By the Way

Monday, we travelled farther than we normally do, to visit Lena, (center between Katya, her friend on left and Anya, her sister on right) on her birthday. She travels a lot so we weren't totally sure that she would be home. She was really excited to see us but there was a funeral in her church that day so a lot of hustling and bustling was going on in her home.

But along the way there were a couple of interesting shots . . . the first came at the police post just outside of Nikolaev. It looked like that day was on-the-job training for a whole group of new recruits. Probably fifteen policemen stood along the road, stopping just about every vehicle that passed. We saw three policemen point their batons that indicate that the driver is supposed to stop at one car. Yes, we were stopped and sent on our way without incident. This was the best picture I could get of one cluster.


In homes, people take their shoes off at the door. In stores, no one takes their shoes off. But outside of both homes and stores will be a metal bar on which to clean shoes. Here's the store.

Here's the fellow just finishing cleaning his shoes, the farther one is a bit blurry with his movement.

As traffic increases on Ukrainian roads, so do the accidents. This is one we saw today. The driver is sitting in the truck. The first time we passed two semi's were sitting on the shoulder. The second time, just this one.

As we came back into home territory, I enjoyed the beautiful sunset.

Most of these were just incidents along the way, not really anything major to us. . . except we're thankful for God's protection on the highway!

Some things not quite so unimportant that are going on right now. A church family is preparing documents to go to Moscow for an interview with American immigration authorities, contemplating immigration to America. This will involve us helping their family with a trip to Kyiv. While they are gone for around a week, we'll be responsible for their four children.

Everyone except one child said memory verses at Kids' Klub this past week. They've earned the required number of points to have a special event. Pray for us that we can prepare something both fun and spiritually meaningful.