Thursday, March 27, 2008

Tibet, Life and Other Random Things

Thanks again Rachel, for letting me use your blog.

Some have been interested in what is going on in Tibet ect. Since Olympics are being held in China this year they are seeing this as a platform to get the 'freedom' they want. Protests are happening all over the world, including here. They are peaceful, yet the Chinese government wants them to put to an end quickly so they are charged with batons or whatever you call them ready to hit an demonstrator who can get on the end of it.

Life is grand, have found a wonderful church here! Makes a HUGE difference. Am helping plan a VBS they will have for three days. Should be exciting and am very happy to be serving the local church here. Actually brings a taste of home to my life, except everything is in a different language and a smaller scale. 30ish people attending services each Saturday.

Power outages are still a huge part of life. Frustrating but am used to it now and have come up with a schedule that allows me to make the most out of my time... always a good feeling.

I've become addicted if you will to Prison Break. I've seen the first two seasons.

Pray for me as I'm pretty sure that shortly I'll be gaining a lot of responsibility here as if finances isn't enough. Haha. It will be good though and cause me to run to Christ even more which is never bad.

Well, I'll bring this to a close as I've got nothing interesting to say. I'll try to update more often, which should be doable.

Ah yes, one other thing... we too celebrated Easter last Sunday. We aren't strange like Ukrainians. Met at the church at 6am for a short sermon and singing and then joined thousands of Christians marching together to the center of town where a big rally was held celebrating our risen Lord! It is so evident to see the joy of the Lord on the faces of believers here. Good times indeed.

Yours truly,
AnnaP

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

WOW! That last paragraph is so encouraging! How cool to rejoice with other believers in a public walk to the center of town! Oh, if only American Christians could do the same!
And we WANT to hear what is happening-don't ever think it is not interesting to us. You are living a life much different from the rest of us:-) Yet on the same struggle-wrestling with our sinful selves, the sinful world, bringing His good news to the world, and glorifying Him!A tall order!

Sue said...

to use an overused but apt word--Awesome! Thanks, Rach, for letting Annap check in here. i love hearing what's up...

ukrainiac said...

Anna...please don't think you have nothing interesting to say! I may just link your posts here to my blog, if that's permissible with the rules there...what do you think?

LOVE hearing what's happening. Tell me more about the church...and VBS? What fun!

Love you.


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