The Ukraine team returned safe and sound Wednesday, two days late due to a canceled flight.  It was a very fruitful trip.  Testimonies and photos will be posted soon.  Thanks so much to everyone for your prayers and support!

The boys on the last day of our Day Camp in Brovary.  Everyday we did sports and other outdoor activities, crafts, and Bible time.  Tomorrow we are off to Volodarka Village and Saturday will be a street outreach with Calvary Chapel Kyiv in the neighborhood where the church meets.  We are all fine.  Will be home Monday.  God bless!

We are all well here in Kyiv, despite the hottest summer on record.  Tomorrow is our last day at the Day Club in Brovary Village.  Please pray that many of these kids will choose to accept Jesus as their Lord and Savior.   Thursday we will be visiting a group of babushkas (older ladies) that Calvary Chapel Kyiv have been ministering to and Friday we head out to one of the villages we visited last time to do a program for the kids.  Saturday is street outreach with the church here.  Please continue to hold us up in your prayers.  Thanks so much.  God bless.

The Wednesday Night Middle School Bible Class visited a local nursing home this evening.  They sang songs with the residents and did a skit.  Everyone appreciated the kids' visit.  God willing, this is the first of many regular visits.

King Ahasuerus (left) makes Esther his new queen in the Esther Drama.

PERU

Two mission trips are departing this week.  Stephanie and Adam depart today for Peru.  For prayer requests and up to date information on this trip please check their blog regularly:

Two Halfs in Peru

 

UKRAINE

 

Sam, Bill, Tammy, Noah and Warren leaving Thursday for Kyiv

The Ukraine trip leaves tomorrow and returns July 26^th.  Updates for that trip will be posted here when and if I can get internet access.  Please pray for both teams for safe travel, health, protection, and God’s Spirit to work in our hearts and in the hearts of those to whom we minister.  Both trips are evangelistic in purpose – reaching the hearts of the unsaved with the love of God and gospel of Jesus Christ.  Please pray that this purpose will be accomplished.

The Middle School evangelism team went to the Scottsville Independence Day parade Saturday and passed out gospel tracts to the crowd.  Over 1500 seeds were planted and many people were reading the tracts to their children while waiting for the parade to begin.  This was the first street outreach experience for most of the youth and they all did great.  Pray that the gospel message contained in each of these tracts will bear fruit for God’s Kingdom!

Janna, Rachel, Devon & Madeline heading to the parade.

Prepared with $2 million bill tracts and children's gospel pamphlets.

Children and adults eagerly received the tracts.

Mia and Levi

Madeline and youthful spectator

Janna and Rachel

The team!  Thanks to everyone who took their Saturday morning to share the gospel!!

Written by Terri Wood

This summer I was one of a group of 11 (representing California, Virginia, Kansas, and Oklahoma) who was privileged to go to Jacmel, Haiti and minister to the beautiful folks there.  Even before the 7.2 magnitude earthquake in January, the Haitian people have lived in the most poverty-stricken country in the Western Hemisphere.  Most are hungry, homeless, and jobless.  But many and more each day are finding hope in Jesus Christ due to partnerships with churches and missionaries from all over the world.  We were able to love on the people there in the hospitals, orphanages, schools, villages, streets and churches.  We saw God lifted up and people saved.  God blessed what we were doing and sometimes showed us in tangible ways.  If I could go back tomorrow and knew it was God's will, I would go.  I miss them so much and thank God and you for sending me.  Please pray for them and the ministry of Calvary Chapel Haiti Initiative.  This organization is there for the next several years and their vision is to see people come to the knowledge of Jesus Christ as their Lord and to help the people build an economy and a future.

School outreach - sharing the love of Jesus and a fun craft for the children to take home.

Film outreach - showed film "God - Man" in creole and after offered message of salvation. About 20 people came forward.

Saturday, June 19^th, 14 people, including teens and children from Calvary Fluvanna and Calvary Green, set up the Prayer Station on Charlottesville’s Downtown Mall.   The Prayer Station design was modified to meet the city’s standards for vendors.  Even though our vendor space was located in a low traffic area, we were still able to pray with and witness to many precious people.  Several of the youth were street witnessing for the first time and all are anxious to go again.

The remodeled Prayer Station.  We offered prayer, gospel literature, and free cold water.

 Adrianne witnesses to a man from Colombia.

Brad encouraging a homeless couple who recently moved to town and are searching for employment and housing.

We passed out gospel tracts in Spanish, Chinese, and English.

Happy street evangelists.