General Updates

Christina and I went downtown today with Mishael and Noelle for a wedding rehearsal. Caleb will be doing his first wedding in Ukraine on Saturday for a young man in our church who is marrying a young woman from Latvia.

For a number of years Oleg has served in our sister church, tabernacle, in downtown Odessa. Although tabernacle is not a large church it is a very active church with ministries that reach all over Ukraine and beyond.

This week the kids have been enjoying Bible Camp at Gospel House church in Cherkassy. Tomorrow is the last day.

Dear friends please pray for Peter, the pastor of our church in Odessa. He was recently diagnosed with cancer.

Dima and Tolic grew beards to honor my return to Ukraine!

This Tuesday the “Hold On” team arrived in Odessa. Half the team is will is doing free dental work in our village clinics and the other half is doing children’s ministry.

This week was church camp for our church her in Odessa. Since we just arrived in Odessa on the day camp started we were not able to attend but we did drive out to the woods on Sunday for the morning worship and some good fellowship afterward.

We enjoyed a full Sunday today. In the morning I preached at Christina’s home church, House of Gospel. It was about 95f so by the time I was finished my shirt was completely soaked.

A big thanks to everyone who was praying for us as we traveled to Ukraine this week! We arrived safely but a little tired after about 30 hours of traveling on 3 airplanes.

Yes, today is our last Sunday in the US before we return to Ukraine. We had a great time with the people at Bethany Bible up in Kenmore,

The Shipuks are old friends from our first days in Odessa, Ukraine way back in 1994.