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CURRENT TRAVEL BLOGS

June 28-July 15, 2009
Victor Kubik will be traveling to Scandinavia, Hungary, Ukraine June 28-July 15, 2009. Follow his visits to UCG families, new contacts, teaching English to orphans and street children and ending up in the Chernobyl area of Ukraine.  View this blog.

ARCHIVED TRAVEL BLOGS

Victor Kubik
UCG Council of Elders member and senior pastor for Eastern Europe.

January 13 - February 2, 2009  
Vic and Bev Kubik travel to Hungary, Ukraine, Poland, Latvia, Estonia and Sweden. They will visit with Sabbatarian Christians in Ukraine. There they will arrange for the publication of more United Church of God literature, visit the LifeNets Vinogradov Street Children’s Program and visit the Churches. In Poland they will meet with the Andrew Lee family who have resettled in Warsaw from the United States. In Latvia they will spend time with Robert Shultz and his family. He pastors the Smiltene Baptist Church that has been keeping the Sabbath and Holy Days. In Estonia they will do a Good News and literature mailing and visit with our brethren. The last Sabbath of the journey will be in Sweden with the Paul Spenser family and others. View this blog.

September 25, 2008 - October 29, 2008
Vic and Bev Kubik travel to Malawi, Zambia and South Africa from October 2-29th. They will attend the United Church of God's Fall Festival in the first two countries. Their purpose will also be to follow up and report on all the LifeNets projects in those areas that include agriculture, education, medicine and livelihood development. These projects have helped successfully raise the standard of many in these impoverished countries. View this blog.

July 16-29, 2008
In this travel blog I want to document the experiences of visiting our Churches in Estonia and Sweden. We plan to meet with more people than we ever have before...more than 20 in Estonia and 40 or more in Sweden. View this blog.

December 9, 2007 - January 10, 2008
UCG Council member Victor Kubik and wife Beverly visit Ukraine, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Sweden and Norway. They visit 22 people, plan for 2009 Feast of Tabernacles in Sweden and much more.
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June 10-29, 2007
Victor Kubik, Senior Pastor for Scandinavia and Eastern Europe will be traveling through Norway, Sweden, Finland and Estonia from June 10 – 28th. On this trip he will meet with United Church of God members, coworkers and people with whom we've known over the years. Services will be held in Sweden and Estonia on the two Sabbaths while traveling. In Estonia we will mail out two issues of the Good News magazine along with Bible Study Courses in Russian and Estonian along with sundry other literature requested.
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January 10-24, 2007
Journey to Ukraine, Lithuania, Estonia, Finland and Sweden. View this blog.

September 27 - October 20, 2006
Come and travel with Beverly and me to South Africa, Malawi and Zambia in September and October 2006. View this blog.

June 7-25, 2006
Four travellers on a journey through Hungary, Ukraine, Estonia, Finland and Sweden. View this blog.

Joel Meeker
Coordinator for French speaking areas of the world.

March 31 - April 22, 2009
A pastoral trip through Paris, Benin, Togo, Cameroon, Kenya and Rwanda. View this blog.

February 26 - March 8, 2009
This trip will entail a brisk sweep through Paris, and then on to Nendaz in the Quatre Vallées region of Switzerland - a stone's throw from the Matterhorn. We'll participate in a retreat for younger members of the United Church of God in French Europe. View this blog.

January 15 - February 15, 2009
This will be a month-long pastoral dash through African countries suffering from precarious governments, civil war, one of the world's highest violent crime rates, and a cholera outbreak to name a few points of interest. Then I'll go on to two islands of paradise in the Indian Ocean before ending the trip with a few days in chilly Paris. View this blog.

September 27 - October 22, 2008
A pastoral trip through sub-equatorial Africa. View this blog.

August 13-31, 2008
This blog will follow the progress of our first-ever United Youth Camp projects in Togo and Cameroon, with a layover stop in Côte d'Ivoire. We'll spend a few days in Belgium and France on the way out. View this blog.

June 16 - August 6, 2008
Adventures in the Middle East: A United Youth Corps service project in Jordan and Israel. Our family will accompany 8 United Youth Corps volunteers and participate with them on service projects in Jordan and on a 4-week archeological project in Megiddo, Israel, in addition to touring of historical sites with Biblical connections. View this blog.

April 10 - May 12, 2008
This trip should take me through France, Belgium, Switzerland, then down to Burundi, Rwanda, and Kenya, and finish with a weekend in the UK. View this blog.

January 20 - February 10, 2008
This pastoral trip will take me to Côte d'Ivoire, Togo, Kenya, Burundi, the Seychelles, France and Belgium. There will be travel in both winter and summer, and on both sides of the equator. And I should meet and visit with lots of fascinating people. View this blog.

September 5 - October 7, 2007
Come along as I visit three countries south of the equator: the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya and Rwanda; and three just north: Cameroon, Togo and Cote d'Ivoire. View this blog.

January 16 - February 12, 2007
Welcome! You can follow our progress on this pastoral trip on behalf of the United Church of God an International Association, to Mauritius, Madagascar, Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire, Benin, and France. View this blog.

June 6 - August 22, 2006
Welcome! This is the Meeker family travel blog about our summer 2006 around-the-world trip to visit members of the United Church of God. View this blog.

Jorge de Campos
April 2-14, 2009
In this travel blog, I report on my latest visit to Portuguese brethren, prospective members and Good News readers all over Portugal and the Portuguese islands. View this blog.

John Elliott
Senior pastor for East Africa.

April 9-24, 2008
This is trip is the spring senior pastor visit to East Africa. Several special events will take place on this trip including: Sabbath meeting with Bible Study Course graduates in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; several local church visits in Kenya; Passover and DUB-1 in Western Kenya; the ordination of UCG's first minister in East Africa; training for our deacons and 18 local congregational leaders. The trip is jam-packed with events and Ed and I are raring to go! View this blog.

August 26 - September 24, 2007
Senior pastor for East Africa, just completed a fascinating trip to China, including Beijing, Xian and Shanghai. View this blog.

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