What a GREAT TIME is being had by all @campglownc this FIRST day of Summer Camp!! 🙌🔥❤️ It's a Wild but Wonderful Trek we're on together, learning to love GOD, adventure with Him and #goloveotherswell glowmission.org

This past weekend 24 teenagers were trained, loved on and equipped for a beautiful week of ministry at Camp GLOW...("The Wild Trek" for elementary kids starts today!! 🙌❤️) Will you take a moment to pray over these young lives who are making some of their first and formative spiritual memories of their lives? AND for these counselors and staff. Tony & Lauren Wagoner are two of the most gifted leaders and lovers of youth on the planet... Our team would love your prayers for this week (and next week...Middle School retreat) a camp!! ) Thank you!! Let's Go Love the next generation through prayer... 🙏❤️🔥 @campglownc @our_family_tale @marthapell @dardraper @andrew27604 #goloveotherswell

A closer look at the POPS' Project church in Ukraine...Started 1 year ago, on Father's Day... @sergey_lysak asked me to share the needs...and I wanted you to see the progress/ where it is at! ❤️ Here's a message from Sergey: Helping Moschun Church Take Its Next Step: God has been doing beautiful things through Moschun Church, and we are so close to making it a fully functioning space for worship, prayer, and community. But we need some help to cross the finish line. Here’s what’s still needed: 1. Inside walls need to be installed 2. Drywall is needed for one of the containers 3. A toilet and shower must be added 4. Ceilings still need to be finished 5. Lamps, switches, and proper lighting are needed 6. Concrete is needed for the outside yard Altogether, the estimated cost for completing this is between $10,000 and $12,000 — though this is just an approximation. If you feel led to pray, give, or simply share this need with others, it would mean the world. Let’s help complete this place where lives are being touched and God is being glorified. 💒❤️ Give at glowmission.org fund: Pops' Project

2 Powerful Ways to Honor Your Father This Father’s Day 💙⁣ ⁣ Today marks ONE YEAR since we launched Pops’s Project—a mission to build a church in the midst of a village in Ukraine destroyed by war...in honor of my dad, a man who loved building churches & seeing God’s Kingdom grow. While the church structure now stands in the heart of the village, we still need a few thousand dollars to finish the inside walls and outside grounds. ⁣ Give a gift to complete this iFather’s House in Ukraine, by visiting GlowMission.org → Giving Fund → Pops’s Project.⁣ ⁣ Another great way to honor a father’s legacy would be by giving to Camp GLOW Facilities—our domestic mission base / camp in North Carolina that’s helping raise up a new generation in a culture to GO LOVE OTHERS WELL. Repairs are desperately needed, and your gift will directly support creating a space where children experience the Father’s love firsthand.⁣ ⁣ Donate today at GlowMission.org → Giving Fund → Camp Glow Facilities.⁣ ⁣ Happy Father’s Day to all the dads, granddads, mentors, and spiritual fathers out there. Let’s honor them by sowing into the Father’s heart—for the nations, and for the next generation.⁣ ⁣ #FathersDay #PopsProject #CampGlow #GoLoveOthersWell #GlowMission #FathersHeart @campglownc @dardraper @sergey_lysak @andrew27604

These pics were posted by one of our team members in Kyiv... @sergey_lysak 's voice on video at end... about a neighborhood very similar to the one our team lives in...that we used to live in outside of Kyiv.... This bombing happened Sunday. It hasn't stopped. Our compassion can fatigue, but these innocent people who are just trying to live life in the country they were born in, need hope, prayers and practical help. Please continue to pray & care...May God increase our capacity to love & show us what to do in the midst of the awful destruction caused by man and the evil forces that drive them. We are in a war of our own. #goloveotherswell glowmission.org

Sergey met with Thomas today! So exciting what is happening to get waterproof bibles in the hands of solders on the frontlines of Ukraine. Give towards this project at glowmission.org (select donate now, fund is Warrior Bible project)

