Christmas in Mississippi...

We've celebrated Christmas at Pinelake church at Starkville, MS

This year we got to celebrate Christmas in America for the first time together as a family (me and Katya) . And it is now NOT a cold and snowy Maine (which would be usuall for us), but rather warm and sunny Mississippi!:-) We were invited to the States by a good friend of ours Chuck, whom we've met at Passion conference in Atlanta back in 2010... eversince, we've become really good friends and we've visited Chuck in US before and he came to visit us in L'viv Ukraine. One other reason we've came to the States is to participate in Passion 2012 conference in Atlanta, Georgia. We are looking forward to that VERY MUCH, cause this year we will be volunteering. Here are some pictures from our trip for now:

Celebrating Christmas with Lovorn's family

Wednesday student group: 9 people - good discussions.

This Wednesday, we had nine people at the group. Turned out that one of the new students couldn't come, even though those two guys were one of the major reasons for us to do the group this particular day... however some other people called me and asked if the group is happening, because they wanted to come. So, it was a good thing that we've had the group. It seems like the Lord is adding more and more new people.

Most importantly - we had a very good Bible study. We've talked about "Why Christ came into this world?" and the discussion spurred a whole lot of very interesting questions, including one unbelieving girl giving her version of "how do I get to Heaven?". It was GREAT to see, how, in the process of reading the Word of God people get to their own conclusions, on such important question.

This time we also had short time when we sang praise and worship songs and we plan to continue this in the future, even thought couple of people mentioned that they really want more of the Bible study time and discussion. Well, we decided to make the singing time short.

So, that's how the group went and we're excited now to see how it will be next week, and even more, how the groups will go after quarantine is over. THANK'S everyone for your PRAYERS. Please, keep praying.

P.S. Apologies for the fact that last four posts are "pictureless" - our camera broke down and we haven't fixed it yet. I promise to try to post some pictures later, so you can see a more visible account of what's happening in our life:-)