Joe Ragan

Grace church, which will be 3 years old soon, is very dear to my heart. I taught English classes there for over a year, and have been involved in several other ministries as well.
However, what I love most is getting to know the people.
The pastor, Valodia, and his family are very dear [...]

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The population of the U.S. is scheduled to officially hit 300 million at 7:46 a.m. (EDT) Tuesday, when the Census Bureau’s population clock rolls over to the big number. Check it out here.

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During WW II, there was a segment of the population that fought against the Nazis and the Red Army of the Soviet Union. They were fighting for Ukraine’s indepence.
Yesterday, a large rally was held in the downtown area and there were a few minor clashes between the Red Army veterans and these [...]

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I found this article interesting…
It says there are over 39 million subscribers to cell phone services. This is in a country with about 48-49 million people. I knew that many (and I do mean MANY, young people have cell phones, but this is hard to believe that almost 80% of the population have [...]

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This evening I discovered that Yahoo Sports was actually going to show a football game worth seeing, at least somewhat… Georgia and Vandy. I guess that beats the other game they were showing today… Lehigh and Yale…
I will be in the states in a few short weeks and will be able to see some [...]

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I traveled to Odessa, Ukraine on Tuesday afternoon with Vadim. Vadim went to Kazakhstan this past summer. We arrived around 6 p.m. and had dinner at the food court of one of the “malls” near the house where we were to stay.
I found out that Vadim had never been to Odessa and had [...]

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While on staff at Southwayside in FW, I loved to take Sunday afternoon naps. Usually, there was a group of us that would have lunch somewhere and then afterwards I would go home, turn on the Cowboys (during football season) and then take a 1-2 hour nap. During that time the Cowboys made for [...]

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I arrived at Grace church right as the service was set to begin. Since I didn’t go to be until 2:30 a.m. this morning, it was tough getting up to go to a 10 a.m. service, but I did!
The room was unusually packed early. They had had a baptism service in the Dniper [...]

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Saturday was a great day for me. My two favorite teams played ranked teams and both won!
I listened to the Texas/ OU game on the internet. It was great. I stayed up till the end (almost 2 a.m. for me…). Peterson losing the ball and Texas taking the ball [...]

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Well, I have my ticket to go home. I will leave Kyiv, early (flight at 6:45 a.m.) Thursday, November 2. I have a short layover in Amsterdam and then I fly to Houston, arriving there at 1:30 p.m.
The plan is to pick up the car from Macedonian Call Ministries (thank you for providing!!!) [...]

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