It's Official!!!

The votes are in and it is officially official! I am indeed the worlds WORST blogger! :P There's just so much to do and with limited internet time, blogging is not always high on my list! Sorry :/

Pictures will have to wait untill we get home (although I might be able to post 1 or 2). The connection here is so slow it takes forever to upload and we only have one computer to get online with and 3 users, so my time here is very limited!

Anyways....catch up....
LAST week we did indeed get all the joints taped, the texture sprayed, and the walls and ceiling painted in all of the appartment except for the bedrooms and master bath. Those will be done (Lord willing!) by tomorrow or Thursday. Since we have 5 people here working, only two are on that particular project now. Dan is bouncing between tasks, and Jordan and I have our own  project this week. Finishing the church pews!

They had the benches all put together and have been using them for some time now, but we are working on putting the finishing touches on them....which is QUITE a task! We have taken all of the benches apart and are currently working on rounding off the sharp edges with my new favorite power tool, the router (I think thats how you spell it :P Its in Ukrainian on the package, so I'm just guessing!), after which we use the belt sander and the orbital sander (My "man language" vocabulary is expanding! :D)! I'm having fun with this process, but it is very hard on my back, leaning over a table all day!
Anyways, we are still working on getting power to the building, but we did get running water hooked up today :) Thats pretty exciting for us :)

In other news, we bought a couple bikes last week to get us around while we're here. After we leave we will give them to Volodia and Luda, the couple living in the Annex. I think it will be a nice gift for them :)

ALSO, the cold snap seems to be over! Its been in the 40's and 50's for the last week! Very nice compared to -10! :)

Prayer wise, Tanya is back in the hospital. This time she is in Kiev. The hospital here in Barishivka set her arm wrong, so they have to rebreak it and then set it properly. She is pretty discouraged!
Also, the previous pastor, Vascilli (he resigned to take care of his family), has broken his leg pretty seriously. He is also in the hospital in Kiev.
Which brings me to my NEXT prayer request, the church here could greatly use some prayer! They are really struggling with legalism here (and I think thats a common theme in Russia and Ukraine). A lot of people are stuck on things like women wearing scarves to cover there hair in church, not wearing makeup, and silly things like that. They are also dealing with doctorine issues, fighting about eternal security vs. losing your salvation in specific. The Russian Orthodox church believes in losing your salvation (I happen to be on the OTHER side of the fence) and it flows over into the other churches. Part of the reason Vascilli left was because one of his children died and some church members said it was because he preaches eternal security and are saying that is the reason he has broken his leg as well. I don't care which side of the issue you're on, that is just wrong! And it has driven his wife away from church. Things like this are really tearing apart the church here. There's so much gossip being passed around and arguments over this and that. So ALL THAT TO SAY....please pray for the church here! They're working on appointing a pastor, so hopefully that will unite them and get them going in positive direction!

Thanks so much for your support!

For Christ and His glory,
Lindsey Kae