We just had...the BEST day at the 7th annual GLOW GOLF tournament!! Perfect weather...Wonderful group of golfers...Just feeling so happy and grateful for EVERY sponsor, golfer, volunteer, raffle item donated! 😊⛳️THANK YOU EVERYBODY!!! You help us keep GLOWING!! ❤️🔥🌏 #goloveotherswell

Aw!!! Grandma Olga got to see he picture @marthapell drew of her today!! She is the sweetest thing!! Hear her voice on the video attached and pray for Grandma Olga and all of our grandmas today!! ☺️🙏❤️ We love you @maksim_dyomkin @lenadyomkina @tatyana.salevon and Sasha Salevon for how beautifully you serve them!! James 1:27❤️🔥

It's that time of year again where you can GLOW through GOLF!! 🔥⛳️We LOVE our annual tournament and all of our golfer friends and those who sponsor and come out!! It's always so much fun! Check out our link in bio or comments to sign up as a golfer, sponsor or to help! All proceeds benefit our mission locally and internationally as we "GO LOVE OTHERS WELL." Please spread the word to your golfer friends! It's gonna be a GREAT event!! 🏌️‍♂️#goloveotherswell #golftournament

In October of 2020, I got Covid while in Ukraine by myself. This was a little scary, as I found out right before I left Kharkiv to take a 12 hour train ride to Odessa...It was not the best of circumstances, but this "angel"...that I had never met...showed up at the train station to help me. (Pic 2) Despite the language barrier, the wreck we got into in a taxi (brakes went out), and other horrendous obstacles that day, Oleh was the sweetest guy and took care of this "stranger"...me...making sure I got settled into quarantine with everything needed. ☺️ Oleh is one of the kindest most servant hearted Ukrainians I know. He works with youth and children primarily, leads worship and helps with all kinds of outreaches to orphans, war afflicted people, soldiers, and homeless. I will put a letter from him in the email tomorrow, but please consider joining Oleh's team to pray for him or support him. See link in IG bio or FB commons. You will surely be blessed for being part of his life, as he is SUCH a tremendous blessing who truly knows how to #goloveotherswell ☺️❤️ @oleh.hrinkov @the_glow_mission

Legacy of Love Week 4❤️: Meet Ira and Oleksiy (Losha/Alexey ☺️) Ah!! These two! I’m so excited to introduce you to the ones I call “Sergey’s Team,” who lead the rebuilding work (Tiny Home Installations/Church building work) and humanitarian aid efforts we are associated with. They have remained in Ukraine to lead this work and live in the house we lived in. When we go back to Ukraine, it’s so nice to go back “home” and be with this team. Ira is Sergey’s right-hand administrator, and her husband, Losha, carries out many tasks, always with a huge, warm smile… 😊 Here’s a closer look at what they do… Oleksiy and Ira Volkotrub Oleksiy Homes of Hope • Installation of houses (leveling, cleaning the territory). • Purchasing furniture and components for the house. Assembling furniture and installing it in the house. • Communicating with war-affected people, assessing damaged areas, and praying for them. • Traveling to Kharkiv, Kherson, Mykolaiv, and other regions for house installations. Humanitarian Aid • Purchasing and assembling food kits. • Distributing food kits to affected families. • Assisting the military by distributing food, blankets, and hygiene items. • Participating in construction work at Moshchun church. • Maintaining the team house. Ira Ministry Administration • Handling documentation (Homes of Hope agreements, acts of transfer of humanitarian aid, team accounting). • Communicating with suppliers. • Interacting with war-affected people, gathering all necessary documentation. • Liaising with foreign sponsors. • Preparing reports. • Translating for the team and foreign guests. BEST TRANSLATOR EVER!!!! ❤️ • Purchasing, assembling, and distributing food kits. • Ministering at children’s summer camp and Alfa course in Hostomel church. Their prayer needs will be posted in Friday’s recap email. Please consider joining their prayer team—see the link in bio or comments to sign up. We love you two, Ira & Losha… and the way you #goloveotherswell ❤️🔥

Back at the beginning of the century...before Instagram collages, we had to make our OWN Valentines and mail them out! 💌😍...So here's to the Spirit of Valentine's Past...and all the pics you WOULD have seen of my beautiful babies if IG had been around in 2003! 😅❤️ I LOVE YOU!! More love to come from the Drapers... 🥰😘❤️ #hapoyvalentinesday #ilovelove❤️

