Saturday, March 28, 2009
This is a quick update to share the latest. As I had mentioned previously, as a co-leader to the Oct 2008 World Race squad I have the chance to visit them throughout there year to check in and help with their periodic debrief times. Well the squad has come up on their mid-point of their 11 month journey. They are just finishing up their time in India and will be arriving in Kiev, Ukraine over the weekend.
As part of my responsibilities, I get to travel ahead and meet them here. Have I mentioned that I love what I do? Gosh, God is good!
I am here following up on several of the logistical details that have been coordinated and arranged for the next three months of ministry. It also gives me a chance to check in on how the squad is doing and do some of the logistics for them over this next week and a half so that the team can take a bit of a rest time.
They have been ministering for just over 5 months now and are about to get introduced to yet another culture and environment. This is a first for me and the World Race. This is the first time we have actually sent teams in to Eastern Europe. We are excited to see what the Lord is doing and how we get to partner in those great things.
I have been here for literally two days and am surprised to see how two worlds literally converge in a place such as this. On one side their is what seems to be a first world environment growing with all the material fashions we are used to in the states and yet turn your head and you can still see the struggles many people face in this post communistic society. The struggles seem to be far from over as a world of two very different ideologies converge. A younger generation seeks out independence an freedom of expression (clearly seen in the fashion forwardness of the younger population) and the older generation cling to years of structured instructions on how to live. Both have their goods and bads. Yet both seem to be operating at the same time struggling to become the dominant thought of the day.
I look forward to learning more even if my time here is short. Please join me in prayer for the people of Ukraine and that regardless of political and social paradigms, the Truth of our God will make itself known amongst the nations of Eastern Europe. Please pray for the teams as they make this transition.
Blessings
Jake
