Saturday, July 21, 2012

A Look at Our Ministry in the "Swallow" Orphanage....

Leaving for Kharkov!! 12 hour trip.....all night long. :)

Finally arrived in Kharkov!!!

We rode the train for the first time in Ukraine

The orphanage we stayed in all week....

Teaching Bible lesson....

I was one of the leaders of the youngest group ages 13-16

Explaining the rules of the competitions we were about to have....

Eight person-circle tug of war.....it was hard!!!

Three-leg race....

The cafeteria where we ate all our meals....

Ivan and Yuriy leading the children in songs....

Konstantin preaching....

I was one of the preachers for our Sunday morning service with the kids.

Yuriy and Ilya singing a duet....

Playing the flute for the children....

We quoted our group poem and sang our song together for the last time!!!

The front entrance of the orphanage or "Camp Swallow"...

Morning line up....

Ilya teaching Bible to the second group of children ages 17-18

Doing a skit for the kids....my head....Ilya's arms.... :)

Yuriy preaching during one of our night services for the children....

This bus took Yuriy away...he leaves for USA soon to start Medical school!

Morning line up picture....around 80 orphans in this orphanage...

Our camp leaders....we teamed up with the "Little Lambs" ministry.

Ilya preaching the last time before he leaves....

Ilya waiting for the train to take him to Russia! He will visit his birth place.

Playing crazy soccer....no rules for the leaders!! Yes, I am holding the ball!

My awesome group of kids! I love them very much!

I made a camp t-shirt and all the orphans signed it!

It was an amazing week of camp! I will never forget it.....God is so good! :)

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