Pray for Jake

So, this is long overdo! I have told many of you about this, but I have never got around to posting on it. Most of you all know Jake Knotts. He's a great friend and I get to serve the Lord with him here in Chernigov. A few months ago he had some tests done. The tests showed that his kidneys are not working properly and that he could be in the beginning stages of kidney disease. Right now they are in California waiting to have more tests done by a kidney specialist. These tests are very important to see what steps will have to be taken in the future to fight whatever is attacking his kidneys. I want to ask that you would be praying for God to pour out his blessings on Jake, Anya and Maia. That the Lord would heal Jake of this condition completely and bring him and the family back home to us! ( Knotts famiy... We miss you and love you guys! ) Those of you that are wondering if there is any relation to Don knotts. Jake denies it, but I am pretty sure there is! They look too much alike!

Church Life

Here are just a few pics I took last week of some of our church services. We are going through Hebrews on Sundays and the Book of Jonah on Wednesday nights. We also hit the streets to invite children to our kids club we have at the church. Gavin and Emma were so excited to hand out flyer's to other kids and help hang posters at all the bus stops. We ended the time with pizza and games. They enjoyed that part too!

Pray for Reenie

I wanted to write and ask you all to pray for my sister Reenie. For quite a while she has been having really bad neck pain. This past week it has been very bad and I wanted to ask you to pray that the Lord would heal her. She has seen doctors here in Ukraine and in the states about it, but nothing has seemed to help. Please pray that God would heal her and encourage and strengthen her in this hard time. Thank you!

80's Birthday Party

Last week our good friend Mira celebrated her birthday. She had her heart set on an 80's party and she did a great job setting the scene! Mira, thanks for inviting us to your party. We had a blast! Mira is the one in the red sweater...

Is This The One

The other night, after church, we were waiting at the bus stop to get home. After waiting for about 20 minutes, we were all quite anxious for our bus to come. The low temp sort of caused us to zone out as we watched each bus come and go. All of the sudden we realized that Emma had come up with this little ditty and was performing it for everyone. Unfortunately, we didn't have our camera so we asked her to recreate it for you this morning.

We're Back

We're back in Ukraine. We had a wonderful time with family and were able to connect with some old friends. We also got the chance to share and hopefully, encourage a lot of people with what the Lord is doing here. It was very busy and it flew by, but we had some very sweet times with our family. Our California Christmas was wonderful and the snowy, January in Maine thrilled the kids and made for some great pics. Here are a handful of photos from our trip. We hope you enjoy them! It's good to be home. We're getting back on schedule as the jet-lag is easing off so we'll be able to let you all know what is going on here soon.
Love you all, thanks for all your prayer!

California...

Maine...