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 [...]
Our apologies to anyone who visited our site over the past few days. We got spammed. Thomas Umstattd worked for many, many hours to fix the problems. Thank you, Thomas. Over the next several days I’ll be working to re-build the site. A few posts have been lost, but overall pretty much everything was preserved. [...]
We arrived in the US about a week ago, just in time for some beautiful spring weather. We are also very thankful to have beat the volcano eruption that has stranded so many people in Russia. Just a week before we arrived in the States, we were in Finland, which was quite a different setting. [...]
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 [...]
Most of the Stoneworks associates and workers are meeting in Tallinn, Estonia for our first annual ministry retreat. I’m the Executive Director, and we’re very glad that we could gather for this meeting. We’re spread out all over Eastern Europe and the Balkans, and this is the first time we’re all together in one place. [...]
About 10 days ago, Olga and I began a road trip from St. Petersburg, Russia to visit Stoneworks ministry sites in eastern and central Europe. Stoneworks continues to expand, and it’s an honor to be able to visit so many wonderful people that God has put together as ‘living stones’ (1 Peter 2:5). Our first [...]
As you can see, this is Olga writing here. Well, I had to be patient and wait five days for the pictures! But today they have finally arrived! I called my sister and heard a great news, that she is already at home with her baby! She did say that she thinks him to be [...]
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This may not look like very much, but it is the fruit of much loving labor and the beginning of something great. This picture was taken recently at Elama, our camp in Russian Karelia. These are part of the foundations of a pavilion and summer kitchen we’ll build next year. St. James UMC in Athens, [...]
We have mentioned this before, and it’s high time to introduce you to Zhenya, Anya, and Natasha. Just about a year ago, we were in the US when three young ladies from our church, on short notice, needed a place to stay for a few weeks. Well, that ‘few weeks’ has turned into a year [...]
