Sunday in Kiev

It is Sunday evening we are at the coffee shop using the Internet for a while. Very yummy vanilla coffee's with cool heart and leaf designs in the cream Love it!

Everything went well on the flights over, we definitely recommend the Dusseldorf route rather than Frankfurt. Our flight was less than a third full, so many empty seat that anyone who wanted to could take a row and lay down to sleep or stretch their legs. The pilot mentions this in his announcement telling it is good for you bad for Lufthansa. :)

Karen has been an awesome host for us we are so grateful for opening up her home to us. Thank you to all that have helped her with this new hospitality ministry. It is such a blessing to be with a sister in Christ who knows the city and can show us some new tricks. We had our first experience on the Metro, it seems fairly easy and a inexpensive way to get around. I did nearly take out the elderly couple sitting at the end when we took off and I went flying back, but as always my favorite hero was there and pulled me back just in time, he is Awesome you know and there is no charge for awesome!

Another first for us was going to church here in Ukraine. Karen's church family is wonderful. The worship and message was amazing, and they have a mid way through service coffee break. I personally think that is a super fun idea especially for us jet lacked travelers. Karen's uncle is a very passionate person, on fire for God and the love for orphans. He shared the news of the miracle God did for the Pecks, and you know he could hardly keep his feet on the ground when we were talking after the service. You get this man speaking about orphans, adoption and God's plan and oh my, Matt and I truly thought he was going to start dancing, he was soo excited! The whole experience was so upliftings and refreshing a wish we could find an English speaking Church to attend in Izmail each week.

During the service they had all the little kids come up front and show the bibles they purchased with the money they had raised. They will deliver these Russian bibles to kids in orphanages, what a gift. Also there was a young couple who were dedicating their new born son, he was beautiful.

We met Valentin at the apartment after church and got our other suitcase back from him. We gave him the Matthews & Greens documents, so he would be able to start work on them straight away.

We then went to the "cafeteria" restaurant with Karen and one of her friends Elisha from church. I love that place I can see what I am getting and they have awesome borscht and the Ukrainian salad that I used to eat here, it was very good. We had a really great conversation during lunch. Elisha is a music teacher here in Kiev at one of the International schools. She is a sweet girl, we talked about many different topics including marriage and communication. Matt gave both her and Karen the "Don't marry the wrong person" talk, Always the Dad!

I talked to Oksana & Vlad twice both are very excited, but the phone she was using was having major static issues so conversations have been cut short.

We will have our SDA appointment tomorrow at 10am and be on the train to Odessa at 10pm on Tuesday if all goes well this time at the appointment. Valentine says that we will be in Odessa by 6am then we will drive to Izmail and get an early meeting with the kids and start the documents.