Going Home!

Ok so I have one more afternoon here left. By the time anyone reads this I will be on my way home. Hope you all are sleeping well. This afternoon we are having a picnic and games for teenagers. During that we will be sharing God's love and reaching to more people. Pray that it went well.

Tonight after the picnic we get on a train ride to St. Petersburg. I then go from the train station straight to the airport. I then fly to London stay in a hotel overnight, Praise God for air conditioning! I will be back in the states sunday night at 6 pm. I then go straight to Hume Lake Christian Camps where I will be a high school counselor for one week. Crazy I know. I will be updating my blog while at Hume as well to share what is going on over there. Thank you for reading and praying. It is your prayers that have made this time in Russia what it is. Without youк prayers this would not have worked. THANK YOU!!!!

Prayer Request:
Safe travel home

That all the seeds planted here can be sown

That Jet lag doesnt hit me to hard while at camp and that I have some kind of energy.


Again thank you anв Slava Bogu for all the work that he has done!

So tired!

So the last two days have been long and tiring. This is not going to be very long. Things have been going really well. I have had some more great conversations which has been great. I just got done playing volleyball and now its time for dinner. Thanks for reading this short update haha. Keep praying! We need it.

Jean- Luc

Today was a rough day. I woke up very tired and very lethargic. After I realized that I was just a smidge cranky (and by that I mean a lot) I went off on my own and had a quiet time with God. I read a journal full of inspiring Bible quotes and encouraging words that a friend made for me to read while on my trip. It helped me so much change my attitude and remember why I was here. I also have been going through Daniel again which is just an amazing book.

This morning was very slow due to my bad attitude but this afternoon was great. I met a French couple who are Christian and here on holiday. The husband Jean-Luc is studying to be a pastor and I will be hopefully meeting with them when I go to Paris in October. God has blessed me with them and I cant wait to see what we can do together to further God's kingdom! Praise God! So overall slow day but God taught me a lesson and blessed me. Amen!

Prayer Requests:
Pray that tomorrow I have a better attitude!!!

Pray for more divine appointments

Pray for health, there about 4 sick people on our team right now.

Thank you for your prayers and thoughts. God Bless!

Holy Cow!

Ok where to start. Yesterday before church me and 2 Russian guys from our group went to the store in Petro. On the way back I mentioned that we should evangelize some becasue we had a few hours before church. We talked to 3 people in the first group. One of the people said that he wanted to change his LIFE! we invited him to church and he Came!!!!! So amazing. He spent the whole day with us. Literally all day until about 8 pm. He stayed for lunch and dinner and life was great. Ok so on to group two. I talked to brothers, Andrei and Dennis. Andrei has been in jail for something that he would not share with me. He mentioned that he could not go to heaven because he had to much sin in his life. I shared the gospel with him and Dennis and they were sooo receptive. Praise the Lord. They did not come to know the Lord but they want too want to know more. I am meeting with them later this week, pray that they too may come to know the Lord.

Ok so this morning me and a 2 others again went out to evangelize! So amazing! We met with a few others and had some amazing talks. We met with a boy named Greg and spent the day with him talking about God's love. He had lunch with us and and is still here for dinner. At the park this afternoon we met two girls who played volleyball with us. After volleyball I shared the gospel with them and they seemed very receptive! Again did not come to the Lord but promised to come back tomorrow to learn more. I am so excited for this. Praise God for everything that is happening here! I am so excited for whats going on and for what will happen.

Prayer Requests:
Pray for Andrei and Dennis! That I may get another chance to speak with them and share God's love some more.

Pray for Igor who is alcoholic that came to church sunday.

Pray for the two girls that I shared the Gospel with. Pray that they come back with questions and continue to be open the word!

Pray for more divine appointments!!!!!

Slava Bogu! Praise the Lord for all the work being done here in Petro! One of the hardest places in all of Russia to share God's love!

Petrozavodsk

Ok so I am here in Petrozavodsk. This is the tough week of ministry. The church planter that we are working with has decided to leave the area. This is sad sad news. Julian is an amazing man of God and a great leader. Remember that Petro is one of the toughest places to evangalize in all of Russia. That is why we are here. Praise God for the challenge and Praise God for all the work that will be done in his name this week. Keep us in your prayers and on your thoughts. We traveled 15 hours from pskov to get here and now we have church in like an hour. I am very tired but God gives me strength to move on.

Praise he who is holy, the king of kings, the I am. God protect us this week and use us here as your tools to do your work! Slava Bogu! Praise God!

Prayer Request:
Petro is one of the hardest places to evangelise pray that we can be used this week.

Pray for more energy. We are very tired!

Pray for Julian and his family (the church planter) he is leaving but doesnt know where to yet.



