Bryan Shufelt

Tomorrow we (Josh, Nathan, Evan, Daniel, and I) are heading to the mountains to hike the tallest mountain in our area – Mt. Porashka (I think this is the way to say it, but I could be wrong).  This is the same mountain that several of us hiked back in ‘06.  We will be hiking up there Thursday and coming back on Friday. Saturday and Sunday we will be going out to pass out invites for the film showing next Sunday, and we will be showing Fireproof in 2 villages on Sunday. Please pray for safety. Also, please pray for the showings on Sunday. Pray that these village’s priests will not be working against us by telling people to not come. For more info on how CMO is going, click here.  You can also watch my Twitter updates on the right side of this page.  Thank you for your pray support!

Heading out to the Carpathians tomorrow morning… Been really busy.
To keep up with how CMO is going check out: http://www.euroteamoutreach.org/index.php?p=ereport
Have a great day!

Yes, I know, this is way late…  Sorry about that.  Life has been busy, and now that CMO is up and going, it going even faster.  To keep up with what is going on with CMO this summer, click here.

As I’ve posted before, Daniel Courter arrived about 2 weeks early for CMO.  Since the project hadn’t started yet, he became my assistant at the Ministry Center.  Want to publicly thank him for all the work he helped do, everything from counting literature, wrapping Good & Evils, helping clean out and organize the MC office, checking Good & Evil Full for errors, inserting invites into the rest of the Good & Evil shorts, etc, etc, etc.  Thanks Daniel for all the help!

CMO started on June 1st.  It started off relatively slowly, but has been gathering steam and is now roaring down the tracks now!  Nathan Day arrived in L’viv on the morning of the 3rd, and the following day we headed up to the village of Kashchtovania to had out film invites for last Sunday’s showing.  We took the train for L’viv the Stree, then hoped on a bus to go the rest of the way.  Father Stepan (Kashchovania’s priest) got on the bus shortly after we did, and Josh was able to talk to him for the 2 hour ride to the village.  To read more about that conversation, please click here.  Needless to say, it was a shock and a blessing to met a born again Catholic priest in the Carpathians!  We pray that more of his fellow Catholics will come to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ.

We were in the mountains Thursday and Friday, with Friday being filled with a LOT of hiking!  For several hours we hiked through the Carpathians.  It was a interesting experience hiking in a short-sleeved polo sweating, then during a break in the hiking, putting on my hoodie and rain coat due to the really cold winds.  Crazy  We were able to hand out Good & Evil shorts and invites in 2 villages along the way in which we had not been before.  Then hoped on a train and headed back to Stree, then jumping on bus to finish out the route to L’viv.  Made great time due to that great new road

Saturday, Evan Hein joined us (He came in to L’viv the day before).  Nathan Day, Daniel Courter, and Evan Hein are all settled in the CMO apartment.  It’s between here and the Steele’s apartment.  It’s nice to have the entire team so close together!

Sunday we headed back into the mountains to pass out invites in the villages we will be showing ‘Fireproof’ in next week (There are 2 showings on Sunday 1:30pm and 5pm [5:30am & 9am CDT]).  We were only able to get one village done (ran out of invites), so we planned on heading back up there on Wed.  Show the film in Koshchtovania.  There was a wedding that happened on the same day, so we weren’t expecting a large audience.  We had 11 people when the film started and by the end we had had 13 people at one time or another.  Josh gave a salvation message at the end, then we gave out several tracts, Good & Evil shorts, and CBC starter packs.  Right before we left we had a time of prayer with Father Stepan and encouraged him to remain a light for Christ in his village.  It was a massive blessing to our team to get to know him better, and I hope we were an encouragement to him as well.

Monday was the CMO day off.  I had my language lesson with Veronica in the morning, followed by my first speech therapy session with Dara in a few weeks (She had surgery at the hospital for her back and is now able to do lessons again).  Started working on the never-ending pile of to-do’s, but missed out on the blog update

Tuesday we passed out Good & Evil Invites in 2 villages just outside of L’viv (Dublyany and the one next to it).  It was a warm day, and the sun was out.  Yeah, I got sunburned

Wednesday, we headed back up to the mountains to pass out film invites in the village we missed on Sunday.  Took about 4 hours, but we got invites to almost all of the houses!

Today the CMO team was going to be going out to another village in the L’viv area, but it was raining, and (for village distribution) is difficult to adequately get invites out to all the houses.  We decided to make it our Friday ministry day, with Evan & Daniel worked on relabeling our science tracts and plastic wrapping Good & Evil shorts for mountain distribution, Nathan working on preparing chalk skies for next week’s chalk talks, and Josh meeting with a lawyer about the immigration laws here in Ukraine.  Please continue to keep this in prayer.  It appears that the law is now requiring us to register with the OVIR’s office in L’viv, but we have had difficulties with this in the past.  Josh has another meeting tomorrow with someone from the OVIR’s office.  Please pray that this will be fruitful and that we would be able to find a way to get registered with minimal hastles.

Sunday we will be showing ‘Fireproof’ in Volosyanka at 1:30pm (5:30 am CDT) and in Yalynkuvatehat 5pm (9 am CDT).  Please pray that we will not be hindered in our showings by the priests, and that those who come will have open hearts for the Gospel.

Next week, we will also be working with a VBS here in L’viv.

Thank y’all for your prayers!  Sorry if this post is a little scattered.  It’s late, and I am falling asleep as I write this  God bless

We have a film showing of ‘Fireproof’ today in Koshchovania at 6pm (10am CDT). Please pray for a good turn out and open hearts to the Gospel. Watch my tweets for more info. Heading out in a few minutes! God bless

We’re heading to the mountains in a few minutes. I forgot/ran out of time yesterday to post, so sorry… To keep up with how our trip is going check out my twitter updates on the right hand column of this page or on Twitter itself (I can update that in the mountains visa SMS). Thanks for the prayers, God bless!