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In March, we sent an 8-member team to Kolkata, India, to establish deeper ties with our partner, Freeset. You can read about I-10's trip here.

And in July, 7 NHF-ers headed to our sister church in Ukraine, New Hope Church (fortuitously named, don't you think?), for a blessed ten days of fellowship and outreach to NHC's community in the city of Kremenchug. Read more about U-10's time abroad here.

From July 6-17, 2010, seven members of NHF will be in Ukraine for our 4th Annual Reunion with our sister church, New Hope Church, in the city of Kremenchug.

For the first few days, U10 will join members of NHC in local urban ministry, particularly to children & orphans. After Sabbath Worship with NHC, U10 will travel with the church to its annual week-long Summer Camp (Retreat), held in the countryside about 45 minutes outside the city-center. There, U10 will rest and fellowship with NHC brothers & sisters, as well as support NHC's outreach to invited guests -- friends, neighbours and coworkers who are not believer. In past summers, this Camp time has been crucial to deepening friendships across belief-borders. As a result of the affection, community and trust built at Camp, many non-believers have started to attend church and/or joined NHC's Bible study groups. Many friends and neighbours have come to know Jesus Christ as their Saviour, and NHC's ministry continues to expand, grow and flourish.

U10 is humbled & excited to continue to play a part in the growth of God's church in Kremenchug. In addition to pouring into the life of NHC, U10 hopes to come home with a brighter view of the movement of God's Spirit around the world, a deeper understanding of how to love one's friends, neighbours and community, and a stronger inclination to stand for Christ, in faith, power and grace.

Please keep in prayer for U10: Rachel Ahn, Sunny Ahn, Chae An, Julia An, Catherine Cha, Jeremey Houlton, Raimund Strauck (and our honorary team-members on-the-ground in Kremenchug: Sasha Nagaevich & Luda Bodnar).

From March 12-20, 2010, I-10 was on the ground in Kolkata (Calcutta), India. The team spent time with representatives from JVI (Justice Ventures International) and Freeset, met & worked alongside the women of Freeset, and contributed manpower, creative ideas & medical help to the Freeset community. Along the way, they saw, heard & experienced the horrifically indescribable, the heartbreakingly real, the miraculously transformed and the eminently hopeful.

The team is now home to NHF, each member a willing & able storyteller ready to bear witness to the wonder of God's Kingdom-movement in Kolkata -- to speak of oppression & justice, darkness & light, beauty & tragedy, injustice & humility, despair & action. "Freedom" has become real & tangible, no longer a cliche to be couched in quotation marks or an ideal to be hoped-for in vain. We've seen it with our own eyes; future teams to India will be an eyewitness, too.

I-10 (Catherine C., Jennifer C., Christina H., James J., Sharon L., Becca M., Robert N., and honorary member Anna K., from Maryland) is so thankful to the NHF family for your generous financial support, which not only enabled got the team over there & back, but which provided direct & impactul support to the ongoing ministry and effective business of Freeset. Thank you also for your continuous prayers, which buttressed the team when we threatened to wilt and covered us at all times. And now, even in the continuing sadness, confusion, thinking and praying of the I-10 team, we continue to praise our God, He who is sovereign and who has not turned His back on Kolkata or a single precious one there. By His grace, may JVI, Freeset, NHF and many other obedient believers bring the truth & power of Jesus Christ to India, that all may hear and all may believe, and no more would perish.

Check out the I-10 trip at: New Hope for India . . .

11.10p local time (EST): U09 arrived home to a wonderful hullabaloo! A whole gaggle of folks and a beautiful hand-made sign greeted us as we made our way safely & smoothly out of JFK airport this afternoon. We all got safely over to a Korean restaurant in Flushing for dinner, then I presume and pray that everyone is currently home safe and sound, sleeping in their beds. As our team huddled around our collected bags in the baggage claim area before coming out, we prayed and thanked God for the past 10 days, and for carrying us to Ukraine and back safely. Tonight, we are also so thankful for all of you.

There is a lot on our minds & hearts … we hope to get some good rest in the coming days so that when the time is right, we will be alert to the Lord’s loosening of our tongues to speak His blessings to you.

For now, just know that it’s good to be home. We miss NHC like crazy and we all agree that we could have easily and happily stayed there another 3 weeks or so. We are glad to be here with our New Hope, and we’re refreshed to serve Christ alongside each of you.

