Victory Day

Yesterday we celebrated Victory day! It is a great holiday and we do really appreciate all of the war veterans. Thank you so much for all that you did!

Romanian schedual:

Saturday, April 26 Leave early for Brasov. (4 hours)

Stay at Hostel. Visit Dracula's castle, hike up a mountain. . . .

Sunday, April 27 Leave Brasov for Cornest (10 hours)

Stop along the way and see some sights. Arrive in Cornest

Monday April 28 Aviation Camp Starts - - - -

Saturday, May 3 Aviation Camp Ends

Travel to Pitesti. (10 hours)

Stay at church.

Sunday, May 4

Church in Pitesti.

Travel to Bucharest. (1 hour)

Tour Bucharest.

Monday, May 5

Leave Bucharest for Odessa (10-12 hours)

Romania

Arkadiy, and a group of six others left for Romania yesterday morning.
I, Anneke, got an email from Arkadiy this morning and he said that they made it to Bucharest safely, last night.

Apparently the border crossings did not go too well, but praise the Lord they are safely there now :)

Today early they left for Brasov.

Please be praying for them as they serve, disciple and minister to the two guys (Andre Solonchuk, Ukrainian - may be a new believers and Geidar Agakishyiev, Ukrainian - unbeliever). Marina (A girl that I disciple). Laura (our mission partner) went with as well so I am excited to see how God is going to use them all!

Orphanage Pictures

Here they are as promised :) Thank you so much for the churches that sent the "easter parcels"! The kids LOVED them!!! Here you can see two of many shining, happy faces.

Retrospective for April

Basketball camp went great! Before the camp started we were a little bit concerned about working together with the school here in our neighborhood. The reason for it is that last year we were kicked out of the school a day before the camp was over. The Gospel was shared. We were wondering how this year would go and whether the school would want us back. But when we went to ask the school principle whether we can have the camp she said of course and she even said that we can talk about Christ and Christianity. Praise be to God for an amazing change! The Gospel was shared and now the time of the follow up has to start.

Thank you so much for praying for Marieke, Brendon, kids and us as we were serving them from the beginning of the February till March. It has been a very challenging time but the Lord is faithful! Even though it was a hard time, the Lord is faithful and He has been encouraging, blessing, and caring for us in ways that we could not even imagine. We felt very confident and secure in His hands because of Him holding us! We are very grateful!

Anneke is back!

Anneke got back to Ukraine on the 2nd of April (a day after George Bush left Ukraine). And it was so good to be together again! It hasn’t been nice (to put it lightly) to be apart from one another for so long! We are grateful for strength that the Lord has granted us to be able to go through this time of being apart. We are so grateful for the Internet and the fact that we could talk to one another everyday. So it is wonderful to be together again!

Laura Hermans

We got another ministry partner!! Her name is Laura Hermans and she will be serving with us for as long as the Lord wills. We are excited to have her over and are looking forward to what the Lord will do in her, in us and through us together as we are serving together here in Ukraine. She will be joining us in all of the ministries we do and it is great to have another helper! She loves the Lord and wants to serve to Him! We are so grateful for another ministry partner!