Mini Outreach Ukraine

Outreach Ukraine

 What a journey, we have experienced so much,and personally.
After a long journey we arrived late in the evening , we stayed in an after-school daycare.
Here come the children of approximately the 7 poorest families of the village, they eat there to.
There was a girl from Germany who volunteered to work there for a year, Mimi was her name, Louise knew here and thats how we got there.
So friendly! and delicious muffins and cakes she baked for us ... the other women who worked there often cooked for us and the food is very good!

 On Wednesday we went to the bazaar, I wanted to take pictures but a man followed us and he did not want us to take pictures.
Then we went to sort of a concert.
The children danced and sang, nice to see.
 In Urkaine they celebrate Women's quite big so Thursday we went to church to celebrate women's day.
There was a long table with all kinds of good food, the pastor did a sermon with short video clips (which was easier for us to follow it) they did a game and a woman said a poem, all about women's honor.

On Friday we went to Leviv, the second largest city of Ukraine.
Very different from the countryside, because the roads in the villages were very bad and people where poorer.
The city was more modern.
We walked around a bit, visited small market and had a great dinner at the Greek.
Then we did Street Ministry, I havent done that often so I find it quite difficult.
Some of us were playing music and singing.
 Some drew portraits of people or just chat, it's still quite difficult to talk in the direction of faith.
I bought a sandwich for a homeless woman and gave her 5 euros.

 On Sunday we went to another church congregation, the churches there are not very big.
One of us did a short sermon.

In the second week each of us did one day with the children of the daycare.
 I was with Nicole, she is a leader and with David.
We did a little acting game of how the Bible is the Living Word, David had to stand still.
We tried him to move but nothing works until I put a Bible in his hands.
 Also we did a Bible quiz with them, they really liked that.
 The rest of the group told the biblical story of Jonah through coloring.
We did another acting game of the Good Sameritan, which was great fun and children found it fun!
We made cards and decorated muffins and then we gave them to each other.
Some red Bible texts about God's love.

 What we also did was visit the boarding school / orphanage.
There stayed many children who had disabilities.
They gave so much love, constant hugs and they wanted to hold hands.
Also they find cameras and Iphones lots of fun!
I constantly had to take pictures of them.

I thought the children knew little of the gospel but when Chloe told them about God and Jesus they knew very much.
Chloe worked with the Wordless book, the wordless book.
It had 5 colors, yellow, black, red, white and green.
Yellow stood for God, black for sin, red for the blood of Jesus, white for forgiveness of sin and green for a new life in God.
Later, she asked them questions and they knew much, if they had a question correctly they got bookmarks.
 She had made them and had put on it, God loves you in the Ukrains.

On Saturday, very early we went back but we end up very quickly in a queue for customs.
We waited 9 hours before we could cross the border to Poland.
About a half hour drive and the bus broke down.
That had already done earlier in the week when we were on oure way route to a nursing home, we did not when there.
Before we went on this trip we had prayed and someone got an "impression" / idea that we would meet someone at a gas station with a green sweater / overall Actually, I totally forgot but when the bus for the first time broke down we were before a gas station and someone with a green sweater / overall helped us to fix the van.
We then prayed for him, maybe he needed it :)
Later the second time that the bus broke down another guy with a green overall helped us.
We waited for 4 hours, the mechanic took the bus to his garage and we had coffee and tea at his home. When the bus was fixed we went on oure way.
Meanwhile we were up from 3:30 in the morning and it was now around ten o clock in the evening.. But after a ten minutes driving, the bus broke down again.
So we prayed.
Eventually we ended up in a 4 star hotel which was great.
We had the feeling that we had to talk about certain things, that God wanted us to do that.
So late in the evening, we had a good conversation, it was really good to talk about it.
I slept so good that night, a nice bed and nice shower, outside was lovely weather and the birds chirping....wonderful nature!
And the hotel was cheap , but the insurance paid:)
 The next day we had a delicious breakfast mmmm .. Around half past eleven we went on our way, we now had another bus.
Nine o'clock in the evening we arrived in Herrnhut :) safe !
Thanks to God.

Week Seven

Yes , i am in week 7 , time go's so fast!

I just finished packing for mini outreach and while im typing i am thinking if i didnt forget something.

This week was busy ….busy for me because a lot of things were in my head.

Oure topic from the speaker ( Rogerio) was not a light one, it was on Spiritual Warfare, it was interesting!

My mom celebrated her birthday and it was weird that i could not be there to celebrate it with my family.

I was thinking of mini outreach, i prepared some things for the kids.

And i was struggling with the fact that God loves me….me …Pia.

So , this was an interesting week!

I really liked how Rogerio was teaching , he is so friendly.

Spiritual Warfare

1. What, this week, has made the biggest impact on your thoughts/beliefs about spiritual warfare?

The fact that we should not be intimidated of the devil. We should be impressed by God.

How subtle the devil can be , trough media, movies like Harry Potter.

By fear we give the devil authority.

Spiritual warfare is so real.

When bad things are happening (thoughts or other things) u can just say to yourself "STOP IT" 

I really liked how he explained that to us and show us the clip.

2. Isn't it amazing how God values not what we do but who we are?! Through this week and even reaching into last week, how has God been challenging your views of your identity?

Yes , i really struggled with the fact that im His child.

I felt like i should spend more time with Him and i did that.

I know i need to be more aware of the act that im a child of God.

3.Were there any scriptures in particular that stood out to you this week? Maybe a verse that God seems to be speaking directly to you from?

Psalm 13 but especially verse 4 , it says ; enlighten my eyes .  I pray that God will enlighten my eyes and that i will see the truth.

Each more and more.