From Andrew

Hey friends! So the first week is coming to a close and it has been a blast. Vacation Bible School has been a big hit with bible skits, recreation games, and crafts, and the kids are loving it at both Christ Fellowship and New Life Church. A few students also volunteered to help some of the Josiah Venture Intern's at School 51. There, we got the chance to see how the interns lead English class the first day, and then the we were able to lead the class the next day! Lviv, Ukraine is a wonderful city, and just getting to see the glorious nature and society that God has created has been amazing. This experience so far has been astounding, and it has been a real blessing being able to serve here!

Loving Kids From Lviv

Hi everyone!  I am the first blogger to post something, so I'm excited to be writing this! Since Tuesday, we have been leading a VBS (Vacation Bible School) for New Life and Christ Fellowship churches.  We all thought that we weren't going to start VBS until next week, but we found out Monday night that we actually were going to begin the next day.  At first, most of the team was pretty nervous about trying to lead VBS the next day but once Tuesday morning rolled around, we all rose to the occasion and had lots of fun playing with the kids and showing them Jesus' love!  Sadly, these 3 days of VBS have flown by and tomorrow will be our last day hanging out with the kids.  After reflecting on these past 3 days, I realized how much I have come to love these kids! Even though I haven't been able to converse with most of the kids I've met, I've had such a blast playing with them and loving on them! This experience has shown me that no matter what language we speak, or where we come from, we are all connected through God and I'm so blessed to have been able to meet all of my new brothers and sisters in Christ!  Thanks for reading my first ever blog post!  God bless! 
Love,
Cory Stoffel

Three Words

We asked everyone to give us three words to describe their time so far...

Demetri- integration of culture
Trevor- sacrificial eye-opening fun
Simon- teach eat repeat
Johnny- fun exciting hot
Abby Burdick- exhausting new exciting
Brooke- exhausting beautiful unique
Lauren- Lauren wants cheese.
Kelly- exhausting exhausted exhaust
Aaron- fun connection different
Clayton- We're in Ukraine!
Kayla- scary stressful reunited
Sara- exquisite thrilled tiring
Connor- new exciting culture
Cory- exciting tiring beautiful
Zach- exhilarating exciting beautiful
Amy- inspiring tiring perspective
Jordan- unexpected beautiful tiring
Chloe- different unexpected perspective
Nathan- inspiring tiring exciting
Jacky- Ukrainians are hipsters.
Andrew- is the best
Blake- promising beautiful shivers
Kaitlyn- beautiful tired anticipation
Scott Alvord- Ahhhh yeah Ukraine!
Natalie- complete culture shock
Abby Bradbury- love the people
Skyler- exhilarating sluggish colloquial
Stefanie- excited encouraged tired
Chris- Ukraine is awesome
Joseph- meeting Californians here
Janessa- cobblestony, lovely, humid
Vanessa- serve long extravagant
JD- great without luggage
Kay- reconnect excited
Scott Fisher- reconnect reminded refocus
Ryan- nervous excited pumped
Jordan Law-  unique exhausting fun
Josh- excited expecting unknown
Lyndsey- excited overwhelmed new