Archive for the 'Ukraine' Category

Christmas with “The Orphans”

Last week Dad, Steven and I went to Uzhgorod with a team of other YWAMers for our annual Christmas program in the orphanage. I really feel like this year went even better than last. You see, last year the orphans where just that to me: “The Orphans”. But a year later, after multiple visits to […]

Planes, Trains and Automobiles.

Actually, planes weren’t involved in my travels last month, but they will be next month. I’m sorry I haven’t posted in such a long time but between the travel and preparing for our trip to America, I’ve had very little time to type an update. In July my girlfriend Erica came to visit and help […]

Sightseeing in Kyiv

After 7 months I’ve finally done some sightseeing around my adoptive city. Three young women who were part of the medical outreach are friends of ours from the United States and Dad (Tour Guide Barbie) wanted to show them the city. He did his research and had a good route picked out for us, here […]

World Cup Fun Downtown

On Friday, after getting back from a medical mission to Zhitomir, we headed down to Kreshatyk for some ice cream. When we got there we found half the city gathered in Independance Square wathing the World Cup! (There’s a really big screen that had the game on.) It was like being in a stadium almost. […]

Zhytomyr Medical & Dental Outreach

For the last couple of weeks my Dad has been with a Dental and Medical outreach team working in villages near the city of Zhytomyr. I joined them for the last couple days and it was great to hear about all they were able to accomplish. The team included two nurses, two dental hygienists, one […]