Men!! You are invited to join REFIREMENT CLUB at Camp GLOW, starting THIS Thursday, January 16....and every Thursday from 9AM until lunchtime... We'll start the morning with coffee and a devotional moment with Camp Pastor Tony Wagoner, then spend a few hours in the great outdoors preparing the ground for God to move in the lives of those who come to Camp GLOW!! This is for anyone who can come... especially those who have the time and are looking for fellowship while serving God and others! Hope to see you this Thursday or any Thursday in the near future! Let's use our abilities and time to #goloveotherswell 🔥 @campglownc @our_family_tale @andrew27604

There is still time to sign up! Our GLOW Gala is Friday, October 25th at the new venue, 601 Milestone in Concord. Sergey Lysak from Ukraine will speak, bringing us an inspiring word on peace in the midst of chaos. Come celebrate 7 years of GLOW and join us in the journey ahead as we continue to "Go Love Others Well...your Family, your Neighbor, your World." There is a lot of darkness out there that needs the light you carry. Let's GLOW together! 🔥❤️🌎 Link to register in IG bio.

Happy GLOW Day!! 🔥❤️🎉 7 years ago today, a mission was launched... fueled by the love and support of people (like you) who know how to "Go Love Others Well." I hope you all are happy today... completely blessed by God with deep joy, because you have brought a lot of joy, opportunity, provision and LOVE to God's kids, young and old, all over the world. 🌏 Happy GLOW Day, everybody!! Let's keep on GLOWing and loving our families, our neighbors & our world together, another 7 years more! 🔥❤️ #goloveotherswell glowmission.org

We love western NC...it was our college home & where we got married...❤️ So awful seeing the devastation there...In thinking of the best way to help, I reached out to our friends JD Smith and Toni Maddox Smith with CitiIMPACT...They are a disaster relief organization we have partnered with before and they are legit and set up to make things happen. I asked Toni how we could best help/point others in the best direction and she said "Thank you Dar. We work in semi load increments. We have warehouses of supplies donated. Many are on the road. What we need is funds for shipping. Also contacts in mountains for distribution. We have a campground in black mountain as a staging area and another south of asheville. Sending in big generator and fuel truck. We also have a partner who does meals and have had national guard shuttling in past so hope that works. It is so sad and so massive." They have warehouses of new/needed supplies that are palletized, ready to go. So they need donations for fuel and contacts of those who need help. Please give to http://Citiimpactm.org/give-financially and let's keep praying for our friends and family in Western NC 💔🙏 https://citiimpact.org/give-financially/ Also, Toni asks for contacts, friends who have key churches in zone or in safe zone in striking distance willing to help with distribution when time comes. That means fork lifts/warehouses/shuttling hotel meals and supplies, etc.

On October 1, 2017 we (together) launched The GLOW Mission, our mission being to Go Love Others Well...igniting lives and launching destines and to fulfill the Great Commission through the greatest commandment..."to love..." God & others with "all..." For seven years you have fueled this mission with your love, giving, prayers, sometimes even tears, and going with us! Enjoy looking back with us over the next few weeks as we prepare to launch into the NEXT season of ministry, still doing the GREATEST thing God asked us to do in this very dark world 🌏...be the light...LOVE...GLOW...to Go Love Others Well! You are also invited to celebrate and launch with us into the next seven years at our GALA Friday, October 25th at the new 601 Milestone Venue in Concord. Click linktree in bio of IG or message Dar for more info.... We want you to GLOW with us! 🔥❤️🌏 Your light and love can change the world! glowmission.org PS...Please RSVP through the link or to Dar for Gala by October 11th. #goloveotherswell 🔥