Thank you for praying for us during our visit with our brothers & sisters in Kremenchuk. We were indeed protected and enclosed under the shadow of God’s hand. We indeed received great blessings, and we believe we were used to bless Ukrainians as well. We indeed grew & strengthened our bonds with the members of NHC. We indeed were grown, stretched and molded more and more into the image of Christ.

All glory, honor and praise unto Him.

U09 team is currently in Kremenchuk, Ukraine. Please check out our blog for update:

(as of July 14, 2009) U09 is officially ONE WEEK away from departure! Next Tuesday, Juy 21, 5 NHF-ers will leave for Ukraine and 10 days of joyous ministry with our sister New Hope Church in Kremenchuk. Training is wrapping up quite well, supplies are almost all prepared and bags are soon going to be packed to the brim. U09 remains so humbly thankful for the support, prayers and encouragement of each person at NHF. Would you please continue to pray for the team:

(as of June 22, 2009) It just doesn't seem real ... even with a successful Bake Sale under our belts (thank you, NHF!) and team support letters mailed out, it is hard to believe that in exactly one month, U09 will be landing in Kiev, Ukraine, and making the drive toward our brothers & sisters in Kremenchug. As in past years, reality will set in when New Hope meets New Hope face to face ...

U09 -- Sunny A., James A., Catherine C., Jeehyun K., and Robert N. -- continues to rely on your prayers during these next 4 weeks. Please pray for:

(As of December 24, 2008): Hello, our beloved sister “New Hope Church”. We are glad that our dear Lord gave us his love and an excellent sense of a continuing celebration of victory in Him. We are glad He gave us YOU, so we can experience those feelings together. We are a great mystery of His love to each other. We congratulate you, our loved ones, with the greatest celebration of our life - the birth of our Savior Jesus Christ: on the earth and in our hearts. We wish to your church more enormous prosperity in His life and bringing Him more and more fruit.

On 18 December took place church membership meeting, where we summed up the whole year. We remembered how God richly blessed our church, saw photographs, and talked about plans for 2009. The meeting took place in a very friendly and inspiring atmosphere. In the end of our meeting we took a general picture and had snacks. We counted 23 blessings that we want to share with you.

1. Celebrating with the whole church of New Year (2008)
2. Baptism - Spring (4 persons)
3. Improvement the ministry «Street People» (team has grown from    4 to 10)
4. Beginning of the project «Feeding»
5. Rehab center - the study of Gospel to John with addicted people, 2 times a week
6. Team «Rush time" - HIV prevention, a work with HIV positive people
7. Multiplication of home groups from 6 to 9
8. Arrival of our friends from New York
9. Camp «Names of God»
10. Camp banquet
11. Baptism - autumn (5 people)
12. A growth in the theater ministry
13. Children's ministry
14. Puppet Theater - participation in Sunday services and orphanages

15. Going of leadership team on the pastoral conference “Hilsong”
16. Ethics in schools (2 teams)
17. Evening of equipment - education for leaders in just 1 month
18. Starting of a family club
19. Sports ministry - every Saturday playing volleyball, attracting non-believers
20. The birth of babies Camille and Mark
21. The start of class on Evangelism «From heart to heart»
22. Summit for pastors of home groups (once a month)
23. Purchase of drums in late December

Objectives for 2009
1. To grow in the knowledge of God through prayer
2. Each member of church has to define his spiritual gift and to serve to the body of Christ
3. Each member of the church could bring to God at least one person
4. To deal more actively with the social structures of the city and to do a great social activity
5. To multiply the number of groups from 9 to 18
6. To focus on Mission
7. To pray that the city would provide the land for the construction of the house of prayer

   On the end of December 2008, there are 76 members of the church .
For the 2008: 1 person is excommunicated, 9 people joined to the church through water baptism, 11 people moved from other churches

     Thank you, we are glad to have you. You are a great joy and encouragement for us. We hope that our relationship will grow and we will be able to serve more to one another in the Lord in 2009.
     With great love in our Lord God!!!

On September 28th, 11.45a, Pastor Sasha and Luba welcomed their third child, a baby boy! Everyone is healthy and strong - praise God for this expansion of our family!

(This is from an email received on Thursday, September 18, 2008, from Sasha Nagaevich [a/k/a, "Sashko"], the youth pastor at NHC. Luba, mentioned in the end of the message, is Pastor Sasha's wife, due to deliver their third child any day now. It is a boy, and they are either going to name him Mark or Edward - yes, after our very own Pastor Edward.)

