God is faithful, camp was fullfilling.

The first picture is of worship, second skit watching, third English class, church plant pastor Ruslan on the left, fifth get to know you games.

We arrived back the morning of Aug. 12th after an all night train trip from Odessa to Liviv. We arrived at 5:30 in the morning.

Trish and Leah traveled from Odessa to Kiev with Heather Miller to catch their flight back to the States on Tue. the 14th.

The first two -three days at camp were rough with the time change, "travelers revenge", and coming to terms with the sanitation of the camp bathrooms and kitchens. Trish said that Mexico was an upgrade. Tim said that other teams that have come in don't stay at the same camp as the campers, so the leaders were surprised that we were staying with them and didn't expect special treatment.

The camp improved as we put our focus on building relationships, worshiping God , and praying for the Holy spirit to work in the campers lives. He did just that . Five people accepted Christ during the last three days of camp . Many hearts were moved closer to repentance and many people heard the gospel and had to make a decision on what to do with God.

The food was bland , boring, tasteless, and bad. The good news is that I (Bruce) lost 5 kilos -11lbs. Missions and weight loss, maybe there is a marketing concept in there?

Even though camp was officially over, God was not done working on hearts of the Ukrainian people. All night long on the train the new church plant pastor, Ruslan, answered questions from the people who had choosen to leave the camp and go drink and party. The camp leavers had met us at the train in Odesa to return home. They accused us of manipulating them and taking the girls from them. They also said that Chris was trying to hypnotize them with her testimony because she read it, and didn't look like she had had a challenging life. They said that Bruce must be a politician since American politicians always talk about religion. Ruslan was asked how much we were getting paid for coming to the camp.

We will share more on Sept. 2 at missions night. See you then.