Frequently Asked Questions - Lodging

You will eat breakfast in your apartment every morning as a team. A cook will come every morning to provide you with a fresh meal. If the team works with orphans, you will eat lunch with the children in the cafeteria everyday. And dinner will be served at a café or resturant every evening.

Yes, men in one room and women in the other room. Make sure you remember to bring ear plugs.

Yes, one shower and one bathroom for each location. Scheduling of times for people to take showers is imperative. We encourage half of the team to take showers in the evening and half in the morning.

The government controls the hot water, so the financial ability of the government will determine if your showers are hot or cold. In recent times, there has always been hot water, but there are no guarantees.

Few American appliances will work without an adapter. I would recommend that everyone bring normal handheld shavers and not electrical ones, if possible. There will be a blow dryer and curling iron there for the women in the SCM missionary apartment. We can purchase additional items, if necessary.

If missionaries stay in the SCM missionary apartment, there is a washer available, with a clothes line for drying. No other locations have a washer or dryer. Kharkov does have one professional cleaners, if necessary. The cost to use this service is the same or higher than in America. Please plan to wear your clothes multiple days in a row. This is very common for the culture.

Each team will sleep in one of four locations: SCM’s missionary apartment, New Life Church’s missionary apartment, a Ukrianian’s home, or a local Ukrainian hotel. If the teams are 16 people or less, then in all likelihood they will stay in the missionary apartments. Final locations will be determined and told to the team after the final team numbers have been determined.