The autumn has come. All people came back from their vocations and our church is together again. We are all in an inspired mood and looking forward where God is going to lead us further. On September 7, we had a baptism on the area where we had our church camp. Five more sisters were joined to our church. That was an especial time. We spent the whole day together on the open air. In the beginning we conducted a baptism on the riverside and after that we had a service in the cafeteria. That was a time of worshiping, prayer for these who were baptized and we also had a Lord`s supper. The drama group showed a drama that had a name “Auction of a soul”. That was a wonderful time, a lot of joy, happy faces. Knowing those people` lives before repentance and who they are now – that is a huge difference. It was impossible to look on that without tears. We played volleyball and other games together and had a meal. That was a great celebration for the whole church. That was especially joyfully to see on that meeting 15 unbelievers - relatives and friends.

Last week was begun one more home group (now we have 8). The people in the group are those who came to the church after the camp. Sashko is in charge of the group.

October 25, we are planning to start a family club. Also in the beginning of October we are starting to teach a Christian ethics at schools and studying Bible in a local center for alcoholics and drug addicts. That is a state center but we have an access to meet with them. Pray also please for safe Luba`s delivery. Let God help us in that!

It's Thursday night, 11.30p local time (New York). I can't believe I'm here, back in the States. I MISS KREMENCHUK.

It is weird to write this last update, but it just seems appropriate, to finish off the travel part of U08 once and for all.

Wednesday morning, about 25 people from NHC came to our hotel at 7.30a to see us off; so lovely of them, and so wonderful to be captured in love once more before leaving. Again, it was wonderful to be able to say "See you soon," and know that it would definitely be true, and not just a strong wish or possibility. Less tears this time, I think, because we were all carrying the sheer joy of being able to say that we'd see each other next year.

Kiev is beautiful in the summer, albeit hot - especially when you're walking around all day. We were going to cap the evening off with a river-boat ride down the Dnipro River. That was before we discovered it was a DISCO cruise. Rock on ... but no.

Our Kiev hotel plans fell through, so Pastor Sasha's friend hooked us up with some dormitory rooms in the First Baptist Church / Bible College. What lovely rooms (with great water pressure in the shower too!)... and mostly, I was overwhelmed not just by the comfort of the place, but by being able to be hosted by believers, to rest and sleep in a place of faith. It seemed the best way to spend our last night in Ukraine. And I am touched by this church/college (and so many like it around the world) that opens its doors to other believers, as a service of grace and love in Christ.

Our adventures (dare I call them travails?) lasted through our arrival in JFK: immense passport control lines, full-body pat-downs, re-entry delays, etc. etc. etc. I am so tired that my immediate short-term memory is all I can muster up right now -- a late dinner at my parents' house -- and it's a wonder I drove home in one piece given how delirious I am. I expect the rest of the team feels the same. That we are glad to be home, but are missing Kremenchuk and our friends at NHC so, so much. That we wish we could go back, and bring all of NHF (and yes, a couple of bottles of kimchi) with us. That we wish we could see on a constant basis the glory of the Lord being made real in love and power throughout the city. That we are determined to be consistent and devoted in prayer for these most precious members of our extended family. That we hope to be able to tell everyone at NHF accurately and with great love everything that God showed, taught, revealed and empowered over the last 12 days.

We're home now - safe, unharmed, so hugely blessed and inspired. But please do continue in prayer for our U08 team as we re-acclimate and debrief. And always, always, please remain in loving and powerful prayer for NHC and all of our family members there.

Yaaaaawwwwwwn.

At the end of this day, blessed be the name of the Lord. Slava Bogu ("Praise God").
Love,
Cathy

Our last evening in Kremenchug and with NHC has ended. It is completely incomprehensible to our team that we're leaving here tomorrow morning (for Kiev). What is life without this city and these people and NHC going to be like? We cannot imagine it. We keep saying and thinking: "we do NOT want to go back to New York; rather, we want everyone in New York to come HERE. THAT would be perfect." We love it here. Funny, though - our feelings this year seem a little bit different than after our first turn here. Now that we've been here twice, there is a happy security in knowing: we'll be back. It's easier to say "see you again" because we know that it can and will be done.