We are GROWING & GLOWing!!🔥❤️ We are thrilled to announce that God has added to our GLOW Family and is expanding our capacity to Go Love Others Well across the world!   We want to welcome Petr and Klara Boudny and their family aboard as GLOW Missionaries to the Czech Republic.   Petr and Klara have 5 children (ages 5-14), Viktorie, Chloe, Timea, Jeremias, Zoe and Aurora, and live in a town called Turnov, one hour north of Prague.   For the last nine years (2015-2024) they have worked as area directors of Young Life in North Bohemia, and for the 11 previous years they were pastors and church planters.  From 1999- 2015 they helped with the Service Projects of Club Beyond (Military Community Youth Ministries) for hundreds of US military teens in Czech, Slovakia and Romania. At the beginning of the war in Ukraine (Feb. 2022), God led them to start helping our dear common friends, Sergey and Vika Lysak, with humanitarian needs and other ministry efforts in Kyiv.   Petr and Klara will continue supporting this work in Ukraine while expanding their mission in Czech to disciple and develop a new generation of young Christian leaders and young families in what is considered the most atheistic country in Europe. The Boudny's will receive their support now through the GLOW Mission, and we will partner with them in prayer and support as they pour into these established relationships and continue equipping young believers to be the light and glow across their country, Europe and the world.   Please cover this young family in prayer.  They are awesome!!  You can give to their ministry through their missions fund at glowmission.org.  🔥❤️

So thankful for a few days to rest...in such a beautiful place...with such beautiful people...on my way home ☺️ Went to the most southern point in the US today...then the green sand beach...followed by an evening visit to a black sand beach...Wow...what beauty all around...I kept telling God all day what a good job He did! 😊 #feelinglovedwell #andalittleburned 😅 #worthit🌴❤️🌊 (Thank you, Max and Karina!!! I'm so happy! ☺️)

Meet Yulia!! Ending this trip to the Philippines and kicking off 7 weeks of celebrating 7 years of GLOW...highlighting what God has done along with some people He has loved on and through over these 7 years...So let's get this party started with my dear Yulia!!! 😊❤️🙌 #goloveotherswell 🔥 glowmission.org

HUSBAND!!! It's our anniversary and we're not together!!! 😩💔...but really, we are!! ❤️☺️ 32 years of being your "Onesie"😅..."Bearzes, "Petunia," "Nee Nee" and all the other crazy nicknames you've called me over the years...These pics...from our last trip show the many sides to our relationship... so much silliness and laughter...yet so many sober, serious realities we've had to work through together...and so much mutual care for our precious "others" God has blessed us with. Husband, we are 12 hours apart right now...I'm literally on the other side of the world from you, but there is no one on the planet that I am more "one" with!! Thank you for being exactly the husband you are to me... You take such good care of me...you let me be completely who I am and you cheer me on....and you make me laugh so very hard! 😂😉❤️...I love you. I'm so glad I married you even though you copied someone else's vows... 😅😂...You are my favorite. I'm glad we had an early celebration in Poland, but let's celebrate again when I get home...You're a pretty big deal...and deserve to be celebrated 😉 Happy Anniversary, Husband... @andrew27604 ...I'm so glad I married YOU!! ❤️☺️ Photo creds (for some of the really good ones 😅) @nealebaylyrides ☺️❤️🇬🇧

Shine Your Light as you support GLOW Summer Missions!! ☀️✈️🌍 This summer we are GLOWing farther than ever before, shining our light in NEW places as we to continue to heed the call to "Go Love Others Well!" Several from our team will be ministering and training in Ukraine, the Philippines and other countries along the way! We are particularly focused on CHILDREN of the world with a new project launching this year.... Will you support our team's summer missions with a gift to help us GO? We will "gift you back" with one of our brand new t shirts designs!!! Check them out donate/order your gifts at https://linktr.ee/glowmission #goloveotherswell 🔥

