Today, we let the little ones spend most of the day playing in our apartment. We ventured out in the rain to go to Cilpo (the grocery store up the road) and to the coffee kiosk at the same shopping center. And then, ventured out again to have dinner at a restaurant that serves great pizza and has a small play area for children. I think this was the first time I had ordered in a restaurant without Mike or another Ukrainian- so it was good practice for my language skills- and I understood about 80% of what the waitress was talking about.
Mike had a Hope & Life meeting at the office in the afternoon, then prepped for his 6:30pm Advanced class.
Some cool, potential things in Hope & Life's future:
-Crisis pregnancy center (a place for women with unplanned pregnancies to go and receive support).
Hopefully, it will include free: ultrasounds, counseling, medical support (to an extent), etc... should be very cool.
I recall, on one of our past trips to Ukraine, a story that one of the pastor's told. His wife was pregnant with their 3rd child and had gone to her local clinic for a regular monthly appointment. She ended up waiting for a long time to see the medical staff because they kept taking women who were there for abortion procedures ahead of her. She was amazed as woman after woman went before her to end her pregnancy.
A crisis pregnancy center, with the aim of encouraging women to keep their babies and offering biblical counseling, would be awesome.
We'll keep you posted on any developments.
It took me almost 2 hours to get Solomiya to go to sleep, so I am off to do some therapeutic baking: banana chocolate chip muffins made in a cake pan because my muffin tin bit the dust.
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