Tonya has taken a short trip to her parent’s
home so as to gather some documents we need. Russia does seem
to be the land of documents, and American requires some too.
However, it means Tonya gets to see her folks, and she hasn’t
seen much of them for quite a while. So maybe it’s a good thing
(a God thing) that she needed to take a trip to Novokuznetsk.
Novokuznetsk is about half-way from Khabarovsk to Moscow, which
means it’s about 2,000 miles away from here. Russia sure is a
big country.
Even without Mama being around, ministry
continues. Attendance last week for “game night” was just about
an overflow crowd. The fellowship was great. We had a good mix
of orphan graduates, foster families, and helpers.
Life Skills classes continue as well.
Despite some difficulties, orphans continue to come to the
lessons.
Knowing how to prepare fish is an important
life skill, don’t you think?
Team assignments help too.
We’ve even taken a “field trip” to another
location and had a different set of skills developed. Below you
see a lesson on how to work with and cut glass.
It’s been a bit strange jumping into full
time ministry work just a couple months ago, and now needing to
prepare to return to the States this summer. Please pray that
we can get all the details straight. One of the details that
we’re needing to take care of is getting a visa to America for
Diana. We’re still working on getting her U.S. citizenship
(quite a slow process), so we’ll need to get her a visa to the
States before she can come. Please also pray that our speaking
schedule at churches will be full, and that there be clear
communication with the churches as well.
We’ve been having some problems with links to
our web site. For now the link is http://101649.agwebservices2.org/
Here’s a few other interesting links:
A really good short film from the Russian
Orthodox point of view.
Meteorite over Russia
World opinion of the U.S.
Russian Internet responses to…various
things…kinda different…
Russian car cams
May the Lord be with you!
In Christ,
Cecil, Tonya, Timothy, Vera and Diana
