Dear Frazer Family, Ukraine has been such a totally new experience for me. Since I have been here God has really taken me out of my comfort zone, and has shown me the selfish ways I have that I never new existed. The food, culture, living conditions, even the water is not the same. I [...]
GOOD MORNING AMERICA!!!! We are now closing day five of our wonderful trip in the Ukraine. Today was filled with lots of new experiences. I for one had to step out of my comfort zone. I had to play hackey-sack for a solid hour, talking about a baseball players nightmare!!!!!! But in all seriousness I [...]
Today we got the chance to go to the deaf camp and interact with those kids. I got off the bus knowing some sign language, having forgotten most of what my aunt had taught me. only 6 people at the camp knew American sign language, the rest was Ukrainian sign language that looks completely different. [...]
There are many times in life when we want nothing more than to just be held and wrapped in the arms of Christ through heartache, loneliness, hurt, excitement or even pure joy. We long just to feel His heartbeat next to ours. Today we had a wonderful opportunity to work in a baby orphanage with [...]
Today was the first day we got out in the community, and as a whole, I can honestly say it was unreal. I only thought the language barrier in the Dominican Republic of Spanish was difficult, but Russian has been a real set back. Russian is a language that is very hard to just pick [...]
After nearly 22 straight hours of travel, sleep deprivation, and Montgomery-like weather (without the AC), we woke up and went to the Sunday morning service at the Zhytomyr Central Baptist Church. The service started at 9:00 AM and lasted 2 hours. Though it was a little stuffy and spoken in Russian, our translators (Ina, Sveta, [...]
After arriving in the Ukraine we had a 3 hour bus ride to the town of Zhytomyr where we will be staying for the week. Our van driver is a retired Russian military officer and we later found out was quite the comedian (though we couldn’t understand a word he was saying). He tried to [...]
Playing catch up. This are two post from our travel days. Unfortunately, we didn’t have internet so here we are a day late. Dear Frazer Family, We all arrived in the Amsterdam airport safely! It was a long flight and most of us are functioning on little to no sleep. It is approximately 8:30 here [...]