Oh my heart!! ❤️🇺🇦 This is an overdue post due to my writing work keeping me in my “cave” this past week…BUT my heart could EXPLODE 💥over what God is doing in Ukraine through our team there…with CHILDREN!!! So many little stories within this, but my “home church” in Hostomel Ukraine, where by God’s goodness we were able to put in a children’s building this year, hosted their first summer camp this week! Two of my orphan grads, Diana and Vanya were ALSO involved in leading which made Mama Dar SO proud!! 🙂 Take a look at the joy and beauty of it all…and remember….these kids live with hearing sirens EVERY DAY, and many of them have had their homes blown up…and are now living in the tiny homes YOU and givers around the globe have provided so they have shelter. But here they are being introduced to HIM..our God, their true “Hiding Place of Safety”…Strong Tower…Refuge….This is how Ukraine will change. Through the hearts of its children turning to God’s righteous ways, and not giving in to the corrupt ways of man. Pray with me for this, and REJOICE with me over the salvations and lives turned to God! Can’t wait to HUG these kids in August!! Mama Dar is COMING HOME!!! ❤️🙌✈️🌍🇺🇦 PS...the 9th pic is of Vanya's message to me last week, and the last pic is of him in 2017 at the camp we did at his orphanage ☺️❤️ #goloveotherswell Thank you @iraa_volk Lena, Ira & Yura, @sergey_lysak and all of team and @diasoyfedorenko and @ivan_semonenko ...I love you all!!!!

After a week of GLOWING here domestically 🇺🇸...and igniting a bunch of kids to #goloveotherswell, (more great pics on that to come! )❤️😊 I wanted to take time at the 1/2 way point of 2024 to highlight the 3 things we are focusing on internationally in Ukraine...🇺🇦 THANK YOU for continuing to LOVE the people and children of the world...You'll see the difference you are making as you GLOW! 🔥❤️🌏 glowmission.org

Day 1 of GLOW Camp 2024.... These kids are "SHINING BRIGHT" already! Art! Outdoor Adventure! "Heart & Soul Station" and mascot making group interaction...the BEST counselors and teachers... SO much love flowing at Camp GLOW!! 🙌❤️🔥🥰 #goloveotherswell @camp_glow_nc

Here's to the man who gave me a heart for the nations... ❤️🌍...When I was 8 years old we went to Costa Rica and he built a church in the jungles with our missionary friends... Over the years he built churches in 6 countries, and wanted to do this when he retired. Pops had a car accident which made him unable to fulfill his dream the way he thought, BUT when our dear friend @sergey_lysak spoke of his vision to buy land and build a church for the new believers in Ukraine, I had what I believe was a God idea... 💡 We could buy this land and build this church for $80,000...in honor of my Dad's 80th birthday coming up in November!! If 1000 people bought "bricks" 🧱fo $80 each, we could fund this project, and this church/gathering place for new believers could be built...So many who have had their homes destroyed have come to know God after the "church" (people) responded and provided new homes. Now this new community needs a church home to gather together and celebrate the goodness of God! Will you be a part of "Pops'" Project and fund a brick or 2 to help build the kingdom on the other side of the world? I bought the first one as my dad's Father's Day gift...to honor my dad and Father of us all! 😊 We officially launch today... through November 24th. You can give at glowmission.org and "donate" under the fund "Pops' Project." Check out the video and details on our projects page... Let's build something that lasts together...and honor our Father! ❤️ #goloveotherswell @david.scholl.779 PS... message me with your address and I'll send you a "brick" card and info. 🔥

While taking my evening walk today, I was struck by the beauty of this wheat field that I hadn't noticed before...because I decided to "walk a little further" tonight. As I gazed at this field...so close to home, yet never known by me, I was struck by some words a spiritual mentor of mine recently reminded me of... "keep your eye on the harvest..." At the time I was seeking ministry advice from him. There are so many needs...so many people asking for help... I was distraught over what to do...who to help...when to say yes or no, and he encouraged me to "keep my eye on the harvest." There are endless needs in the world, but what is of eternal value? People...and their stressed out, anxious, depressed and/or lost souls... God wants His kids back... to restore and bless their lives with the joy and peace they truly long for. To tend to the harvest is to see them...each single stalk...and see the value of each life, returned to "the Lord of the harvest"...and see all of the future harvest possible through each seed within them... 🌾 I want everything I do to yield maximum glory for God...I make it my aim to please Him. I know what it feels like to want your kids back... I can't imagine the heart of our very good Father...and how He longs for the millions of His who turn their face from Him to run on their own manmade roads... I'm keeping my eye on the harvest, and praying, as Jesus requested in Matthew 9:38, "The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field". In all we do, let us consider the eternal value of it...let's get out in those fields...nearby and around the world...and #goloveotherswell in the uniquely beautiful ways we were all designed to. I'm right there with you! 🙏❤️🔥🌾

