Missions Book List

The following is a suggested list of excellent books that will help you to learn more about missions – the need, the burden, the lifestyle, and the ministry. Check with your local bookstore – they can order them for you…

Christian ethics taught in Ukraine's public schools

[video no longer available] I’ve used here the higher quality embedded video from Current TV . If you haven’t seen Current, it’s a cable TV channel that uses mainly viewer created content — short pieces about almost everything. The way…

Richard Dawkins and PZ Myers expelled from EXPELLED?

I’ve been following the atheist blogosphere reaction to the movie EXPELLED closely. Last night, PZ Myers and Richard Dawkins tried to enter an advance screening. Myers was asked to leave by security and rushed out gleefully to blog about…

Ben Stein’s Expelled: A Movie Review

Yesterday, I went to the movie theater in Orlando’s Downtown Disney, about seven miles from my home, to see an advance screening of Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed with Ben Stein. The film opens on 1000 screens in a limited release…

Mission to Ukraine 7/23/2007 - The Flight Home

At the airport, Alexei wanted to take a picture of both of us because he guessed we might never see each other again. I had said I probably wouldn’t come back to Ukraine next year or maybe for a few…

Mission to Ukraine 7/22/2007 - Last Day in Kiev

I slept very late and then we ate blini (Ukrainian pancakes) with black currant jam from berries grown in the garden. I walked out into the garden and admired the job I did last week in the vineyard rows. The…

Mission to Ukraine 7/21/2007- Kreshchatik, Kiev

Mission to Ukraine 7/21/2007- Kreshchatik, Kiev Click play to connect to youtube Vita wanted to go to the new mall in the afternoon so we drove to Kreshchatik and I spent some hours in this new mall. I bought…

Mission to Ukraine 7/20/2007 - World War Two Memorial, Kiev

Mission to Ukraine 7/20/2007 - World War Two Memorial, Kiev Click play to connect to youtube Here is the second part of 7/20/2007 excursion in Kiev. This is the World War Two Memorial, but in the former USSR they…

Mission to Ukraine 7/20/2007 - Monastery of the Caves

Mission to Ukraine 7/20/2007 - Monastery of the Caves Click play to connect to youtube I mailed two boxes of Why Creeds and Confessions? books – 80 copies – to Rivne and Ivano-Frankivsk. I was excited that I was…

Mission to Ukraine 7/19/2007

I felt well enough by evening to take a trip with Alexei and Vita to Gydro-Park. Vita went swimming at about 11 pm. I did not. I love the Dnieper River in the summer time, but I didn’t feel well…