Showing posts with label church. Show all posts
Showing posts with label church. Show all posts

Sunday, October 4, 2009

Autumn in L'viv (and first sermon at Osanna Church)


Well, today was kind of an interesting day. It was my first time preaching at Osanna church, which we now regularly attend in L'viv. Our pastor, Dima, has asked me in church last week if I can preach , and I thought - why not!?:-)

And it turned out really well. I spoke on something the Lord has been putting on my heart for a while, and it is based on the verse from Colossians 2:16-17, that "REALITY IS FOUND IN CHRIST"... Never thought that preaching can be so easy, but again I know that it was a fruit of many people praying for me and mighty work of the Holy Spirit. It was a true blessing to have people come to me after the service saying that it w
as important for them to hear what was said in the sermon. Here's the picture:


Right after the service me and Katya went for a short stroll down the center of L'viv (it was a pleasant sunny autumn day), where we've also taken couple of pictures. We've enjoyed the walk very much and it was a great time to think about, what God has been opening thought the Sunday service and what it means to us. Meanwhile, we were eating cheeseburgers and playing with pigeons...:-) The pictures follow:

Katya's playing with pigeons

Katya's eating her "favorite" cheeseburger

I apologize for so many personal details, but just wanted to share with you a bit of how it feels like to live in L'viv and enjoy this beautiful weather, and through all this - God's creation.

P.S. By the way the UNDIVIDED concert that we did visit last Thursday, was really cool. It was indeed a bit contemporary jazz (as for both of our tastes, especially Katya), but we thoroughly enjoyed the evening. A short video of it will follow later. Stay TUNED!!:-)

Sunday, September 27, 2009

Day of COFFEE in L'viv

Today, was a great day at church. Katya has lead worship and I was helping her (playing guitar, and singing a bit:-) Our pastor Dima was continuing his series of sermons about Spiritual Gifts (today we've talked about evangelism). It was a great food for thought and a reminder about the importance of sharing about Christ with others.

After the church we went downtown and realized that there is some sort of celebration going on (as it often is in L'viv). Turned out this weekend L'viv celebrated the Day of Coffee, so we have got a chance to have some free ESPRESSO sampling and have some freshly backed cake with it... :-) It was really DELICIOUS.

We might go tonight as well, since there's going to be a jazz concert there as well. Uh, seaking about jazz. There a International contemporary music festival "Contrasts" that starts in L'viv this week, and we already have got tickets for a really contemporary jazz band called UNDIVIDED. Will go to listen to them this Thursday.

Hope it is going to be a good one.

Here's Katya's first little speech on the pages of this blog: