Arrival

Katrina is back!!! I just checked her blog and she hasn't had time to post pictures yet. I'm not sure that I have time this morning but I'm going to try anyway.

And just a day later, on her heels as it were, we met the Touching Lives for Christ Team Europe. The first challenge was to get us all in the van and to load their luggage. We took them and their luggage to a Kyiv appartment. The building guard was kind enough to let us put the trailer in their storage room. After rearranging the humanitarian aid and the then rearranging the trailer about ten times, the guys managed to get it in. The first couple of days we seeing the sights of Kyiv. We visited the Chornobyl museum. This was Dave's and my first time. It was also quite memorable because I tripped on the tram tracks in the street trying to get to it and fell flat on my face in the middle of Kyiv traffic. We went to the WW2 museum and various other statues. Several became quiet or teary-eyed after we visited Babin Yar where 100,000 people were mowed down into a ravine during Nazi times. One guy caught a snooze on a park bench.
We did half of the sight-seeing with sixteen people packed in our nine passenger van.

We finally reloaded all the luggage and headed down the road for the 300 mile Kyiv to Nova Odessa trip.

And now we're ready to start youth camp. Dave has headed off to meet our first set of campers at the train station at 6 am. Then we take the first load out to the site to set up. We're anticipating between 20 and 30 campers that we are placing on three teams. Please pray with us that God will change their lives at this time.