{"id":3086,"date":"2013-09-19T13:26:24","date_gmt":"2013-09-19T10:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sukofamily.org\/?p=3086"},"modified":"2017-06-30T02:53:58","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T23:53:58","slug":"yes-were-leaving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sukofamily.org\/yes-were-leaving\/","title":{"rendered":"Yes, We&#8217;re Leaving!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We finally purchased our tickets for the US and that makes everything seem a little more real. Now we are trying to figure out how to live for almost a year out of one suitcase!<\/p>\n<p>We fly out of Kiev on October 15th and arrive in Seattle the same day. We return to Ukraine on August 11th 2014.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;d like to have us visit your church we still have a few Sundays open in May and June 2014 but they&#8217;re going fast. Check out our <a href=\"https:\/\/sukofamily.org\/?page_id=602\">schedule<\/a>\u00a0and then contact us if you want to make something happen.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime we have a lot to do before we leave Ukraine!<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wI2febABBTo?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Christina&#8217;s Prayer Requests<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Pray for our kids as they homeschool, especially that they&#8217;ll be able to make the transition to the US. We will be traveling a lot while we are in the States and that can make it difficult to keep to the school schedule, not to mention that a couple of our kids don&#8217;t even really know what life is like in the US so there could be some culture shock.<\/li>\n<li>Pray also for Christina as she works to get our apartment ready to leave. Another family from our church will be staying in our apartment while we are gone, so we have to organize and box up a lot of our things.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Caleb&#8217;s Prayer Requests<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Pray for the medical team we will be helping to host. The team arrives tomorrow and will be doing a week of ministry in villages around Odessa.<\/li>\n<li>Pray for the family seminar coming up on October 12th in our church. I will be speaking on how to communicate the gospel to children. Watch the blog too because I&#8217;ll be posting some of the thoughts there. In case you missed it you might want to check out <a href=\"https:\/\/sukofamily.org\/?p=3041\">&#8220;Stop Telling Your Child to Behave.&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>Question: If you had to leave your home and live out of one suitcase for one year what would you NOT leave behind?<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We finally purchased our tickets for the US and that makes everything seem a little more real. 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