of the run-down house on the church's property, looking at the entry door

Mukachevo church's building - looking from the street. The house sits right on the sidewalk.

Sunday school

Sunday school

Kids in costume for New Year's Eve

A beautiful view of the Carpathian Mountains

Studying financial responsibility and tithing at the church retreat

Good listeners at the church retreat

church retreat participants

Time for fun and fellowship at church retreat - George teaches a bit about golf

Service project for physically disabled

Playing Wii

Having fun

Playing foosball

All smiles - our goal for service project

Reformation Day Service

Skit about sin for Reformation Day

Youth from Mukachevo visit Ivano-Frankivsk

Abigail with oldest church member, "Babushka Maria"

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

The groom's parents' home. The green building is the living quarters, the white the kitchen. The outhouse is in the back

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