Suggestions, Anyone?

We don't have a solid holiness church here to go to, to brainstorm. We don't have a board of directors on the spot that we can call to a meeting to debate what we can or should do. So since internet is making the world smaller, we'll throw out some questions here.
1. Do you have good ideas for ways to relax or for stress relief, family style? We're running out of inexpensive ideas.
2. What do you do to take care of your business matters in a society where your communication is possible but difficult, where people cannot trust their own countrymen much less foreigners? The business takes long hours, requires enduring frequent scoldings (maybe just because a clerk is in a bad mood, not because anyone has done something out of the way) and it's hard to delegate when only about one Ukrainian in a thousand feels that white lies are not okay.
3. What do you do in a church setting where even "Christian" families are taught that "white lies" are okay? that the end justifies the means? We can show scriptures which oppose it but it looks like we're the only ones who believe this way, that others interpret the Bible differently.
4. What do you do to establish a feeling of unity with others of like faith, when hardly anyone who believes in biblical living is around?
5. What do you do to maintain friendships in a society that thrives on offenses, where making one person happy often means offending someone else? . . . and it's not possible to do or be everything with everyone all the time?