Estonia
Over the past several months, I’ve often said that ‘I may have some good news about Estonia soon’. Well, today I have some good news about our work in Estonia. For over a year now, Stoneworks has been partnering with several people in the US and Estonia to help establish a day center for children [...]
I just read a quote by Peggy Noonan: In Iraq this year I asked an Iraqi military officer doing joint training at an American base what was the big thing he’d come to believe about Americans in the years they’d been there. He thought. “You are a better people than your movies say.” He had [...]
Since our last Postcard we’ve been all over Europe. At the end of August we drove from Russia to Montenegro (you can see a photo record of the trip here). The picture above was taken when we gassed up in Augustow, Poland. We spent almost a month in Montenegro, visiting family, friends and ministry partners. [...]
As I’ve been posting pictures of Montenegro, I realized that people may not know what I really do other than see beautiful places on a regular basis. So, I thought I’d write a note about what I’m up to these days. For those who don’t know, I am the Executive Director of Stoneworks International, a [...]
I (Mike) have just seen the fulfillment of a dream. For the past two years we’ve thought that it would be great to send children from Russia to a Christian camp in Estonia. Well, it’s come to pass: MIR, in partnership with Love Russia UK, have sent 43 foster children and 6 Estonian orphans to [...]
Estonia is dotted with old manor houses. The other day I went for a drive to see the countryside and visit an old manor that caught my interest. This is Hõreda Manor, one of many manors that are now abandoned. The building was finished about in 1810. and was decorated inside with marks and filigranes [...]
We’ve just returned from Estonia where we had a quick visit with a mission team from our home church in Athens, GA. The team is ministering in Camp Gideon, a Christian camp in the shore of the Gulf of Finland. This team is particularly memorable in that my aunt, Judy Cantrell, is a member. That’s [...]
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This involves a bus, a plane, a van and a ferry. It started on Sunday – I’ve been looking to purchase a used mini-van for use as our ministry in Europe expands. Our little red car is getting a little long in the tooth, and I felt that the time may have come to find [...]
I’ve just arrived in Estonia after a very nice drive from St. Petersburg. I took a little video while I was in No Man’s Land on the bridge between Ivangorod, Russia and Narva, Estonia. Two fortresses face one another across the Narva river: on the Russian side Ivanogorod Fortress was built in the 1490s, to [...]
I took a drive along the Estonian coast of the Gulf of Finland, following the old Royal Road, the other day: I made video of this same same road during the winter.