Today, it was a little bit like yesterday didn't happen. Robbery? What robbery? It made me think of childbirth: lots of moms have told me that they consider it a great gift from God that they forget the pains of childbirth, and rejoice so much in their born children that they are mentally able to deal with the process of going through it again to have more kids. I considered yesterday and today like that: God gave us so many great gifts from yesterday evening through this day, that our minds and hearts were better occupied with things of Him than with things of this earth. Edward gave a short word during tonight's banquet, saying that in America we have many material things but lack happiness in our souls. Here in Kremenchuk, God took away some of our material things and poured happiness into our souls - keeping our eyes open to the strong movement of His Spirit within NHC and within Kremenchug through NHC. I'm thankful that He was so good to us and powerful over us, calling us into obedience and love for Him. I'm also thankful that our team obeyed and loved when called to do so.

(On a side note, because I know there are those who are dying to get this thrilling little tibdit: the two no-longer-dour detectives appear to have been on our case non-stop. They showed us some surveillance videotape today - what a bizarre thing to see some strange man pull Edward's wallet out of his pocket and use his credit cards. It was all very "Law & Order.")

There were multiple blessings and joys today, but I'll share just two for now:

1. At the banquet tonight (mostly to celebrate the retreat last week and to have a sharing time, but also a little bit to say goodbye to us), it was such a sweet thing to be together and to see the obvious ways in which our two families have grown just a little bit closer. It truly is a relationship now, with certain levels of intimacy having been reached, and a greater understanding of each other's hearts having been achieved. Praise God, for He is good, and He provides for us brothers and sisters in every place around the globe. I really felt that tonight - not in a way that was better or more than last year, but in a way that was different, growing, bigger. God gave me a vision for U09, U10, U11, U12, etc. etc. etc. EXCITING and JUICY! So, who's ready to sign up and start language lessons? =)

2. The two detectives came to the banquet! They sat and ate with us for a short while! And we were able to give them gifts of gratitude, and extend to them our friendship and future prayers. Luda says that their hearts were touched. We pray that God continues to speak to these two men, and that NHC would be empowered to continue communication (and a future relationship) with them. At this point, we no longer care about the items we lost. Our only care is that these two wonderful men know WHY they are wonderful: because they are created in the image of the Living God and are immensely loved by Him.

Tired, tired, tired. Jen, Cesar, Sang, Robert, Grace - you know what I mean? Tired and happy. So thankful to God for all He provided and taught and revealed. For every blessing He poured out. For every ounce of grace, compassion, mercy, love and power that we were able to receive from Him, extend to each other within the team, and then pour out to those around us at NHC and Kremenchug at large. We're also so hopeful and excited for God's work here in this city, especially through our sister church. We can't begin to describe how AWESOME they are. How much they LOVE JESUS. How much they LOVE THEIR NEIGHBORS. To type the over-used word "inspiration" makes me feel ashamed and lame, but that's all I can muster up for now. NHC is an inspiration to us, and a great blessing and challenge to our team - from now on, how will we walk with Jesus? How will we study God's Word? How will we hear His voice, and how will we obey Him? How will we live, love, sing praises, lift up worship, speak blessing, receive power? How will we think? How will we spend each nanosecond that we are awake, for each day we are alive on this earth? Our prayers for our Father's guidance of NHC and NHF are abundant.

Tomorrow, to Kiev. Perhaps no $4 ballet this time, but since it's summer, we're looking forward to walking about town, finishing up our gorging on delicious Ukrainian food, and perhaps relaxing and talking and loving on each other with the grace of Christ at some outdoor cafe, drinking this awesome sludgy Ukrainian coffee (being thrown back by Edward and I but doing quite a number on the others, if you know what I mean, heh-heh). Then to New York (forgive me that it's hard to write the word "home" in that last phrase ...).

We can't wait to see you. JC is totally right - we miss all of you, our friends & family back in New York, but truthfully, we wish you were HERE instead of us having to leave Kremenchug. We dare to dream big dreams that one day, on this earth, such a union of our churches might actually happen.

Please continue to pray for us: God's covering in Kiev, safety in travels, and always, always, another day of living all out for His glory and His reknown.

And please continue to pray for Pastor Sasha, the leadership here, NHC, and all of their ministries ... and the people of Kremenchug and Ukraine.

Love,
Cathy

Well, this serves me right for joking about our team members not doing anything to draw the attention of the Ukrainian police! (And yes, it is only because of the OBVIOUS GOODNESS of God that I can even be thusly cheeky about this day right now.)

