I want to back up a little from my last depressing little blog (I am doing much better now-thank you all for your prayers!!!) 
June 15th here in Poltava we had our first team for the summer arrive from Florida. Our days were filled with going to camps and shelters. Most days I left my house at 7:30am and didn’t return till 9pm or so. Busy, but very fruitful. On June 25th our first team left and our second team arrived. We had much of the same sort of schedule as the first team. But with the second team I believe we were all used to the “groove” by that time and were working as an oiled machine instead of clanking our wheels and getting no where. Praise God during the time both teams were here, no one became ill or seriously injured. After the second team left, everyone crashed and recovered for about three days or so!!! I think I might still be sleep deprived..can’t seem to get enough sleep!!
With the second team, the Lord did incredible things…we were going to one camp where the orphans are (orphans are sent to camps each summer, for the fresh air-some orphans go to foster families in different countries-most go to camps-they love it!)This orphanage was a 2 hour drive from Poltava. When we arrived-the orphanage was quarantined with either chicken pox or mumps (it was debated for some time the translation of what the children were quarantined with). The quarantine was only installed that morning so it was impossible for the director to call and cancel…at the camp were health officals etc. If we had gone the day before, some of us may have contracted this disease (one of our translators has a 1 year old boy, and is pregnant with her second child). Although many Americans have had chicken pox, some of us (me included) have not, and although Americans are vaccinated for mumps, Ukrainians are not…the Lord intervened…
The last day the second team was here was a day of miracles-we went to the psychiatric hospital where many children go who are from troubled homes (drugs, alcohol, abuse)or children who are sent to this hospital because they are troublemakers at the orphanages [I don't know if you remember that I used to go there and minister, this is a place that has been on my heart since I was no longer able to go]-(sent there to be punished-it’s a stigma to go to the psychiatric hospital)-some of the children have obvious mental problems, others are not so obvious-but these are children who need the love of Christ just as much as any other child-some of them know us from last year and the years when my former Pastor and wife who are in Israel now went there to minister, we recognize them, they recognize us, but the miracle of today is…a few of the children accepted Jesus as their Saviour!!!!! Pray for two boys who came up at the end and wanted to know how they two could be saved-the conversation had to be ended suddenly as they are on a very regimented schedule and it was time to eat…God knows about these two boys…my prayer also is that Poltava church would continue to go to this hospital on a regular basis…
This last team was such a HUGE blessing for us…the way we served alongside each other, and the gospel was shared to many many many children at camps, the psychiatric hospital, in the local neighborhoods…Praise God!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Finally, most of you know that I am moving to Boryadanka, (pronounced Bore yah dahn kah). It is only a city of 4,000 so apartments are hard to find. At this moment there are many of us looking for an apartment at the same time. Myself, my Pastor and wife there in Boryadanka, and Sasha, who is coming to do the youth group. For the last month, some of the ladies in Boryadanka have been asking around and looking at advertisements for apartments for me. But, that could take a while in a town of 4,000 with other people on the team also looking for an apartment. So I have decided to go with a realtor (apartment finder). I will have to pay a “finders fee” but I figured that into my moving budget so I think I should be fine. Please pray (I will be leaving probably sometime after Tuesday next week), that I can find one, that I will listen to the Lord’s leading on which apartment to choose, and that all the financial details will work out. I won’t return to Poltava until I have found an apartment. But between now and the time I leave, I would like to have the apartment 90% packed (right now it is 75%),therefore when I do return, the actual leaving won’t be as rushed. I will post again when I return. Thanks for your prayers. And as always, keep listening for the sound of Angel wings…you never know when you might be visited by an Angel 
Temps are above 100F almost every day. I was told that the reason we have this hot temperature is that our winds are currently from Africa. Hmmmm… Oh well, I don’t mind it, except for when I need to go to the market and by the time I get ΒΌ of the way down my neighborhood street sweat is already dripping down my back. 
It is supposed to be hot for the rest of the month-or so I am told by Ukrainians. Isn’t it time to go to the sea yet? 