Thank you everyone for your prayers and thoughts. God Bless! Amen!

5 People!

Ok so the final count is that no less than 5 people have commited there lives to Christ this week. Another 4 are expected to be seen in church this Sunday! Slava Bogu!!! This week has seemed soooo long when broken into days but yet seemed so short. I cant believe that my time in pskov is over, off to petrozavodsk tomorrow. This week has been such a blessing from God. I know now that this is what I am meant to do. I want to help the people of Russia the best I can. I have made so many friendships and talked to so many people about God. He has truly blessed me and this trip! Uhhhh I cant even begin to explain the things that God is doing here! I have a long day ahead of myself tomorrow and need some sleep. So good night! I hope to be online in the next couple of days to update somemore. Tomorrow is a 5 hour drive to st. petersburg than a 11 hour train ride to petro. Pray for safe travel and good rest, WE NEED IT! Slava Bogu, Amen!

What a day!

Today has been such an interesting day. First off last night was amazing. We have had 2 people repent so far this week in pskov, and many others have had a seed planted. Praise God for all he has done this week. Today we had a trash pick up and the batoot "jolly jump" was in the courtyard. The kids love the batoot and have never seen one before. This morning was also a great time for sharing God's message with others and just loving on the people of pskov. I am praying particularly hard for a man named Roman. Roman is an alcoholic who believes there is no God. He once was married and was a police man. He and his wife had a child and they lost the child. She divorced him and he began drinking very heavily. His drinking became to much of a problem and he was kicked off the police force. I have grown very close to this man and he says that he normally doesnt get this close with others. I have shared God's love with him but he still doenst want to believe. I pray that Roman can find the happiness that I do in the Lord and come to know his love.

Today after the ministry in the courtyard we went to a very beautiful orthodox monostary. It was kind of weird being there but it was very nice all the same. Me and my loud voice and very loud laugh of course drew a little to much attention to the monks and people in the church. O well, not everyone loves americans. After that we went to someone datcha which is a house outside of the city. At the house we had a bana "sauna" which may have been the hottest I have ever been. At its coolest its was 85 degrees celcius which is about 130 F. Very hot! It was an awesome day and tomorrow we are going to a near by village to do just evangalism! I cant wait! I am so excited and feel so blessed to be here! God is so amazing and great! Slave Bogu "praise God."

Prayer Request:
pray that evangalism goes well in the village tomorrow

Pray for Roman that he may come to know the Lord

Pray for Jim as he is not sleeping well (my boss)

Pray that God blesses pskov and the ministry here.


Praises:
2 people have come to know the Lord this week. Slava Bogu!!!!!

ok well its 11:20 here at night and I am tired. I probably wont be able to update until Sunday so good night and be in prayer for us! Amen!

Slava Bogu! "Praise God!"

God is so amazing! Tonight I had the opportunity to share my testimony with around 50 people. Many Russians were able to hear the gospel which is just soooo great! Tonight we had our first concert and testimony time and God did some great things. As a group we had many conversations with people about the Gospel and I myself talked to 3 people. It is truly amazing the things that can happen with just a little bit of prayer. Thank you again everyone for all of your prayers and thoughts. Uhhhhhhh God is so great! I cant even put into words the things that he is doing here. Tomorrow morning I will wake up at 7 and then start my day and probably end around 10 pm. The days are long but totally worth it! Tomorrow will be another day of work in the courtyard and another concert at night. Pray that things go well!

Slava Bogu!

Praises:
Many russians heard the gospel tonight.

As a group Good granted us many divine appointments!

Prayer Requests:
Please pray that the people who we talked to tonight continue to think about gospel and will accept Jesus into their hearts.

Pray for energy! We are all very tired.

Pray for more divine appointments!

So Tired!

Thank you everyone for your prayers. Getting internet access isnt so hard. Finding time to get on the computer is the hard part. Things are going great! I spoke yesterday morning at the sunday service. I think things went really really well. We traveled to pskov saturday and sunday was service and hang out. There are russians from the united states who traveled here to help us! Slava Bogu! Which means praise God! Each day here feels as though it were a week! I am in constant prayer for energy and good descions as a co leader of this team. God is truly amazing and has blessed this ministry. Today (monday) we are painting childrens eqipment, building benches, having a childrens ministry, and WE HAVE A JOLLY JUMP! So awesome. God is so great to have blessed us with something like that. It is attracting many people over to us and we are trying to minister to all the people. I keep saying it but God is just so amazing. I need to get back to work but keep praying!

Prayer Request:
Our trip to petrozavodsk is getting somewhat tricky. I cannot go into details but be in prayer that God's plan come to fruition.

Pray for energy for the team

Pray for strength

God Bless everyone and I hope things in the states are going ok!

