Dave and I have stepped beyond our comfort zone this fall and agreed to host a DCU prayer group in our apartment. At the beginning of the school year, every student signs up for a prayer group, led by a faculty or staff member. Everyone meets one evening a week for the whole school year to pray, have some sort of devotion or spiritual content, and socialize. Dave and I actually aren’t completely sticking our necks out by signing up for a group, because we’re co-leading the group with our friend and co-worker, John White, who speaks Russian quite well. That’s where we feel our leading skills are lacking a bit. So we’re providing our apartment, the snacks and the entertainment (Dave really wants to teach everyone Rook). John and students will provide the devotional part. So it might not seem too hard, but we were still a bit nervous when people began to arrive yesterday evening. We didn’t understand everything when students introduced themselves, learned a few things about Ukrainian etiquette (the concept of “help yourselves” seems to be somewhat foreign, especially to the male gender), and stumbled our way through descriptions of the friends and family pictured in our photo album. But we pulled it off and I hope they had fun. And hopefully our 10 students will come back next week.
Laura
