Camp
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 [...]
This was nice: All Nations Church had their camp at Elama last week. They posted this picture online with the following message – We would like to thank Michael and Olga Cantrell and Sergey Tovstopyat for help in providing the place for this wonderful camp. We were truly blessed, we had a good time in [...]
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I’m in Estonia now, doing a little work on our ministry flat and taking care of some personal business and program work. I visited Camp Gideon over the past few days and took this picture of one of the main buildings that overlooks the Gulf of Finland. It’s beautiful here this time of year.
In early 2008, I was offered some land and old buildings in Russia to use as a Christian Camp. This has become known as Camp Elama. For the past three summers, we’ve been fixing it up and have hosted many camps there. This fall is the first time we’re also having ‘non-summer’ camps. Hopefully we’ll [...]
A team from St. James United Methodist Church in Athens, GA arrived today. We drove over to Dubrovnik, Croatia to pick them up. We’ll be in Podgorica, Montenegro for a couple of days and then head up to the mountains to run a youth camp all next week. They are a great group and we’re [...]
The Great Tree at Elama met its demise –
Here are recent pictures of our camp. We have about 30 children from the far north, from a town named Novodvinsk. As you can see, they are making use of the new buildings, and we continue to add more facilities. Now we need a good well, since the water supply is not reliable. I leave [...]
Here are some pictures from the last few days at Elama. The kids arrived for camp yesterday, so we should have pictures of camp soon. I enjoyed building some tables and benches, and Sergei finished up the cook stove in the summer kitchen. We also had quite a few people from Christ for the World, [...]
I just returned from a very fruitful trip to Montenegro, where we hosted a team from St. James United Methodist Church in Athens, GA. Our relationships continue to deepen in Montenegro and the work is expanding. I was involved in three main areas: First, we ran a teen camp. We had more campers this year [...]
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