Estonia
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 [...]
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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Olga and I have spent some time in Estonia recently. Dave Hulley (seated at left, below), the board chair of Stoneworks International, was here to learn about our new work. It was good to introduce him to our many new friends in Estonia; Dave then spent time Russia visiting with folks there. This weekend leaders [...]
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We visited Estonia this week and had a great visit. On every visit, more doors open and God reveals more relationships and opportunities to serve. Our primary connection is with Artur and Valya Põld, pictured above as they prepared a GREAT salmon dinner for us. Artur is the pastor of a local Methodist Church and [...]
This morning I took the ferry from Tallinn, Estonia to Finland. Here’s the view of the Gulf of Finland just just as the Helsinki archipelago is coming into view.
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 [...]
Christina Melton, a Stoneworks Missionary, drove with us from Montenegro to our staff retreat in Estonia. Christina writes, “My goal is simply to be obedient to the Lord and wholly submitted to Him, and to do so with joy, and all this within the context of community. I cannot see how such a life would [...]
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. [...]
Here is another great testimony from the work Street Cry is doing in Estonia: We continue to have meetings in a women’s prison every Friday night, preaching the Gospel to the unsaved and equipping the new believers by teaching on the basics of Christian life, praise and worship, prayer, and personal relationship with Jesus. As [...]
Estonia continues to be on our hearts. This fall two of our ministry partners are planning to make trips there to minister to ethnic Russian orphans. We hope the Lord will make a way for us to spend much more time there, but for this fall we are called to spend time in Russia and [...]