It's 12.44a Tuesday, local time. The last day has been ... bizarre? And yet not, because God's voice kept speaking to every person on the team: "I planned this. I wrote this day. I want you to walk through this with Me. I WILL carry you, and I WILL be glorified in this, and My Name will STILL be lifted high because that is My perfect will, and it is GOOD."

We had some items stolen from us last night (Monday night). The sordid details can wait; for now, it's sufficient to say that each person on the team is MORE THAN FINE, untouched and healthy and safe. Each item that was taken is replaceable; thank God that we are each in a position to be able to do so; we're counting our blessings, and they are indeed abundant. What is NOT replaceable are the hours of videotape. It was going to be our greatest joy to show you more of these folks who are becoming more and more like our true brothers & sisters, to the point where it seems like even our English inflection or the raising of an eyebrow or a crinkling of a nose is sufficient to communicate all we want to say to each other. No grotesque hand gestures needed as much. We are sad about the video, the faces, the moments. We thank God for our brains being capable of memory, our mouths being capable of sharing through speech, and YOUR hearts, capable of receiving NHC and its members no matter what.

The police were wonderful, and wouldn't you know it, NHC was praying and asking the Lord to give them a ministry to the local authorities. Perhaps another route might have been more - how do you say - preferable? But two detectives who were particularly sour and dour at the start of the day ended their day with smiles and the potential to come to our church banquet tomorrow evening. What God is planting here is SO evident, our eyes can hardly stand to gaze upon His glorious work, but we do and we drink it in greedily. We believe more than ever in the power of the Lord to work miracles. And big ones, at that.

Luda, one of our interpreters and basically our lifeline here, has also been a great encouragement. She and Sasha (who visited last August) spent the whole day with us, just going from place to place, helping us write email after email, make phone call after phone call, and basically just encouraging us with their immense faith that GOD IS GOOD. Luda has not for one second allowed the thought: "too bad we lost things." There is no room for loss in her faith in God. That lifts us up and the Lord is using her to help our unbelief and to lift our (momentary) discouragements. They have been not only essential, but PROVIDENT GIFTS from the very hands of God. Please, would you be praying for them even in these last couple of days - sustenance, strength, refreshment, rest and heaps of blessings from our Father. (And on a side note, the best thing about Luda: every time the police call us with an update, she half-jokingly scolds: "I thought I TOLD you not to call me until you FOUND something! Now, go FIND something and RETURN it to us!" It's awesome and hilarious to witness. It's even better to witness this same boldness when she speaks the love & truth of Jesus into people's lives. We are much chastened and challenged by her boldness, and that of most of NHC here.)

This morning, before i learned of the robbery, I opened to Romans 12.14 for my morning devotional and read to the end of that chapter. Paul's words struck my heart with compassion for the needy and those who just need the love of God, especially after our ministry to alcoholics yesterday morning. AFTER hearing of the robbery, I felt God's promise for this day: "I will rest upon you in power today, and give you all you need to use MY power and MY Spirit and MY Word to be fortified to repay evil with good, to love your enemies, to want to serve them and not curse them." I thank God and continue to do so, that His Word is always true, always correct, always relevant, in each and every situation, even those that turn on a dime.

There is so much more to say -- we spent the evening back visiting with folks in the area where there is a large alcoholic community and learned so much there about the love of Jesus, and later in the evening, we had dinner & dessert and awesome fellowship with a couple that is quite active in NHC -- but let me end with this: the past several days that we were back in Kremenchuk, only Edward's computer was able to access the free WiFi in the hotel. We joked that my little 12" PowerBook, now coming up on 5 years old, was too small and weak to get onto the network, which is also quite weak and unstable. With Edward's laptop gone now, I had just prepared to not have Internet access until we got to Frankfurt airport. To turn on my little lovely machine tonight and be able to write these words to you ... call it timing, call it luck, whatever. I call it God smiling upon me, and our team, once again. It is a small thing - the Internet. It is also a luxury that we do not necessarily need, even in these circumstances. But I believe in the cores of my brain and my heart that this is also God's provision to us. It lightens our load just a little bit more; it provides lines of communication when we need them most. Thank you Lord for thinking of even this small detail to comfort and provide.

