getting ready.

it's officially here, the last week of life in Abbotsford. it's kind of strange because partially it does feel like training started yesterday and at the same time, the Mark Centre has, to a certain extent become home. The realization has kind of hit us in the last couple of days as flights have been finalized, prayer cards are being sent out, talks have been had with the host countries... that we are actually leaving.
this week has been a lot of dealing with 'practical matters'. teaching on culture/culture shock. language learning. teaching esl. really moving away from the theory and into the actuality of what we will be doing.
I'm very excited, we leave March 4th from Seattle (at 630am, meaning a VERY early morning drive from Abbotsford), flying through NYC and Kiev to Dnepropetrovsk (which is about an hour away from Zaporozhye, where we will actually be staying). I must say... I and (the rest of our team is very excited for what God has got in store for us in Ukraine, whatever it holds.

Meet the Team!

Once I get to Ukraine my contact home will be fairly limited, probably only one chance a week to get on the computer, but I hope to keep this blog updated regularly... I know you would think with the amount of updates I do currently that we were only able to use it once a month...).
Prayer Requests:

• safe travels 
• Amelia still needs her visa application to come through for her to be able to enter the country, pray for that to happen quickly. 
• quick acclimatization to the culture and language
• John and Evelyn Weins, our host missionaries
• our ministry, whatever it is, that God is preparing the places for us to go and people for us to interact with.