The total experience was worth of 20 hours driving one way to the conference and Eastern European Pastors Gathering. I do not know about others, but I personally need periodically get inspired, broaden and refresh my vision, be encouraged by seeing what God is doing through my brothers and sisters in Christ around the world, and hear how God keeps doing what he promised to do - build His Church and the gates of hell will tot prevail it.
This trip has become a perfect discipleship moment. There were 8 of us traveling in a van and a family in a car behind us. All of them are key people in the church. It brought us very close to each other.
We thank God for the opportunity to see such a beautiful country. Every time I looked out in the window, I had hard time believing that the mountains are real and not just a picture!
We just had our first camp this Summer. It was camp for our church kids, but what made it special was the fact that our kids went to minister to the local children in Carpathian villages. They went well prepared to do games, drama, and different fun activities through which the Gospel was presented and the Love of God was shared.
We took the youth from our Change the World Outreach on a bicycle trip. We loaded all the bicycles into our church van and went to a starting point to a small historical town, Zhovkva, near Lviv. Evryone vent there by bus. We stopped for a picnic in the woods. We made 30 km that day. Kids were tired but happy. 
We are a small church but we believe God will use us to reach the nations (that is why we are a part of Every Nation). We have always believed that but today it has become more real then ever. We have sent Tolik on a short mission trip to Egypt and today he returned and showed us many photos and told how God used him to touch lives in that predominately muslim country. Tolik was working with a ministry in Cairo, helping them with humanitarian aid for children in the orphanages. He was also involved in helping the elderly people, but mostly he worked with kids sharing 
the Gospel with them on several occasions. Tolik is also on staff with Campus Crusade for Christ in Lviv.