Russia!!

Wow! I just spent 10 minutes at an internet cafe trying to make teh page english so i can read! Russia is absolutely amazing! Where to start??? First off my first flight was wicked awesome. Taking off is by far my favorite, my first thunder storm in a plane def not my favorite! It's 3:11 pm here right now which makes it 4:11 am over there. So, good morning to you! I am currently in st petersburg. We got here about 11 pm and the sun was still up, crazy! After we went and got settled in at an orphanage we went and spent a night on the town. So amazing! Today we went tot he Hermitage museum, sooooo beautiful! Tonight we are going on a boat ride through st petersburg's canals and rivers. Tomorrow morning we leave for Pskov. I am so excited to see what God has in store for me and the team! Slava Bogu which means PRAISE GOD!!! Thank you God for safe travels thus far.\


Prayer Request:
Good spirits and servants hearts for the team
safe travel to pskov
divine appointments



i miss everyone already in the states but am having just so much fun. Thank you everyone for everything and def thanks for your prayers!

God Bless!

Hi ho hi ho off to the airport we go! Please pray for a safe flight! All prayers are appreciated and thank you again for all of your support.

Packing at 3 Am

Tired! O how Tired! I have been packing for the last few hours and am now finishing up some laundry. Seeing as how it is 3am that means I LEAVE TOMORROW!!!! I am super excited. God is so great! Yes I am using tons of !!!!! I cant put into words how great and amazing He is. Please continue your prayers for me and the team. I have listed some specific prayer request below.

Prayer Requests:
Safe Travel- many of us will be taking off tomorrow or in the days following. Please pray that things run smoothly at the airport and that we can arrive safely in St. Petersburg.

Divine Appointments- Please Please pray for divine appointments!

Work- While in Pskov and Petrozavodsk we will be doing work such as painting and planting. Please pray that we may all have a servants heart.


Those are just a few minimal prayer requests. Now many people have asked what it is that myself and the team will be doing in Russia. I have listed that below.

Pskov: While in Pskov (just a few hours south of St. Petersburg)we will be painting childrens equipment and planting trees during the day. During the night we will have a time of worship and time for testimony and teaching. During the day we also will be praying for divine appointments and hoping that God blesses us with them.

Petrozavodsk: While in petrozavodsk we will again be doing some work during the day. We also will be playing sports with the youth. In the evening we will be having more time of worship and a time of teaching and testimony.

I wish I could say more but I am sooo tired and need to finish packing. While in Russia I hope to be updating this blog daily with the days events and more prayer requests. God Bless!

Psalm 27:1 "The Lord is my light and my salvation- So why should I be afraid? The Lord is my fortress protecting me from danger, so why should i tremble?"

God is so amazing! It is so important to remember to be in His fortress, to have all of our trust in Him. Why be scared? Why worry? Why tremble? Praise God for all that He is! Praise Jehovah Sidkenu for his rightousness and love.

Father God protect me and the other team members while away doing your work. Please give us the gift of safe travel and the obeidience to follow your will. Father provide us with divine appointments and have your words flow through us. Use us o Lord and fill us with your spirit. Thank you Father for all you have given us. Amen.

Russia Posting 1

While in Russia I will be blogging as much as I can. I hope to be able to share what is going on and how God is using me and the team I am with. I will be posting activities, scripture, prayer, and praises. Thank you for all of your support!

Psalm 18:1-2
"I love you Lord; you are my strength. The Lord is my rock, my fortress, and my savior; my God is my rock, in whom I find protection. He is my shield, the power that saves me, and my place for safety."

Prayer: Hear me O Lord! Protect me from evil. Extend your hand of protection over me and keep me from harm. Allow me to grow in these trials and find great joy! You are the shield in which I hide behind when danger is near, you are the light I run towards when all seems dark. You are so gracious and loving and I am so undeserving. Thank you for the great sacrifice you made for me and all of men. I praise you for all that I have and am truly blessed to be called your child. Though the ground quakes below my feet it because of your great love that I stand firm. Thank you O Lord, thank you El-Olam. Your love is everlasting and never ceasing. I am so unworthy. Thank you for the gift of grace in which you gave me with great sacrifice. I love you!

Russia is 14 days away! I am so excited and so scared! There is much work to be done and so little time left to do it. Below is a list for prayer requests. Please be praying!

Prayer Requests:

Funds for the team- I have all the funds that I need, although many on the team are still short.

Strength- As time closes in Jim and myself are working hard to tie up all the lose ends.

Attack- Satan is attacking! Please pray for the team! We are all being attacked somewhere. Be it health, finances, energy. Please pray! Please pray!

May God Bless you and I thank you for your prayer and support!