Greetings All,
Well, as you probably know we are preparing to leave Vancouver and begin the next exciting phase of our journey: traveling to Russia. The past couple of weeks have been an all out sprint to the finish. Last week, we had some wrap-up accountability meetings as well as having a language coach come in to give us some language acquisition tips. He has challenged us to learn 10 phrases we can use when we step off the plane in our new country, so we are working on those and will attempt to recite them in class this coming week. We also did a presentation of a "4 to 8 hour church planting strategy," which gives us things we can do immediately with just 4-8 hours per week (assuming we are spending the majority of our time on language learning). We are also working to get an medical screening for our visa that was just added as a requirement. As far as prayer requests, pray that 1) we will be able to be intentional about engaging people in spiritual conversations even though we are wrapping things up and 2) that our visa gets approved quickly with no complications. Thank you for your continued prayers and stay tuned for more!