Please, please, we continue to rely on your prayers. We ask you not to worry - we are SAFE and we are HAPPY. Truly happy. Our team has held each other up well today. Luda and Sasha and Pastor Sasha have taken and continue to take exceptionally good and loving care of us. Best of all, we have learned in ways that we may not have in New York that GOD. IS. GOOD. ALL. THE. TIME. There is nowhere we can go to walk out of the boundaries of His goodness AND His provision. The song running through many of our minds and on the tips of our tongues today:

"The name of the Lord is a strong tower
The righteous run into it and they are saved
The name of the Lord is a strong tower
The righteous run into it and they are saved.
BLESSED BE THE NAME OF THE LORD, O MOST HIGH."

So please continue in prayer for us, mostly that even in this last coming day in Kremenchuk, that we would be usable instruments of God. That our first and last thoughts of any second would be of our Father, that our only heart would be for His work here through us and through NHC, and that our only concern would be for the salvation of souls here, for HIS glory and HIS reknown.

As for us and our team, we trust in the Lord, for HE IS GOOD.

His great love, peace, strength and grace to you,
Love,
Cathy and U08

It's Cathy, writing on Sunday night - 11.40p. A long and wonderful day. It can be summed up in one sentence: WE GOT FREE MASSAGES.

Thank you, and good night.

Just kidding. Today was a blessed day - a good night's sleep for most of us, a beautiful, cool & breezy, sunny day throughout, a delicious breakfast (and then some for The Baby). We spent the morning serving coffee/tea to some alcoholics who gather locally to socialize, chat, drink. What interesting histories and stories we heard. How our hearts broke at the brokenness we witnessed. But how uplifted we were by the Spirit reminding us that we have hope, and this hope we have to give, and we were able to do so. Most of all, we were inspired and so moved by NHC and their work, their commitment. It's not just the Western mentality of "we SHOULD do this b/c it's right to do" but a greater urgency and a deeper love. They love Jesus more than anything else and want to share Him. They want to win souls for Him more than doing anything else, and understand the urgency of outreach. We - NHF and the United States and anyone else who would be wooed into complacency - have much to learn, from NHC and churches like this, and ultimately from the loud commands of the Lord.

We have to tell you about the massive mall here too ... not as great as the free massages, but still pretty cool.

Sunday worship = warm & touched by the hand of God. You can use your wildest imagination to consider what it must have been like to be here with our friends, brothers & sisters, and to feel the language barrier melt away in praise and being together in God's Word. By the time we got to our meeting with the NHC leadership team, it was as if the interpreters weren't even there. Communication & fellowship was natural and free, and so, so warm. Thanks be to God that like any relationship, our sisterhood is growing and becoming stronger.

Frivolous news: Soyeun is constantly hungry and needing to graze on an hourly basis. Minjung's bug bites are lessening in their pain & intensity. Edward wore a tie today (and was the only one who did, for Pastor Sasha wore a bowling shirt. For real.) John is composing a Ukrainian-Korean dictionary; you'd be surprised ... and me, I'm much more refreshed, largely because of the massage. FREE MASSAGE. Awesome.

God's love to you,
Cathy

Hello from Kremenchug. We have just finished the camp-- which was simply an amazing time-Slava Bogu (Praise God). We have been so very blessed and feel God's presence and love. There is also this added dimension. As we work and worship side by side with our Ukrainian brothers and sisters we feel the joy of heaven touching earth. The final evening we watched a Hillsong Worship video, and then spent the night worshipping in our two languages. There was this sense of the kingdom of God stretching from USA to Australia to Ukraine. We come together as different nations but united in one God. There is much more to tell but you will receive another update from us soon.

In the love of King of all Nations,

U08 Team

So far at the family camp/retreat, with beach, volleyball, lots of food, and great worship. No problem with communications. Praise God! Pleaes keep praying!

We're here safe in Kiev (just outside) - had lunch at this really tasty place! YUM.

We have about a 2-hr drive to Kremenchuk where we'll rest and then head out to camp tomorrow morning ... so far, everything has gone REALLY smoothly.

Please tell James Jung that Soyeun is fine and is eating well.
John Cho is in the bathroom right now. The toilet is in the floor. That's fun.
MInjung is fine too.
Edward is also fine.

OK, we have nothing else to say now. We'll update again soon. Please keep on keeping on in prayer for us and for our team, and for NHC and camp.
Love,
Cathy

Hi, we're in Frankfurt, eating fries at McDonalds. Leaving for Kiev in 3.5 hours. Edward sat next to an Irish Christian on the plane ... his dream come true. Soy is doing great, we all are. Keep praying!