We returned on Sunday to a beautiful St. Petersburg, Russia. The weather has been perfect, and it has been great to start reconnecting with family and friends after such a long stay in the US. Olga took the picture above, in the park across the street from our flat. We are thankful for the many [...]
As many of you know, Elama is our camp in Russia. We’re gearing up for the summer, and a team from Athens, GA returned yesterday from building two pavilions at Camp Elama, in Russia. Click here to see a slide show of their first few days. Pictured above is the large pavilion which will be [...]
Recently in Russia, Lithuanian products bearing a swastika have appeared. A Lithuanian court announced that the swastika is a part of the historic heritage of Lithuania. “It is not a Nazi attribute, but a valuable symbol of the Baltic culture, an ancient sign of our ancestors, which had been stolen from them and treacherously used [...]
Here is another personal testimony from our church, Street Cry, in St. Petersburg. Liza Bachi, 26, recently received her medical degree from a University in St. Petersburg and works as a cardiologist in Mariinskaya hospital of St. Petersburg. God often moves through her in the gift of healing. She has a heart of compassion and [...]
We are actually in the US (in Texas right now), having a great visit with family and friends. We have good news about our embryo adoption. We have finished all the paperwork and have scheduled the transfer for June 4th. If all goes as planned, we’ll return to Russia, pregnant, at the end of June! [...]
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Here is another personal testimony from our church in Russia, Street Cry – We would like to share with you the testimony of a man who graduated from StreetCry School of Ministry. You will see not only how he came out of 18 years of heroin addiction to the saving knowledge of Christ, but also [...]
Here are some haunting and beautiful pictures of old estate houses in Russia. Many are far in the country where very few people now go. What treasures they are –
By Le Ann Dakake, director of New Horizons for Children, a hosting program for Russian orphans – In the fall of 1986 a baby boy, Valera Pavlov, was born to a young married couple in the small village of Chubaksari, Russia. He was the 2nd child born of their 3 children and everyone was quite [...]
Sergei Tovstopyat, John Bull and I went to Camp Elama today to look things over and make a few decisions about the upcoming work. Sergei is building brick stoves in cabins 2 and 3, so we took at look at that work. We also were deciding how to upgrade the water storage system, where to [...]
