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Charis Around the World

Life In Ukraine
Anne Sokol

Visiting The United States

Dear Charis Family,

It’s so energizing to be sending in my Charis final exam application, looking through my evaluations, and just seeing a journey come to an end, a good end. So many memories! Teaching four couples, being at their births, visiting a birth house then participating in a birth there, writing an article for Midwifery Today about that experience, being at the hospital with one of my girls who was going through a miscarriage, working with a homebirth midwife here . . . So many incredible opportunities opened up through my Charis studies!

I’m having to shift gears now. We’re planning a trip back to the States this coming March (when my parents will also be back from Togo, West Africa, where they are missionaries).

The challenge of this trip is that we need to raise a lot of new financial support. Vitaliy and I have always been here on the low side of support, and in the last few years, our financial needs have grown a lot. We moved from a village where we owned our own apartment, to a large, European city where we rent; we bought a second vehicle; have children nearing school ages; would like to have more ministry funds to put to good use; not to mention the inflation that hits Ukraine frequently and excessively.

So we have a wonderful opportunity before us! How marvelous it will be to see God supply our needs as He always so faithfully does! And it is a wonder to me how God does that. For example, one day I was in South Carolina in a restaurant, and I saw an acquaintance there with a friend from work. I briefly met that acquaintance’s friend and gave her a prayer card. And now that lady has been regularly supporting us since that time! And we are now a lot closer.  What a joy to see God burden and bring people along side us.

Vitaliy and I are in an “international marriage;” he is Ukrainian and I’m American. Because of the nature of things, making contacts with churches and people belongs to me simply because he doesn’t know many people in the States, and it’s hard for him to make phone contact with strangers because of his accent. With the way the world is now, I’m really hoping I can contact a lot of friends and make new friends online through my blog, through Facebook causes  and our e-newsletter.


But in the end, it really is God’s power that supplies for us the friends and financial support we need. Please pray with us as we continue along our journey as God's servants.
Thank you!  Anne Sokol
 

 


 Vitaliy with a former convict,
now a wonderful Christian man who trains Ukrainians how to evangelize.


Eleven people were baptized this summer!


Vitaliy was ordained this summer as a pastor-evangelist.
Evangelism is his passion like childbirth is mine!

Victoria, Anne, Vitaliy and Skyla Sokol
Our family in front of our “new” van! I have wheels, and it’s changed my life!
 

Our International Charis Family
Your stories from around the world touch us and we pray for your safety.
Thanks, Love and Blessings to every one of you!


 
'Behold, I will bring them from the north country, And gather them from the ends of the earth,
 Among  them the blind and the lame, The woman with child and The one who labors with child,  together,
 A great throng shall return there...And My people shall be satisfied with My goodness, says the LORD.'
 Jeremiah 31:8, 14
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October 2009