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We Need a Little Christmas, Now (December 2014 Update)

Posted in Jim Ehrhard, Uncategorized on December 30, 2014|

We Need a Little Christmas, Now (December 2014 Update)

Ukraine does not celebrate Christmas until January 6th.  Usually trees and Christmas decorations do not go up until around December 25th.  But we decided to start ours early.  Following the US tradition, we put away fall decorations and brought out our Christmas decorations the day after Thanksgiving.  We also began to play Christmas music pretty much around the clock.  We bought our first Christmas tree in Ukraine and had a great time decorating it and the rest of the house.  We are having Advent devotions with our Advent Wreath.  Why?  Because we need a little Christmas! 
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We Know Not What to Do … Our Eyes are on You! (April Update)

Posted in Jim Ehrhard, Uncategorized, tagged , , , on March 15, 2014|

Pray for UkraineWe Know Not What to Do … Our Eyes are on You! (April Update)

Amazing things have happened in Ukraine since our last update – both good and bad!  To begin with, the revolution in Ukraine made an amazing, maybe even miraculous, turn around the day after we sent out our last update.  Then I told you about the brave Ukrainians who had been surrounded by the government forces and seemed to be on the verge of being overrun at any moment.  The government had closed the metro and all roads coming into Kiev and had placed sandbags and military vehicles and machine guns at the roadblocks.  More and more Special Forces were being brought into Kiev coming off buses with automatic weapons and with the permission to use them.  The protesters were surrounded on three sides by the government forces.  Things seemed pretty hopeless for the anti-government forces. (more…)

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The Crisis in Ukraine (February 2014 Update)

Posted in Jim Ehrhard, Uncategorized, tagged , , , , on February 1, 2014|

The Crisis in Ukraine (February 2014 Update)

The Crisis in Ukraine began at the end of November 2013.  Then the president suddenly changed his mind and dropped our Tear for Ukraineagreement to enter the European Union and began to pursue money from Russia (Russia had been pressuring Ukraine by long delays from Ukrainian exports at the borders).  Thousands of people came to protest this decision and the government responded with harsh violence against unarmed protesters.  This brought more people into the streets – nearly 1 million for one protest.  People stayed in the main square protesting around the clock for the entire month of December in below freezing temperatures! (more…)

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“Rushin’ to Russian!” (October 2013 Update)

Posted in Jim Ehrhard, Uncategorized, tagged , , on September 29, 2013|

“Rushin’ to Russian!” (October 2013 Update)In=Yaz

Life has been very busy for me this past month.  In September, I taught a class on Christology.  I also decided to take a university class in Russian at Kiev National Linguistic University.  While I was told the class would begin September 16th  (the week after the Christology class was over), like many things in Ukraine, I found out it would begin on the 9th (the day my Christology class began).  So I would teach class for 4 hours in the morning, leave immediately after class to ride the metro for an hour to get to at least part of the Russian class.  I was able to catch about 15-20 minutes of class, get my homework for the next day then head back to the metro (another hour) so I could get home to prepare for teaching the next day!  It was a wild week, but I survived – I definitely did not want to fall behind on the class.  (more…)

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“Ready, Set, Go!” (September 2013 Update)

Posted in Jim Ehrhard, Ministry Updates on September 3, 2013|

Well…at least the “Go” part is accurate!  I’m not sure we are really “ready” or “set” for the new school year, but it’s here!  So, maybe a better title would be, “ready or not, here I come!”

Our first week back was a whirlwind.  We began with 3 days of training in our faculty In-Service followed by the first week of classes.  The second weekend, we had an all-day planning meeting (9 am to 8 pm!)
2013.08.22 KTS In Servicewith our church.  Needless to say, we have a lot happening already—and we have a lot of decisions to make regarding ministries in the coming year.  Be praying for us as we consider what the Lord would have us to do. (more…)

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