Dear friends,

Have you ever come home from shopping, grocery or otherwise, and just had to tell someone how God has blessed your trip?  Well, that is what I am doing.  The milk and oil I usually buy were on sale, I got a bonus prize with my laundry detergent, and the peaches were cheaper than bazaar prices.  Isn't God good?   Of course, God is good all the time, but sometimes he puts things in our path to open our eyes and say out loud, "Thank you Lord.  You're so good to me." I bet that if we keep our eyes and hearts open, those things will be more evident to us. 

Plans continue for our VBS outreach at the end of the month.  Praise the Lord for a group of young people from Brother Ireland's churches who are coming out to help for a week.  We are looking forward to ministering with them.  The following week the CMO men will be helping and using their new chalk art skills they learned last month at the Beal's house.  I also took that course, and am hoping to have an opportunity to use what I learned at some time in the future.  Continue to pray for open hearts and good weather for those days.  The Bible correspondence course is going well, and I have on my desk at the moment 13 new requests for enrollment into the course. 

As many of you know, my "second family" here in Ukraine, the Bardwells, have been expecting an addition to the family.  A healthy Benaiah David was born June 22, and both mom and baby are doing well.  Of course, I am the proud "aunt", and have been put in charge of keeping the baby book in order. 

I pray each of you are well and enjoying the summer.  I found many of the e-mail addresses I feared I had lost, as I wrote last month. May God bless you as you continue to serve him in the ministry to which He has called you. 

 

Your fellowservant and missionary to Ukraine,

Denise Hutchison