{"id":5501,"date":"2015-06-13T00:10:19","date_gmt":"2015-06-12T21:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sukofamily.org\/?p=5501"},"modified":"2015-06-13T00:10:19","modified_gmt":"2015-06-12T21:10:19","slug":"honestly-last-week-was-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sukofamily.org\/honestly-last-week-was-hard\/","title":{"rendered":"Honestly Last Week Was Hard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Honestly last week was difficult!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not complaining but some weeks it seems like it all comes at once.<\/p>\n<p>Last week Christina&#8217;s uncle passed away in Nickolaev so Christina took a day and attended the funeral.<\/p>\n<p>The van also broke down and ended up costing us about $600 in repairs.<\/p>\n<p>We also had some difficult counseling situations with a couple we are working with.<\/p>\n<p>And we just started remodeling our kitchen and bathroom (you can see what that looks like<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/L5FGcmS7r3M\" target=\"_blank\"> here<\/a>)!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PmRjaPNfkos?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>But God is good and sometimes we need to be reminded that we live in a fallen world, a world that desperately needs God&#8217;s redeeming power.<\/p>\n<p>Last week we certainly could sense the fallen part!<\/p>\n<p>With every problem also comes some ministry opportunities. Two days after Christina traveled to Nickolaev for her uncle&#8217;s funeral, I also went to Nickolaev.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5505\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5505\" data-attachment-id=\"5505\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/sukofamily.org\/honestly-last-week-was-hard\/dcim114gopro\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/sukofamily.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/GOPR5506.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"640,480\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Picasa&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;HERO3+ Silver Edition&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;DCIM114GOPRO&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1433608115&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;2.77&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.000244140625&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;DCIM114GOPRO&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"DCIM114GOPRO\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;DCIM114GOPRO&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/sukofamily.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/GOPR5506.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5505\" src=\"https:\/\/sukofamily.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/GOPR5506.jpg\" alt=\"DCIM114GOPRO\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sukofamily.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/GOPR5506.jpg 640w, https:\/\/sukofamily.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/GOPR5506-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sukofamily.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/GOPR5506-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/sukofamily.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/GOPR5506-573x430.jpg 573w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5505\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grace Church in Nickolaev<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I helped lead an all day evangelism seminar for about 45 people. How exciting to see the desire of this church to enlarge God&#8217;s Kingdom by sharing the power of Jesus Christ!<\/p>\n<p>Sorry for the silence on the blog, but it&#8217;s not because there&#8217;s nothing happening here!<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for all your prayers!<\/p>\n<h3>Here&#8217;s a question: Can I pray for you? Let me know what I can pray for.<\/h3>\n<p>PS. Tomorrow we are taking the family to Western Ukraine for a little rest, I&#8217;ll probably post some videos on it when I get a chance. You can catch them\u00a0on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCGRyEnvcIqYi1pGQRBNqbw\" target=\"_blank\">Youtube.<\/a><br \/>\n<script src=\"https:\/\/apis.google.com\/js\/platform.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"g-ytsubscribe\" data-channelid=\"UCGRyEnvcIqYi1pGQRBNqbww\" data-layout=\"default\" data-count=\"default\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Honestly last week was difficult!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not complaining but some weeks it seems like it all comes at once.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5505,"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],"tags":[10,369],"class_list":["post-5501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ministry","category-new","tag-evangelism","tag-nickolaev"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sukofamily.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/GOPR5506.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3izZc-1qJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1825,"url":"https:\/\/sukofamily.org\/2-days-with-25-church-leaders\/","url_meta":{"origin":5501,"position":0},"title":"2 Days with 25 Church Leaders","author":"Caleb Suko","date":"December 16, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"I have to say \"thank you!\"' to \u00a0all who were praying for us this past weekend. \u00a0Misha and I traveled to the city of Nickolaev, about 2 hours from Odessa. \u00a0We were invited to share the Good Soil evangelism and discipleship seminar with a group of church leaders from the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Ministry&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Ministry","link":"https:\/\/sukofamily.org\/category\/ministry\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/69.89.31.195\/~sukofami\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/DSC01713.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/69.89.31.195\/~sukofami\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/DSC01713.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/69.89.31.195\/~sukofami\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/DSC01713.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":5203,"url":"https:\/\/sukofamily.org\/ministry-in-nickolaev-ukraine-video\/","url_meta":{"origin":5501,"position":1},"title":"Ministry in Nickolaev Ukraine -Video","author":"Caleb Suko","date":"March 19, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"It's always a challenge to get out of the house on time for church on Sunday morning with five kids in tow. 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