Russia
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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Here are some haunting and beautiful pictures of old estate houses in Russia. Many are far in the country where very few people now go. What treasures they are –
By Le Ann Dakake, director of New Horizons for Children, a hosting program for Russian orphans – In the fall of 1986 a baby boy, Valera Pavlov, was born to a young married couple in the small village of Chubaksari, Russia. He was the 2nd child born of their 3 children and everyone was quite [...]
Interfax Reports: Fans greeted each other on Easter at a Sunday evening soccer match at Moscow Lokomotiv stadium. At the beginning of the second half of the match thousands of fans of Dynamo team started chanting “Christ is Risen!”, an Interfax correspondent reports. Thousands of fans of Lokomotiv teeam on the opposite side of the [...]
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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 [...]
Camp Elama is slowly thawing out; Spring is here, yet the snows remain and our work preparing for the summer has begun. We have a good leadership team in place and exciting plans for the summer. Back in December Sergei and John laid foundations for two new buildings, and in May and June we’ll have [...]
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. [...]
Zhenya Kopushu is one of the young ladies who lives with us in Russia. She’s working in a hospital for abandoned children. She is praying about being one of the counselors when we build Immanuel Children’s Home (more about that later). Below is some news from her from our church’s website. NEW MINISTRY – TO [...]
Unfortunately, this happens all too often in St. Petersburg when the government sends crews to clear the ice and snow off of rooftops. The windshield of our van was broken this way (though the glass didn’t cave in), and the government workers made no effort to avoid the problem or pay for breaking the glass. [...]
