Travel Videos 365 - BETA version 1.02

If you're in a California public school, you know that fourth grade is "Mission Time." A new project about the Carmel Mission, thought by many to be the crown jewel of the mission system, hopes to make a critical portion of California history more accessible to 21st-century students and their families, and.... more

A snapshot of the work/purpose/mission for The Village Chapel's July 2007 missions trip to Guatemala. Songs by Judson Spence and Kenny Alphin. Photography by Christiev Alphin, Gregory Byerline, and David Perry. www.thevillagechapel.com www.judsonspence.com www.bigandrich.com

I mailed two boxes of Why Creeds and Confessions? books -- 80 copies -- to Rivne and Ivano-Frankivsk. I was excited that I was able to use the post office for the first time. I knew only how to say, "I want boxes," and "How much is it?" But I was successful. It cost only $5 to mail a big box of 40.... more

I stayed at the house of Slavik in Rivne overnight and took a morning train to Kiev. It was a four-hour ride and cost only $10. The total cost of my time in Ukraine was only about $600, which included transportation to Mukacheve and a day trip to Lviv. It is much more expensive than in 1991, of course, when I spent.... more

Trip to Nicaragua

We arrived at the Vodogray resort at about 7:30 am and no one at the camp was up and about yet. We had bread and sausage for breakfast with some fresh tomatoes and cucumbers -- the typical Ukrainian breakfast. So in all this was about 36 hours of travel with almost no sleep. After my breakfast I was shown to my room.... more

On Friday, we had our morning service and we went on a bus ride to Uzhgorod. This is a city on the border of Slovakia about an hour northwest of Mukacheve. On this trip, I got to talk more to Anna. In one of our conversations, she talked about how her family owns a small potato farm and how hard it is to dig.... more

Armitage Church Chicago sends small mission team into the "Harvest" of New Orleans during the 2007 Spring Break.

This is my teams mission trip to Zambia Africa. We went through an organization called Youth In Mission which is organized by the Church of the Nazarene. We were there for 6 1/2 weeks. We stayed with a missionary family for 4 weeks doing missions in Lusaka. We stayed 2 weeks in Ketwe with Africans. We went sight.... more

This was my big day in Kiev. I wanted to take a lot of video with my digital camera. Although I have similar analog video from 1991, 1997 and 2000, it's not the same quality. You can see some of these on the Predvestnik web page. I took the metro to Kreshatik and switched stations -- went two stops north -- when I.... more