Tomorrow is the last day of the first year of creative classes at Camp GLOW. I get to watch a dream of my heart happen before my eyes, a dream realized through the like-hearted dreamers, Lauren and Tony Wagoner, our camp director and pastor who tend to people with the kind of sincere love so rare, I’m challenged every time I’m around them. They have led teachers, young and “aged” with experience ;), with grace and such honor….and there is so much joy ALWAYS at camp. I’m in awe of the type of community that is being realized at Camp GLOW at Cedar Grove…It’s got me overflowing with continual gratitude every time I drive down that gravel road…. Tomorrow I get to watch a play written and directed by one of “my own” 🙂 Ella Cate Smith, who I have known since she was 2…She taught drama this year. SHE deserves her own post (wait till tomorrow… 🙂 ) With all that goes on with GLOW, I haven’t done the “heavy lifting” as far as teaching or running things at camp. That is for THIS generation, and I’m enjoying my season of oversight and pioneering new aspects of our mission to “Go Love Others Well” (MUCH more on this later!) But the fact that the dreams of my heart are being DONE by OTHERS in a way BEYOND my expectation...well, it makes me feel really loved by my Father. He has heard my heart all these years, and He is true to His promises…and surprises us beyond them! Someday soon I’ll write or talk more about “Camp GLOW” and how it carries the heartbeat of our mission. But for now, I just want to thank Pastor Tony “Little Kenny” :), Dearest Lauren, Martha (for always supporting this crazy dreamer with all her skills to implement the vision) and ALL the teachers who have made this first year of classes SO SPECIAL!!! I can’t wait for Summer Camp!! (And yes, I WILL be involved with THAT…. (Shout out to BEE CREATIVE!!!! WOO-HOO!!). I’m getting teary now…Just so…Thankful!! @camp_glow_nc @the_glow_mission @our_family_tale @ella.catheryn 🔥❤️

Come on out to GLOW's home base, "Camp GLOW" at Cedar Grove for our Saturday morning workday, THIS SATURDAY, May 11!! Bring your yard tools, work gloves, etc. and help us "beautify" the land for some great ministry moments we are facilitating this summer!! 3350 Camp Julia Road, Kannapolis, NC!! Sure hope to see you there!! 😊❤️🔥

Link in bio to register! Going to be a great day of golf and fellowship. Have fun playing golf while supporting widows, orphans and our community.

POST Love Week POST!!! ❤️ Ah!! SO much LOVE for LAST week, I'm FINALLY getting to "photo dump" a few faces and moments ...randomly...to highlight and archive this epic week of people and things that happened...that I LOVE!! 😍 1. First...Spontaneous pizza Valentines Day lunch with our Camp GLOW directors... @our_family_tale ...I LOVE these extreme "lovers of others" Tony and Lauren...well, that's Husband in pic one... but 2. This is Lauren who worked TIRELESSLY to get Camp GLOW ready for a FULL session of creative classes that started Friday (pic 3-4) ALL of our campers were SO happy!!! 😊☺️5. A peek at the kick off of "GLOW Ambassadors "...some special loving ladies who want to use what God has deposited in them to Go Love Others Well...💕 6. Kick off of our 2024 Heart Project "ADOPT a Grandma"❤️...10 out of 60 sponsored so far!!! 🎉 7. GLOW bought a VAN our our Hostomel Church in 🇺🇦 to get kids and elderly in particular to church!! 🙌8-10. Our KIDS church in Hostomel is OPEN and in FULL use!!! 🙌🎉🔥❤️😍 It feels like Clubhouse ROCK UKRAINE Edition!! 😅...Makes me so happy!! ❤️ Love is on the MOVE!! It's only growing! Thank you for GLOWing and GROWING with us!! I have a feeling this year is going to BURST with love like no other!! Let's keep going...and in ALL the ways, let's #goloveotherswell 🔥❤️