 The electric trams of L'viv provide one of our main sources of intercity transportation.
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 Happy Birthday Jonathan Rhoades (May 28) and Nathan Day (May 27)!
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 Classic Austrian architecture of L'viv
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 This street leads to one of the apartments in L'viv where the CMO men live.
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 Matthew Ballmann preaches the Gospel through chalk-art in L'viv while Joshua translates into Ukrainian.
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 We had a much bigger crowd than we had anticipated.
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 Matthew will be teaching a chalk-art seminar for the CMO men in mid June.
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 After arriving in the train station in Slavsk, the men regroup and check their gear.
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 Our final destination was the small village of Yalynkuvateh. We often hire this old Soviet van to take us to remote villages like Yalynkuvateh.
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 Everyone pays the driver after arriving in Yalynkuvateh. (We should ask this guy about frequent flyer miles!)
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 As usual, our first task is to stamp the address where the film will be shown. Each letter must then be put back onto the "letter palette" by hand.
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 The sun begins to set in the Carpathians.
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 Matthew Ballmann and Evan Hein walk to the next group of houses to distribute invitations for The Light of the World film.
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 Backpacking has become a big part of our lives!
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 Joshua chats with a local who promised to lead us to the director of the community center (where we will later show the film.)
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 Even though he was mostly drunk, the man lead us to the person we were searching for. He also insisted on a group picture.
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 Matthew Ballmann hangs a poster advertising The Light of the World film.
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 The village of Volosyanka
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 Sergiy Chepara (one of our Bible students) preaches the Gospel after a showing of The Light of the World in Slavsk.
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 Since we will be showing the film in two villages on the same day next week, the men had to hike about 2 kilometers to the second of these villages. It rained most of the way.
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 Joshua leaves the trail to check out a possible camp site while the other men look on.
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 Evan Hein hands invitations to the film showing to two villagers.
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 Matthew erected this make-shift bridge across a stream in the mountains.
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 In Slavsk, the CMO men got to enjoy a genuine Ukrainian meal at the home of one our friends. The meal included hot stew, perogies, meat patties, mashed potatoes, and salad.
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