Ukraine
Challenge
UPDATE 4:
July 6-12, 2003
“UKRAINE
CHALLENGE GOES TO AFRICA”
This week’s title comes from long-time, long-term Ukraine
Challenge volunteer Beth Riddick. While
she says her heart is in Ukraine, she left for Angola July 9.
Pray for Beth as she explores an open door and a new mission field in her
life. Beth is a student in the
Divinity School of Campbell University in Buies Creek, NC and the Minister to
Children and Youth at FBC, Farmville, NC.
Meanwhile, back in Ukraine, Ron Zedick and his team are in
the beautiful Carpathian Mountains of western Ukraine in a little village called
Torchinovichee. His team members are
Tom and Angela Morris and Mark and Billy Scism.
They are leading a children’s camp in the stadium of the local school
and conducting a basketball clinic for teenagers.
(A little history about this team and location:
Ron is the son of NC Partnership’s first coordinators, Frank and Mary
Zedick. The Zedick family has
distant relatives living in this village.)
The medical team of Joey, Gina, Ryan and Megan Clark; Howard and Malinda
Foster; and Dr. Angela Chavis-Mickey finished their work in Zdvishivka and took
their clinic down the road to Nova Zalissia for a few days.
Their work was a groundbreaking event bringing many people to a
dentist’s chair for the first time and into the new Baptist church for the
first time. Pastor Michael (Misha)
Vahknenko was on the scene the first day to welcome people and lay the
foundation for further evangelism. The
numbers for the medical team were 197 people seen in the medical clinic and 114
people seen by the dentist in nine days.
Children’s camp and youth activities were finished in Rasosha with an
evangelistic service in the town’s public auditorium.
Singers from a nearby city shared their music, pastor Leonid preached,
and several made professions of faith. This
was the first time that the people of this town had hosted an American team but
what hospitality they offered! Approximately
130 children attended day camp and 50 youth came in the evenings.
This team was Jack and Joyce Burgart, Norm Abell, Karissa Bracknell,
Linda Haynes and Beth Nichols. A
special word of appreciation goes to the interpreters for this team:
Sveeta Artuh, Sveeta Vasyk and Tolik Vahknenko.
Thank you for your prayers on behalf of these groups.
They truly saw and experienced in other ways many answers to these
prayers everyday. Continue to pray
for these teams as they return and the Billy Sellers team that came on Saturday,
July 12. Pray that the final funds,
materials and volunteers for the summer’s work will be put in exactly the
right places.
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