Sunday

Today was another great day at Bucha Church. After the service, Victor came up to me and said, “Amy, I’ve been gathering information and everyone wants to know why you did not sing today?” HA! We will be here for 4.5 months and I brought 3 songs to sing. Hmm. There may be a lot of repetition happening if they expect me to sing every week.

My compromise is that I think I will join their choir. This will mean getting to a couple of practices, but it will be fun. I’ve always enjoyed listening to them, now I’ll get to sing with them! Oh, yeah, I have to sing in Russian and Ukrainian with them. I think my Russian teacher will be happy to hear this!

The service was very interesting. The first sermon was preached by Victor and then the second message was by the associate pastor (so Victor translated for us) and it was about civic involvement and about voting and politics. It was particularly interesting to me and also very interesting to hear a Ukrainian perspective.