A Trip to Slobodishce. Поездка в Слободыще.

The very morning of the trip to the village. ...The weather was not very pleasing.
...And take a look how Vova parked at the bus stop. Such unique guys can be only here:)
...Утро перед посещением. ...Погодка была не очень...



Vova said a few short words...for 40 minutes... to the church.
This church is so unique here. It consists of 20 grandmothers, even thier Pastor was a woman as they didn't have a believer man at chuirch. Now Vova, a young deacon, takes care of this church and goes there every weekend on the servises.





Then we had a meeting with the kids who were at the camp this summer. Must say that the life in a villige in Ukraine is very boring. So the kids wait for the guests from Vinnitsa very much.






So we played games with them.







These kids are so nice. I hope they will exept Christ to their hearts so that He will brighten their souls and lives.





The game for the real MEN!!!














Then there was a lil play.













Oh, I was there too :))














...Буває...
























On the way back.

Comments to I.Murdoch Sandcastle"

Well this book is about how 40 years old man having a wife and two kids fell in love with 20 years old girl. His life wasn't a success and having fallen in love with the young artist his life seemed to become bright and full. He intended to leave his wife and kids, but the circumstances didn't let him to leave his family. So all those 300 pages were about how the circumstances of our life keep us from making our dreams come true and that we all are the prisoners.

Actually, I "hated" reading this book because it was about treatery, but I had to finish reading it as the teacher at my Uni recommended to read it. So now I'm trying to make a conclution what was all about that I spent time reading that book.

Looking from one side the man wasn't right to leave the family, but the author was trying to say that he wasn't happy with his wife, but all people have the right to be happy. I asked myself what it is "to be happy". He said that he didn't love his wife. I asked what love was.

There are so many husbands and wives leave their spouses in order to find the happiness. I don't judge anyone but my heart feels sad when I hear that such things happen in the life.

Yes, the character had the right for happiness. He had the right to make his wife happy. What did he do to make her happy? Nothing. HE DID NOTHING. How could he demand for happiness complaining of circumstances? If he went to that young girl, yeah, he would feel emotions of pleasure thinking that that was true love that he had been looking for the whole life. But in the course of time the emotions would cease, so what that meant, that it was the time to go to find another source of emotions?

Once some man said to me that LOVE WAS A CHIOCE. First I thought that he was so strange to say such a thing about LOVE. But later I understood what those words meant.

God is Love. So if God lives in my heart that means that I have love already, do I need to pray God saying:"Oh, God, please send me love." I guess not. So this is what "love is a choice " about. The choice is about whom to give THE love that is already inside of my heart. And if we made this choice already there is no way back. I can only imagine what would happen if Jesus started to move backwards, where I would be if it wasn't HIS LOVE. He gave His love to me when I hated him making sin. He did it already when I still was the sinner. He had ALL rights to be happy, but he choose to suffer to make me happy. This is what LOVE is about. I am so sure He didn't feel pleasure hanging on the cross, but so much LOVE was there.

And it is THE TRUE LOVE what people talk about so much, but after all they have no idea what it is.

Well, I don't think that LOVE is just pain. After Jesus resurrection He was taken to Heaven to His Father. I am sure that He is happy now, His love isn't over, His love endures forever and it's really thrilling to get to know His true love to me, He is happy because through His love He made me happy.

Well, that is what Love means to me......................

My Sunday School Class

This is my Sunday school group. A large responsibility lied down on my shoulders, I must say. And this responsibility is that I don't have any right on a mistake. I must be perfect, I must be an example to follow. Seems what I can do if I see these kids just for 2 hours per week. But, actually, I do something that influence their life a lot. By what I say, how I behave, how I solve the problems inside the class, how I posses the power to explain whether the kid was right or not, or to praise a good behavior. Sometimes these daily situations touch their hearts more then the Bible story with the Truth that I tell them (which is necesssary without reserve). From one side it seems to be difficult a lot, but with the Lord's help it's so easy to do!!! I'm so thankful to God that He let me to be a witness and to be an instrument in His hands to lead the kids to salvation.