Pray & Give - Day 2

Thanks so much to Katy and Kari for giving towards the guitar yesterday! We'd still love to get another $100 to fully reach our guitar goal if you're interested in helping. :) Thank you all for all of the prayers for our camp location issues! Making some more phone calls today and will hopefully know more by tomorrow.

PRAY: ENCOURAGEMENT
Gonna be really honest today and let you guys know how we're feeling here, as the Sumy team. We've all felt recently that we're really coming under spiritual attack. Yesterday morning we were feeling it and had a good prayer time. But despite the extra prayer yesterday was rough. Our little cat fell out of the window [we live on the 10th floor]. She survived and while she's currently still hanging on [with a broken leg and one less tooth] she's not doing great and it adds a lot of emotional stress. Melissa has something that seems to be out in her back. She's been having problems with it for a while now but it seems to get progressively worse every day. The pain is really affecting everything she does, sleep included. There's a lot going on in our families at home which is always hard when you're on the other side of the globe.

Sumy team with 3 of the kids on Roman's birthday - Vova, Melissa, Roman, Anika, Sasha, Annie

Lots of ups and downs here throughout each day. One of our grad girls shared some really hard stuff she's going through. Then we've got Roman's graduation from his trade school tomorrow and we're all really excited for him. Feels like God is really working in the hearts of some of these kids we work closely with, but there is a lot of opposition. Plenty of things we need to get done in these last few days before our team arrives and with everything going on we're having a hard time staying focused, encouraged and productive.

-Pray for extra encouragement for our team here, Annie, Melissa and Anika
-Pray also for the kids we have staying at our apartment right now as the ups and downs are effecting all of us, them included
-Pray for healing in Melissa's back/neck
-Pray that we'd be able to focus and stay productive in our prep for the the plans in these coming, busy weeks

GIVE: WATER HEATER $60

Something kinda like this one

We'll be boiling a lot water for all the tea/coffee/cooking for as many kids and team members as we'll have at camp. And doing it all in a little "hot pot" makes it really hard to keep up with. We're hoping to be able to purchase a big water heater/percolator that does something more like 40 cups as opposed to 4 or 5 like we have now. This is a purchase that's been on our wish list for a while now... So nice to have when we have grad events, or even just when we have couple of kids over at the apartment. It would be a huge help to us to have at camp also because we have to purify the water before we give it to our Americans to drink it. :) If you'd like to give, in part or in total, towards a giant water heater you can donate through PayPal [link on the right].

Thanks again for all of the support and love! We're so thankful to have such a great group of supporters to lean on for prayer, encouragement and pretty much anything else we ask for. You guys are the best.