Wayne's Blog

Yesterday, we met with Maccas management for a second time.  We now have a(n unsigned) contract. All that remains is to agree on a price! and test our product in one of their trucks. Today we collected our first Maccas’ oil sample. It was 400 litres for testing on our equipment line.  If all goes [...]

Over the summer we’ve been working hard on getting our mini-biodiesel factory ready to handle much larger volumes of oil. We’re also installing purification equipment to bring our biodiesel quality up to meet the European standard.  All that remains is some welding, plumbing and electrical work.  After that we can test the production line.  Thank [...]

Olya and I covet our time together on our days off.  So, while the weather still holds we’ve been escaping in the church van to Kiev.  Of late, we’ve been discovering new parks to go for long walks in.  This week’s park is called Babin Yar (yar means ravine in Russian).  It has a tragic [...]

What do Mark & Matthew get up to when Mum and Dad go to Kiev for a date? They make VOLCANOES … and muffins (under qualified adult Kiwi supervision). Soda and vinegar were the active ingredients for the volcano.By clicking here you can see the eruption on youtube.

Mushroom picking is one of Ukraine’s favourite pastimes. During humid periods of the year you can see people walking through the forests collecting baskets full of mushrooms. For some reason these beauties have been left for use to enjoy… yes they are poisonous. Of course, I do miss growing our own mushrooms.  Although it did [...]

Somehow I didn’t publish this article…. enjoy We packed four vehicles full of people and travelled 250km to Chernigov in Northern Ukraine for our annual autumn conference with sister churches. The theme was “God’s heart revealed in Scripture” and everyone left with something new. Our worship team had a turn a leading worship at one [...]