Love
Yesterday, after two very good and full weeks, we said our goodbyes to a team from Athens, GA. Most of the team members were from the Wesley Foundation at the University of Georgia. Jane Kilgo, from St. James UMC in Athens, GA, also joined the team. The team is pictured above with the Kid’s Club [...]
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Olga and I have three young ladies from our church staying with us, Zhenya, Anna and Natasha. I’ll post some pictures of our ‘new family’ soon. Natasha works at Crimson Sails, a Christian children’s shelter. Here’s one story of the way the Lord uses His people to save the lost. This is from Street Cry’s update [...]
Today, as I was gathering photos for the site, I ran across this picture. I proposed to Olga in the garden at dacha. It was her grandmother’s birthday, August 28, and we were there to celebrate with her. Earlier that morning Olga and I both felt God’s clear call for us to be married (that [...]
Once again we welcome Russian orphans to stay with host families in the US for Christmas. This year we brought the most ever: forty eight children arrived on Tuesday night. Actually, the children arrived in Atlanta at 3am on Wednesday, since their plane was delayed by several hours by the bad weather in New York. Pictured [...]
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Do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by Him. For those whom the Lord loves, He disciplines. (Hebrews 12:5,6) A theme for me over the past few years has been Discipline. The word has always had a negative connotation for me; to be disciplined was a bad [...]
In my daily life with the Lord I find that the part I enjoy most is worship. I am the kind of person who enjoys peaceful and simple songs that speak directly to God and not just about Him. In my prayer time I like to have a tape with a couple of songs that [...]
Watch over your heart with all diligence, for from it flow the springs of life. ~Proverbs 4:23 We all are vulnerable to influences and actions that turn our hearts from goodness and purity. Some come from inside ourselves, and others from outside: keeping bad company, reading newspapers or magazines, a favorite TV show, daydreaming, certain [...]
[originally posted in 2001] I met Paulina during the summer of 2000 in one of the non-ambulatory wards at the children’s home in Pavlovsk. She is ten years old, with severe cataracts–as far as I can tell she can see when the light changes but can not see any distinct forms. She does not speak; [...]
The Love of the Lord
But then God looks us right into the eyes and says: Please, could you just love Me the way you did it first? Could you again do the things you did first? I love you.
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