Andrew and Lisa are our Roma camp song leaders. They are having a blast in practicing the camp songs.
Birthday song video at HOM
Ukrainian birthday songs and well wishes for the people who had their birthday yesterday.
House of Mercy team craft preparation time
House of Mercy team preparation meeting with the craft team helpers. The older teenagers from House of Mercy will be helping and leading different programs. It is amazing to see them grow and start serving in this capacity....
Roma Team Camp preparation
Each team is busy getting things set up for the Camp. Here is the Roma team preparation meeting with our helpers. Today is a hot day.... you can feel like you are melting under the Sun.
Team worship at the church with House of Mercy
Ukraine team Sunday worship with the House of Mercy children
A celebration at House of Mercy
One of the many important celebrations in House of Mercy will be birthdays. Yesterday night as we arrived to House of Mercy, we joined in the birthday celebration of 2 staffs and 2 children. It is amazing to see 4 people with the same birthday.
More pictures of our trip to HoM
Uncle Tomson has already posted a few pictures from his tablet, thanks to roaming access to the internet. Let me fill out the story now that we have safely arrived at HoM and connected back to the internet.Our team prepares to board the cross-atlantic flight to Amsterdam
Finally on board! We get dinner, breakfast, and a snack as we fly to Amsterdam, then transfer to Budapest.
At Budapest, we meet up with a minibus to cross the Hungary/Slovakia/Ukraine border and reach the House of Mercy.
Finally, after many long hours, we arrive, safe and sound!
Thank you for all your prayers of protection! Now God's work through us can truly begin!
Team arrived at House of Mercy
We have arrived at House of Mercy safely. It is a great time to see familiar faces and children growing up......such a happy time.....
Team arrived in Budapest
Ukraine team has arrived safely in Budapest. Praise God for getting all our luggages.We have met up with our mini bus driver and managed to load all 10 big pieces of luggages and all our carry on with room to spare.
We will be starting our long trip to cross two borders into Ukraine. Here is a picture just right at the landing gate of Budapest airport......right after we used the local facilities. ;)
Team arrived safely in Amsterdam. Now waiting at the airport park for the next flight to Budapest
It was a pretty good flight to Amsterdam..We have to walk a long way to get to the next gate.
Ukraine STM team building time
Calvin is getting a wet and wild experience with this water balloon potato timer while he is trying to give correct answers to a long list of questions.
Ukraine Team
Ukraine Team meeting at Tomson and Lisa's home
Our second last big group meeting before the packing night at church.
Ukraine STM 2013 Team picture
Here is our Ukraine STM 2013 Team picture...we actually tried many times before we can successfully complete this team picture.Go Team Go.
It is only less than one week away before our departure trip to Ukraine.
2013
We will be having a packing night for the mission team on July 24, 2013 Wednesday packing night at the SCCEFC church at 7:00pm. We will see if we can fit everything into the limited baggage space.