Elama
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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Winter has arrived in St. Petersburg. We’ve had quite a bit of snowfall over the past few days (see our car below). The city is beautiful as we continue to press on in our life and work. Here is an update about a few items – MIR hopes to send 39 children on the hosting [...]
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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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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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