Lela Steel, Dad, Yuri, Mom and Viktor, Lela's driver. Notice the "Husker" logo on Viktor's sweater! Yes, the influence of Big Red extends all around the world.
After an exciting day yesterday, today, was a bit more relaxed and low key. Renee ran her first errand on her own this morning. She walked to the travel agent to book airline tickets for a trip to Kiev. We have an appointment at noon this Friday at the Embassy in Kiev to update our fingerprints. We will depart bright and early on "South" airlines and return same evening.
We arrived at the Internot at 2 p.m. to meet Yuri and Lela Steel for lunch. We drove to "Express Sandwich" a short distance away. Yuri is one of "Lela's kids". She has known him since he was very young. Lela came to Ukraine in the early 90's on short term mission project and basically never left. She has a big home in Odessa and lives here most of the year. For the last dozen years or so, Lela has been pouring her heart and soul into the children of the Internots. Loving them. Praying for them. Improving their living environment.
Today, we were able to check Yuri out for the next couple days. Yuri will stay over night with us in our apartment Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. As part of her facilitation, Nataliya offered to tutor Yuri in English. They had their first lesson sitting in the kitchen of our apartment. As I write this, Yuri is sitting next to me on the couch proof reading my post. His English is good enough to catch my spelling errors!
Prayer Request - For Yuri, Renee and I as%
1 comment:
It's good to see Lela and Viktor again! Please say "hi" from us if you happen to meet with them again. Viktor was such a blessing to us and I don't think we could have made it as long as we did with out him: )
It's also neat to see he still likes to wear his Nebraska pullover we got him.
We are continuing to pray for you guys and your family. Keep focused on Him!
Post a Comment