Ready to Go to Eastern Europe

The preparations for the trip to the Ukraine are well underway. Gwen and I are leaving and Sue and Jen will be up here keeping the place running, serving groups etc. Grandma will be keeping everyone in order, Mike will be to-ing and fro-ing and emailing updates, Ron will be keeping an eye on everything and Doug and Dorothea will help out as well. Our prayer team and Board will be supporting us in prayer. Guests at Linwood House Ministries house will have the usual treatment. This is what teamwork is all about – the seamless transitions, working together and keeping community.

We have had 5 days with ministry friends from Budapest. Several years ago we spent time with them on our way back from Bulgaria. They have given us many insights into the climate of the Church in Ukraine and this information will help us to be sensitive while we are there. The meal table has been the venue for great dialogue on where we are, where we are going, and unfolding the issue of men and women working together equally in ministry.

Our friend L from downtown eastside Vancouver is in a safe place working on getting into detox. She phones regularly, making sure we are ready to go and already anticipating our return home. She continues to work in her brokenness, making choices toward healing and wholeness. Our team travels to Eastern Europe with each one of us going in our brokenness, stumbling toward wholeness, and letting God use us as we are, where we are, to connect with the women in Kiev, Simferopol, Kerch, Yalta and Sevestapol. Abba doesn’t call us to be followers and sharers as being “put together”. No we are called to come as we are, be vulnerable and open, and keep following those “red letter” words, as Mike often reminds us at The Whatever.

Mike will stop in here while we are away and leave you with some thoughts and tidbits of our journeying.

Stop by and leave us your thoughts here.