HungryForLifeInternational

We woke up to a cloudy day in our beautiful guest house. God has blessed us with a lovely home complete with proper toilets, showers, and comfortable beds. We definitely enjoy coming back to relax at night. Our meals are home cooked and very yummy. Today the men went back to the rehabilitation center to help with more clean up. Lots of clean up and garbage was removed. The men at the center were very grateful for our help. Our men were rewarded through this gratefulness and seeing their accomplishments in front of their eyes. No snakes appeared however John, the pastor who lives in the guest house, is concerned that snakes won't have a home anymore.:)

While the men were at the center the ladies were hard at work at the guest house. We sorted all the food and started filling the food hamper bags. The food hampers consisted of: 2kg of each flour, sugar, buckwheat, rice, and 2l oil, 2 tins of fish, 1 tin of condensed milk, 2 packages of pasta, 1 box of each tea, cookies, and candy. We put together 130 food hampers.In addition to the food hamper the women finished filling the hygiene hampers. These hampers included 3 rolls toilet paper, dish soap, shampoo, scrub sponges, bar soap, scrubbing cleaner, and laundry soap. In total 130 hygiene hampers were filled.These food hampers and hygiene hampers will be distributed tomorrow (Sunday) at the 2 churches we will be having banquets at.

Some of us were working hard :)

After lunch most team members went on a tour of Nikipol. They visited Pastor John's church. The team was blessed by Peter (Mary's brother, our driver) playing the piano and singing hymns with Pastor John in Ukrainian at the church.

Another stop was at the cemetery and nuclear reactor site. Did you know that 10 to 12 people in Nikipol die each day mostly from alcohol and cancer. For more interesting events that happened on the tour ask your team members when they return.

During our delicious chicken dinner we had a visit from Pastor Nickolay who is the pastor at the second Baptist Church in Nikipol. He shared his testimony and we had an opportunity to talk with him. He asked us to pray for safety of him and his church as they face some challenges within the community. We thank you for following along on our journey. We ask you to continue to pray for our health and safety as we travel tomorrow. Please pray that the people will see Jesus through us and want to know more.

P.S. Mary and Marg lost their voices do to high pollution and dust, though Mary's brothers think she lost hers cause she talks too much. Bill doesn't mind to have a quiet wife around either. Regardless Mary and I would like to talk so please pray for our voices. Thank you

Ukraine Chilliwack team