{"id":5381,"date":"2015-04-15T17:10:13","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T14:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sukofamily.org\/?p=5381"},"modified":"2015-04-16T15:35:57","modified_gmt":"2015-04-16T12:35:57","slug":"easter-outreach-in-odessa-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sukofamily.org\/easter-outreach-in-odessa-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Easter Outreach in Odessa, Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes God does something really amazing and that&#8217;s exactly what happened this past weekend when he provided amazing weather and an extraordinary opportunity to share the gospel and the love of Christ with refugees from Eastern Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XUpFkvC_9iQ?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not going to do a lot of writing here because I want the video to do the talking, so take a few minutes to watch this one please.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"5384\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/sukofamily.org\/easter-outreach-in-odessa-ukraine\/sony-dsc-262\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/sukofamily.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSC03598.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"640,359\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Picasa&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NEX-3&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1428831951&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;25&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;200&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.003125&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;SONY DSC&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"SONY DSC\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/sukofamily.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSC03598.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5384\" src=\"https:\/\/sukofamily.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSC03598.jpg\" alt=\"SONY DSC\" width=\"640\" height=\"359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sukofamily.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSC03598.jpg 640w, https:\/\/sukofamily.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSC03598-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sukofamily.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSC03598-600x337.jpg 600w, https:\/\/sukofamily.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSC03598-573x321.jpg 573w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested in the Orthodox Church&#8217;s practice of sprinkling as a means of sanctification check out <a href=\"https:\/\/sukofamily.org\/why-the-orthodox-church-sprinkles-everything-with-water\/\">this article<\/a> that I wrote this week.<\/p>\n<h4>Thank you for your prayers for us this weekend they mean a lot and they accomplished a lot!<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes God does something really amazing and that&#8217;s exactly what happened this past weekend when he provided amazing weather and an extraordinary opportunity to share the gospel and the love of Christ with refugees from Eastern Ukraine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5383,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,370,35],"tags":[49,374],"class_list":["post-5381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ministry","category-new","category-video-updates","tag-easter","tag-refugees"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sukofamily.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/easter-outreach.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3izZc-1oN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6430,"url":"https:\/\/sukofamily.org\/a-tense-easter-holiday-weekend-in-odessa\/","url_meta":{"origin":5381,"position":0},"title":"A Tense Easter Holiday Weekend in Odessa","author":"Caleb Suko","date":"May 3, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Armed men in men in camouflage showed up in our city just a few days before our Easter holiday weekend. 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