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Friday, August 13, 2010
Greeting Cards and Farewells
12:02 PM | Posted by
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Tonight was the last night of the cooking and crafts exchange in Ufa. The activities were cookies and greeting cards.
Linda and Gayle showing the women the art of handmade greeting cards.
The ladies had a great time decorating their cards.
Patti sharing about Christmas cookie exchanges and telling the women a little about the true meaning of Christmas.
The Mt. Olivet ladies sang to the women as part of their farewell activities.
They also gave each of the girls a handmade paper shoe with candy in it.
Tonight was also a night of goodbyes for one of our regular translators. Polina is leaving Ufa in order to get a doctoral degree at the University of Miami Ohio. She has been a big help to the Americans in Ufa in countless ways and we are all going to miss seeing our friend.
Tara (right) leading a prayer for Polina (left) as Anya (middle) puts her arm around her friend.
We are very thankful for all these Ladies from Mt. Olivet have done this week. It is not easy coming ten time zones and ministering effectively. The women that participated really enjoyed the experiences they had this week and relationships were built that will hopefully last long past this week. What these ladies have shown is that you can come to Ufa and minister to the people here if you are creative. A lot of traditional mass evangelism techniques are not feasible, but it doesn't mean the people are unreachable. If a believer is willing to start building a relationship from the ground up, then they will often get chances to be an incarnate witness to someone they genuinely care about. This is the sort of thing that has been effective in Ufa. If you have been reading the accounts of these ladies from Mt. Olivet and the team from Centreville, you have seen two good examples of how a short term team can minister here. You have seen that our American culture and English language can be used to build relationships between Americans and Russians and between local believers and non-believers.
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