Women's Bible Study 3 and English Club

Continue to pray for Inna (a young woman in the bible study led by my wife Inna) and another young woman who atteneded the study last week, Ira. Both are unbelievers. Pray that God would open their hearts to His wonderful truth. Also, pray for our english club that meets on Wednesday evenings (see pictures above). Last week we had over 15 unbelievers there who heard from the Word. At the end of every English club evening, we do Bible storying. We tell a story from the Bible in simple English and they repeat it back to us in English. We have the Russian translation printed for them in case they don't understand everything. Pray that more than English comes from this, but that the Word would penetrate their souls. Finally, here is a link to a good article on Church planting I thought was good. http://networkedblogs.com/86jdK

Women's Bible Study 2

Continue praying for the bible study Inna is working with. Another woman named Inna says she is searching for God and began crying when they were mentioning prayer requests. Pray that the Lord would open her heart and set her free!!!

Women's Bible Study

Tonight, Inna is hosting her first women's bible study, all Russians of course. They are looking forward to growing together and, most of all, in God. Pray for them!

English Camp 2010

In July Inna and I took part in an English Camp outside of Moscow. Besides English we also play sports, do dramas and share Christ. Sermons are often preached in English and translated into Russian. I am excited to share that over 60 youth and young adults professed Chrsit as their Savior this year!!! Please pray that these are genuine commitments...we know that profession means nothing- only faith and repentance. But at least some hearts have been stirred and their interest in spiritual matters have been piqued! Here are some photos:

Some Notes

Last week we enjoyed meeting with other people from our company who live here in Russia (and a few who live outside) at our annual conference. We were at a retreat center about 150km or so outside of Moscow. Our speaker had many good things to say, here are some of them:

In reaching others, it is important to create liminal space (space in between the lines), where there is mutual interaction bewtween their world and ours. In this space, three things are important to remember:

1. Legitimacy- have a (good) reason to be there
2. Longevity- the need to have repeat conversations...move from microwave to marination
3. Linkage- get to Jesus, his death and resurrection

Throughout this it is important to ask questions. People always answer truthfully (at least on the inside).

Check out more pics!

Here are some pics of what we have been up to in Russia!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/9989850@N04/

Coooollldd!

Well the last few weeks here in Russia have been very cold. Like sub-zero temps. It's actually what I expected, although a lot of people have said that they have had very mild winters here the last few years. Glad I came at the right time LOL. This past week Inna and I have been apart of two summer camp meetings. One involves taking orphans down to the Black Sea for a couple weeks in June and the other involves an helping an English camp outside of Moscow that will be held for 10 days in July (see www.superlager.ru). Both camps have seen spiritual fruit in the past and we pray for the same this year. If you would like to be a part of these ministries and donate your time and/or finances, please contact me for arrangements. It does cost money to get these orphans to camp, so every dollar helps! In addition, we are in great need of English teachers for the English camp, so if you can get on an airplane this summer and donate some of your time working with young adults, that would be great! Here are some photos of an orphanage Inna and I visited back in the fall.