Attention: Budding photojournalists
World Next Door is looking for interns to travel to Ukraine next summer to photograph and blog about various ministries in Ukraine. The main connection will be with Mission to Ukraine in Zhitomyr. This looks like a fabulous opportunity for anyone who loves travel, missions and photography. So, hopefully Harrs and Huntingtons will see this post. Not to mention Lena and Stepasha. Not sure how this would work for nationals! Contact World Next Door for more information about this internship. And/or contact me for more informatio

No hospital visitors
Okay, this flu-panic quarantine has just hit a little too close to home. No worries — Jim and I are fine. BUT, I was not allowed to visit my little orphan friends at the hospital today. I am so thankful that Kristoslava is still able to be in the room with these precious ones. The six-month-old little boy has been there for several weeks now, but a new patient was admitted a couple of days ago. Less than a week old. Left by the mama. Pray for patients admitted to any of the hospitals! No visitors can cause very lonely days. And also pray that this quarantine might be lifted before the guesstimated three weeks.

Cheapest flights
I have such respect for travel agents, and others who have the patience to search out the best possible flights from one place to another. I am going a little nuts as I try to find the cheapest way from Kyiv to Alborg Airport in Denmark. Part of our problem is that we have no flexibility in dates — we need to be there on Monday January 4 and we need to be on our way out on Saturday January 9. Ukraine has this wonderful discount airlines here (wizzair) that flies into London and Oslo (among other cities in Europe). We were hoping to fly at least one of the legs on this airline. Then I found flights from Oslo to Alborg. None from the London Luton airport to Alb

Biblical counseling resources
Just received notice of an incredible book sale: the CCEF Library of Classics. Jim and I have read the vast majority of these books (I think all but two) and heartily recommend them to anyone looking for a biblical perspective on everyday challenges. We personally own two of each of the books that we’ve read so that we can always have one here for quick reference, and so that we can also loan them to others. We’re talking half price. Order a set for yourself. Additional sets to loan. But order them now…the sale is only this week!

Zechariah
Jim and I recently began to read Calvin’s Bible Commentary on the book of Zechariah as translated by John King and published by Forgotten Books. Some of you may recall that we are praying about opening a home for orphans who are HIV+ and our working name for the home is Zechariah’s House. Zechariah means the Lord remembers, and we know that He has not forgotten these precious children. Jim and I look forward to digging deeper into this book. Pray for us as we peer more closely at God’s Word. That the Spirit might enlighten our minds to understand what we are reading. That we might be changed so that we, in turn, might be change agents.