Ukraine Trip

On Friday I fly to Toronto, and on Saturday we head out to Vienna and then Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine. I don't know whether I'll be able to get onto the internet there at all, but I will post my tentitive itinerary so you'll have an idea where I am for the next 2 weeks. I do value your prayers for our group. Thank you!

Material Resources Learning Tour
Ukraine
May 25 – June 4, 2008
Draft 1

Sunday, May 25 – travel day
§ arrive in Dnepropetrovsk
§ travel to Zaporozhye and check in at Intourist hotel
§ supper at Pow-Wow (next door restaurant)
§ overnight in Zaporozhye (Zap)

Monday, May 26 – Zap city
§ Breakfast at hotel
§ Visit MCC office
§ Welcome and orientation by MCC Rep and Pavel Metlenko – Senior presbyter of Baptist Union in Zaporozhye oblast (province)
§ Lunch in the office
§ 14:00-18:00 – Zap city and Mennonite history sightseeing (Mennonite buildings, The oak tree, Khortitza area)
§ 19:00 - supper at Zaimka
§ Overnight in Zap

Tuesday, May 27 – Makeyevka
§ Breakfast at hotel
§ Depart to Makeyevka (3,5 hour trip with a minibus)
§ Meeting with The Good Shepherd partners (orphanage)
§ Lunch at The Good Shepherd, meeting MCC workers there
§ Visit with partners at Donetsk Christian University (DCU)
§ Supper in downtown Donetsk
§ Overnight at DCU

Wednesday, May 28 – Kharkov
§ Breakfast in DCU cafeteria
§ Depart for Kharkov (4,5 hour drive with a minivan)
§ Visiting with partners in Pervomaisk area
§ Lunch hosted by partners in Birke/Sokolovo
§ Depart for Zaporozhye (4 hour drive with minivan)
§ Supper in a restorant along the way
§ Overnight in Zap at Intourist

Thursday, May 29 – Zap
§ Breakfast at hotel
§ 10:00 tea at Mercy Home
§ Devotions -Pastor Anatoly Trachuk (Pentecostal partners)
§ Lunch at Ukraina
§ 14:00 Kichkas Baptist Church - meeting with Senior presbyter Metlenko
§ Visit the Medical Center of Christian Medical Association (CMA in Zap)
§ Visit the Baptist Children’s Center
§ 18:00 - supper at Trakter with Pavel & Irina Metlenko, Olga Rubel (13 people)
§ overnight in Zap at Intourist


Friday, May 30
§ Breakfast at hotel
§ Check out of hotel
§ Morning - travel to Crimea -Simferopol (5 hour train ride)
§ Lunch with partners – ECB Crimea (Senior presbyter Veneamin Yukhimets)
§ Visiting ECB warehouse and other MCC projects and partners
§ Supper
§ Overnight in Simferopol (billeting)

Saturday, May 31
§ Breakfast with hosts
§ Visit an outreach of CMA Crimea in villages
§ Lunch with CMA team
§ Depart to Bachtchisarai castle
§ Travel to Yalta
§ Overnight in Yalta

Sunday, June 1
§ Breakfast – in church
§ Participate in Baptist Church Sunday service
§ Lunch in Yalta downtown
§ 14:00-16:00 visit material resources recipients
§ 16:00-18:00 walk and supper along Yalta coast
§ Overnight in Yalta

Monday, June 2
§ Breakfast in the church
§ Visit Levadia Castle (Yalta Conference, 1945: Churchill-Stalin-Roosevelt)
§ Bag lunch
§ Travel to Zaporozhye by train
§ Supper - McDonald’s eat in train
§ Overnight in MCC apartments in Zap

Tuesday, June 3
§ Brunch at MCC Rep’s apartment
§ Wrap-up/evaluation
§ Going to the Market/shopping
§ 15:30 depart for supper out of town
§ Early supper at old Mennonite Home in Roochaevka (close to Zap)
§ Overnight in MCC apartments in Zap

Wednesday, June 4
§ Breakfast in the apartments (food will be provided in the evening)
§ Packing
§ 11:15 lunch together in the MCC office
§ 12:00 depart from Zap to the airport
§ 15:00 flight departure from Dnepropetrovsk (?)