Last week, I had the amazing honor and privilege of taking part in leading worship at a conference for youth and youth leaders here in Lviv. It was wonderful to see one thousand participants come together to learn and grow in their ability to serve young people and lead them to a greater understanding of God, His Word, and life with Him. The worship team is actually coming over this evening to our apartment to celebrate how God worked in and through that conference in our own lives. One of the crazy things that happened—all of the singers felt sick at some point in the week leading up to the conference, and a couple either had a temperature or felt nauseous the day before. However, on the morning of the conference, we are all healthy and ready to rock!

This was a real growing experience for me, as I’ve never had the opportunity to work with a vocal coach and have every song with a different part (we had four part harmonies for each of the eight songs we sang). That’s just a completely different level of vocal music than I’m used to. It was powerful, though! God used it and many people were roughed by the songs we sang.

I’m also really proud of our church. It was the main organizer of this national event, which is a testament to what God has done and will do in the future through our church.

Thank you to all who prayed while we were preparing for the conference! May God continue to work in Ukraine!