ART Improve 2012 conference: new experience

This November we had a chance to partisipate in planning and organizing of Art Improve 2012 - a first conference in Ukraine for Christians of creative professions: artists, musician and actors. Both myself and Katya have always been interested to encourage and work with people of creative backgrounds and this time we've had a chance to unite our efforts with CCX Ukraine (part of IFES) and Ukrainian Evangelical Theological Seminary.

The conference was an experiment and in the very beginnig I was just going to help in the area of web-site creation (blog, ro be more precise) and Internet advertising. Then, unexpectedly it has grown into an involvement of both of us, of about 30-40 hours per week and Katya becoming the director of the conference :-) Well, it was quite a ride, I have to tell you!! :-)

Vacation in Montenegro

In Dubrovnik, Croatia, during our vacation in Montenegro 

Ok, from the very beginning this blog entry name should have sounded as "Summer vacation in Italy". It was up to the point until Katya didn't get her visa (since Italian Embassy is a strange place:-) just 4 days before our flight from Kyiv... and we had to cancel our trip to Italy.

Good thing is that (even though in past 2,5 years Ukraine is getting more and more isolated internationally, which is no surpries with our current President) there are still some countries where Ukrainians can travel without a VISA. One of them is Montenegro, where some of our friends have been already and recommended us to go. So we decided... why not?

Passion 2012: Volunteer experience

So, this year, again, by the grace of God and generous help of one of our very good friends in the States we were able to attend Passion 2012 conference in Atlanta. It was an answer to our prayers and prayers of many friends in Ukraine, the States and around the world. In this post I wanted to write a bit more about the conference and what we've experiences there.

More about trip to Mississippi/Passion 2012

Wanted to share with you some videos we've filmed while going to US to visit Chuck (in his home in Mississippi) and then Passion 2012 conference in Atlanta.

Video interview on the way to U.S. in Amsterdam airport (Schipol):