Soccer and Stuff

Here are some pictures from Steve's soccer team's last game, yesterday. 

Some of the guys on the team: 

 It seems that for this portion of the season the team is once again, made up of completely new guys. A lot of them are older than the usual ones we try to reach - they are 19-21 so Steve was finding it a bit of a challenge to interact with them. They are beyond the Young Life age and are "too cool" for Christianity plus they speak very little English however Steve has managed to get to know them and have some good conversations with some of them.

 It's been so nice lately - around +13 most days and beautifully sunny!!
The field they usually play on is completely surrounded by garbage, it's so gross! I think next time I go watch a game I'll bring gloves and a garbage bag along!!

We have been in talks with Adventures in Missions about getting some World Race teams here, which we are very excited about. We hope to have one by summertime if all goes as planned and the situation in the country doesn't get worse by then. We are already making plans of things we could have a team do and thinking about logistically things like really cheap accommodations so prayer for that would be awesome.

In country news, there is a referendum happening in Crimea tomorrow or Sunday maybe? I don't know, I've half stopped paying attention. Anyways we noticed yesterday that the government building had more police in gear outside again so we think the government is gearing up for the consequences of that. We are sure that Crimea won't be part of Ukraine again (so glad we visited last year when we had the chance!) but we don't anticipate any danger here, as we haven't had any yet. Continued prayer for that situation is appreciated - we've felt so peaceful and joyful and just knowing how many people have been praying for us has just been amazing! We're entirely overwhelmed by the support we have back home and are so thankful for the love!! 

Another prayer request - we are planning a worship night at New Hope Church on March 22nd. We have worship here every Wednesday night but thought it would be great to get a larger group of people together every once in a while. We talked to the worship leader at church and he was so excited about it! We are getting together for a practice tomorrow evening and we're hoping to have a decent sized crowd come out next Saturday.