05/13/2009 - Conference bound

Tonight we leave for the conference on the overnight train to Kyiv. It's always such a hassle to travel by train because the 6.5 hour trip (by car) takes 8-10 hours, but the conference is well worth it.

I've always loved the national conference ... getting to see old friends, make new ones, enjoy great worship and teaching, etc. There's also something about setting aside your life during that time to focus on the Lord and place Him as, sadly, a higher priority than we all too often give Him.

I know I personally get very distracted by the work I do at the computer and I find sometimes that I forget to set time aside everyday to focus on prayer and meditation with God. Sometimes even reading the Bible gets shelved due to a busy schedule, but at the conference it's easy to do those things and spend time with our Papa.

So, we leave tonight and I won't be back on the internet until Monday sometime. Hopefully I will have a lot of pictures ready for you :)

Oh yeah ... journal stuff ... today was just a bunch of running around getting ready for our trip. We would have had our midweek service, but literally no one came. That's ok though, because even the translator forgot to come and it gave us more time to prepare :) I hope people do start coming though - last time we tried a midweek service it was the same deal where no one came and it just felt forced and not led by God.