So this morning at 9 a.m we had a worship session that started with finding out our teams and where we'd be heading come March. We were all nervous and antsy, and as Luke displayed the teams on the projector there was a dead silence throughout the whole entire room. They then headed directly into the worship songs which was a brilliant idea to let everything soak in. It was a hard day for Steve but he's trusting God to bring him peace in knowing that His purpose will be served. So if you could keep that in your prayers that would be awesome. ANYWAYS so
now for the information part! We are in a team of 7 that will be headed to the Ukraine!! We will be meeting with the lovely couple pictured below who are apparently extremely excited that we will be joining them.

 We will be serving in the city of Zaporizhzhya. It is an industrial city with a million people on the Dneiper River. It has a culture broken by alcoholism, occultism, 70 years of oppression and an 80% divorce rate. We will more than likely be working with some youth groups, in churches, helping with labour like gardening for elderly people and visiting an orphanage or 2 while we are there among other things.
All evening we've had Russian language programs running in the the Great Room. It's been really fun to learn so far and it feels like we're actually going somewhere now. Although it already feels that as a whole group we're really splitting apart so we're trying to combat that as well!
As far as funding goes, we still need some support, but we're close to our goal and would like any funds directed to us instead of MBMSI. After a certain point we can't give tax receipts as well as any money sent to MBMSI over and above the amount we need gets sent out to other MBMSI programs and we won't have access to it for our other needs. So if it comes directly to us we can play that one as it comes. If you still feel lead to support us, we would be very grateful and you can send it to Steve's Mom Mary-Lou, at our address (contact me for that information).
Thanks so much for the thoughts and prayers and we'll continue to keep you all updated as we find out more!!!