Today at the service we combined the time we would spend separately with the youth and children and began preparations for a special service March 5th. March 8th is Mother's Day in Ukraine and we are preparing to have a special service that day. We want mother, and even fathers, of the youngsters we minister to to come and join our service. We are also extending a broader invitation to those we are meeting in the neighborhood at Perechin. We were so encouraged to have 16 youth and children come today. Two of these were visitors.
Stephen and I worked with the boys to begin building a blind wall and stage for a special puppet show we will have on the special day. Cheryl and some of the girls began making beautiful colored flowers from paper which we will help to decorate our wall, etc. The puppet presentation will feature a story about obedience. We are praying that the service will not only invite those to participate in our weekly services, but to witness to the mothers what our services are about.
After our time working on preparations inside, we took about eight of the children with us and went on an adventure in the streets of Perechin to hand out invitations Vita had prepared. It was quite an exciting time traversing the neighborhood with eight energenic children.
Below are photos of our time today.
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| Cheryl and girls making flowers |
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| Tim & Stephen helping boys build puppet partition |
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| The boys getting right on in there! |
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| That's a mighty big puppet in there! |
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| Passing out invitations in the community |
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| Here's a couple of boys in front of the apartment house |
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| Leah and girls lead the way |
Way to go! This is a great story! Love the kids going to the street with flyers! We pray that this ministry will increase and many more will come to know the Lord!
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