Well, we have just about reached the half way point of our visit to Odessa and work continues steadily on installing doors and frames. We have now installed 10 doors plus frames with 4 are awaiting for us to fit handles, hinges and locks and make the frames. Peter and Bogdan spent some time today doing some more cutting of walls, as this creates a lot of dust we were told to go and have some rest so we took the opportunity to explore the local beach. As you can see the weather has turned quite warm.

The local beach.

Dust cloud from cutting walls.

On Tuesday evening we were invited to have take away pizza with Alex and his family at their apartment. We had a lovely evening with his wife and children, it gave us an insight into the family life of the person who hosts our visits to Odessa. Alex was able to show us photos of the progression of the building work on Transition House over the last 8 years. Its amazing to see how this project has developed, seeing some of  the earlier photos of the adults and children from Grace Baptist church building the main structure of the house, to seeing photos of the very first visit our friends from Gwersyllt Church, Wrexham, to more recent photos showing parts of the house completed. We hope to be able to show some of these photos soon.

Tomorrow we are going back to the Black Sea camp with some of the children from the shelter, again to do some more clearing up of fallen branches and no doubt having the pleasure of one of Peters bbq's.

As we go into next week, we ask you continue to pray for the people of Ukraine during this continuing period of unrest.

John sitting down on the job!

Rob.