We spent yesterday sailing the Black Sea which gave us time to rest, have team preperations and a wonderful worship time led by Patrick Hamilton. Today we go to an orphanage of 250 kids. After the orphanage visit we will split into two groups to visit two HopeHouse families and then attend church. We are sending these blogs through Jack Miller’s blacberry so we are limied on space. We will update more frequently because of this. Thank you for your posts they have been an encouragement to our team.

After 23 hours of flying and a 6 hour bus ride we arrived safely in Odessa. All of our luggage arrived as well as our duffle bags full of orphanage relief supplies. We had a few passport stresses early in the trip, but they served as reminders that we were entering the mission field. We are not in control, but we have to depend on the soveriegn will of God.

In Munich our team gathered as Eugene Schamko led us in a very meaningful devotional that prepared us as a team. Thank you for praying for us.

Welcome Prayer Partners!

Thank you for your commitment to pray for us.  Please pray for our safety as we travel and we’ll look forward to our daily reporting once we arrive in Ukraine.

We thought we’de share with you our daily itinerary so that you can tell where we are each step of the trip. As most of you know, trips like these are often full of unexpected events, so we’ll let you know of any changes as they happen.

Thursday, June 8 
TRAVEL DAY
10:30 am Nashville airport check-in
12:30 pm Depart Nashville
 2:48 pm Arrive Charlotte
 5:15 pm Depart Charlotte

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