Joe Ragan

Baseball on TV…in Kazakhstan? YES! To my amazement I found ESPN on my cable TV this past week. Most of the programming is tape delayed or old programs. However, the Sunday night baseball game is shown live here and with the time difference of 10 hours, it came on during the [...]

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I leave this week for Poland for our annual meeting. Due to the cost of air travel, I am traveling through Kyiv on Thursday night and then flying from there to Warsaw. I will do the same thing on the return trip.
The main downside to this is spending 9 hours in [...]

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Football…or soccer? The game of soccer, or as the rest of the world excluding the US calls it, football, is BIG news at the moment. With the World Cup dominating the news right now, it is almost impossible to not know what is going on.
Turn on the news, CNN, and it is the [...]

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The Ukrainian young people are in the middle of their time here. God is so good and some great things are happening. I am so excited to see how God is working in their lives.
Friday night 9 of the 13 Ukrainians were able to join us for dinner in Karaganda. (The other [...]

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Last Wednesday I arrived in Arkalik with several students. We arrived by train at 7:30 a.m. but I could tell immediately that the day would be warm…that turned out to be an understatement! As the day got longer, the temperatures got hotter. Eventually, settling on around 93-95 degrees!
While I am somewhat used [...]

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