Our day Tuesday was an other busy one. Andrew and Ivan had to travel to Kyiv to meet with John Jr. and some government officials so we were left with Ruslan and Pasha to discuss the budgeting for several hours. Ultimately, the goal is for the church here to decide how ever dollar is spent once they receive it. They want to be wise and use it effectively, but there also is a great desire to help every person that asks. We told them that it would be great to have unlimited funds but sadly that’s impossible which creates the need for this budgeting process. Even without the whole group, we were able to make some progress and continue to lay the foundation on which the men will build once we leave.
In the late afternoon, we visited the school where Anya Skoleba teaches English. We had hoped to go last week with our group from Dalraida but unfortunately the dates and times did not coincide well (her class only meets on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 4-6). We promised her that we would come since the group had not been able and we were very impressed! The students love her and we were able to teach them a little as well. While we were there, we also met a familiar face: Sasha, Simba’s translator from last year. He also teaches a class there! We were able to spend a few moments with his students as well and enjoyed getting to catch up a little.
Continue to keep us in your prayers as we finish up here and start our travel home later this week.
Gif & Simba
