First snow!

Greetings Intercessors,
We got our first snow of the fall/winter today! Unfortunately it lasted only a few minutes and I did not even get a picture. We have had an exciting few weeks. We presented the gospel at ESL Bible Study and have a young lady with many spiritual questions. Please pray for Anna, as she is currently reading through the book of John and we hope to be able to address her questions within the next week.

Chara's parents recently made the trip here and we took them to the Altai Mountains for a few days of site seeing. It was great to be able to practice our Russian, and we were able to share God's love with a roadside souvenir vendor and give her a Russian gospel tract.

Here are some pictures from the trip!

Living in the light of the Son!

Greetings supporters,
Thank you so much for your continued prayers. We are seeing God draw many more people to our ESL Bible Study in Akadem. At this point, we are averaging about 20 people per week, although sometimes they are not all the same people. We are excited by the opportunity to teach them English but on an even deeper level to pour the gospel into their lives. Please be in prayer, as next week we plan to do a full fledged gospel presentation. We would like to do several through the course of the semester. Pray that people will hear the message and that they would see the Holy Spirit desiring to work in their hearts and lives.

On another note, Chara and I recently visited a very interesting museum in Akadem with a huge collection of artwork from pre-Christian Russia and other places from around the world. She actually worships the sun. It was quite an interesting afternoon. At the end of our tour through the museum, we got to give her a gospel tract and invited her to our Bible Study.  She evidently read the Bible many years ago, but has no interest now. Our desire is that one day she will walk by the light of the risen Son instead of simply the light of the sun!

It is people like this that drive us to make further progress in language, so we can have the opportunity to share the gospel completely in Russian. Please continue to pray as we press on!