Joe Ragan

A group of West Point cadets are coming to Kiev this weekend. They are part of the BSU on the WP campus. I have the privilege to house 3 of these guys for the week. (Of course, they will be on their own after the 14th as I am leaving for Kstan!) [...]

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Many of you have been praying for my mom. She was admitted to the hospital last Friday after giving my oldest sister, Jan, a big scare.
My mom has pneumonia and low potassium. She is getting better and they are running more test to give her a thorough checkout. They are [...]

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It seems that much of what I have written recently deals with the weather. Well, during winter, that is much of the life here.
If you have checked the calendar, it is March 9. I awoke with a beautiful sunrise happening! Yesterday the sun was out all day, and it looks [...]

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I woke up this morning to a BIG surprise. We must have gotton around 6-7 inches or snow during the night and it snowed most of the morning. It was beautiful to see the evergreen trees ladened with snow.
I had several appointments and took buses to the places where I needed [...]

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Well, I got my ticket yesterday! I’m finally going back to Kazakhstan. Can you tell that I am excited?
I will fly into Karaganda on the morning of the 15th, and I think my colleagues already have a road trip planned for me to the north. I remember going on this trip last [...]

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According to the Russian calendar, spring begins on March 1. We have had a lot of snow since that day, however. It snowed again yesterday. I went to town, got my ticket to go to Kazakhstan, then went to one of our larger markets. By the time I arrived there, the [...]

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I met with 6 students on Wednesday from Kiev Christian University. They, along with a couple of more students and non-students, are praying about doing summer missions in Kazakhstan.

Here are the students that I met with on Wednesday:
Luda, who likes to work with children.
Anya, who likes to be involved with evangelism.
Julia, has experience working [...]

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According to the Russian calendar, today is the first day of spring, however, someone forgot to tell mother nature. It started snowing this morning and hasn’t let up all day! While it hasn’t added up to what New York City got recently, it is still more snow than this Texas boy is used [...]

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