SURPRISE SASHA No 1.
The day started fantastically - a breakfast skype, with our great friend Sasha Domuschi from America. Many of you will know that Sasha was the first builder we worked with as work on transition house got going. We are praying that soon Sasha will be able to return to his homeland, but in the meantime skype is an amazing privilege, and our conversation flowed just as if he was sharing breakfast with us. The phone got passed around all the team along with the corn flakes. I told him that transition house is looking fantastic, he would be very pleased. However there is one big issue ... he is not with us and we miss him. Please pray for Sasha, a faithful brother and friend.
SURPRISE SASHA no2
The day then got even better with Sasha Logvinenko coming to spend the day with us and work as part of our team at Transition House. Sasha was living at transition house when we first came, and our friendship has deepened over the years. Now married he is a great testimony to the care of Pieter,Lydia and great evidence of how transition house can be of such massive help. Sasha is a great musician and bass player, with a passion to see young people come to know Jesus Christ. We listened to his latest band recrding as we put up a wall together, it was very impressive. He has kindly agreed to do a one off interview for the blog, which will feature on our return. As you can see from the photo, Sasha dwarfs all of us, his height is useful on any job or basjetball team.
Surprise no3/
What do you do when you are not as tall as Sasha L and you want to put up a ceiling. Well in Ukraine the answer is simple...make a platform out of wooden crates. One thing I really love about the guys here is their resourcefullness. Igor constructed for us with the mother of all wooden platforms. It has more cross braces than the Eifel tower, is as strong as it is high, and is likely to be our new close friend throughout this week.Beleieve it or not, tomorrow is yet another public holdiay in Ukraine, so we have been invited to join the children at the camp. This will mean we have to work like trojans at the end of the week to complete all that we planned to do, but with God's help we hope this is still possible, Please pray that we can encourage the children tomorrow, and that our time together will be hugely beneficial to all. Some of our time if not all are feeling rather achey for all the games we anticipate at the camp. In the meantime, we wish all your muscles a happy rest time, without looking at another ladder, metal snip, platform, driver, pliers, osb board or hammer drill for at least.....oooooh good few hours.
Goodnight
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