Gone to the Mountains

Ok everyone, dont panic...we wont be emailing or posting for about 10 days or so. We are on our way to western Ukraine in about 15 min. We will be doing 2 more VBS and going to Uchgarod on the western border. Please pray for our safty. We will be back soon and well email then. Love everyone.
The Applings

Youth Camp Ukraine 2009!!!

WOW!!!!

What a great time we had at youth camp. This was the first time for Steph and me to be part of camp like this. We had 26 youth attend the camp which is not as much as we were prepared to have but God is in control so these are the ones he wanted there I suppose. We experienced some very powerful and spiritual moments with the Lord during these 5 days of camp. There were two days in particular that God's presence was really felt. Every night Steph and I prepared a skit before the main service, but there was something unusual about Wednesdays service. Tonya Duddek came up with the idea for the skit that just happened to be the life story of one of our translator/workers Vita, Stepon's wife from Carpathia. After the skit she shared her testimoney and then Jeff Duddek preached for just a few minutes. That night 16 young people up front and prayed and asked Jesus into there heart. It was a very emotional and serious moment. The kids were just crying all over the place. Then later on Artyom who repented last year at youth camp made some confessions that he had not lived the life people thought he did. He would say he was a Christian but did not live the life of one. He asked us all including the Lord to forgive him and we did and God really has changed him. The past couple of days around him he has been so different. There has been a lot of stuff that he was holding on to that he is burning in the trash pit out back. Friday we had a really bad brush fire that started from another campsite and the wind blew it right in our direction. All of our campers and workers pitched in and getting water from the sea we were able to put it out quickly. God really helped us.