Greetings from Russia,

Thank you for your prayers, everybody who was sick on our team is feeling well. Please pray for Brittany Linn, she has Thyroid surgery today.

We have been able to build a "Wilson log" course (obstacle course where the kids have to take a log everywhere they go) and the kids are loving it. We took the course that last years team made and made things bigger and harder. There are now two trails up the rock on, with the second one being harder than the first. We are working on a zip-line and had the trial run today. We will have to adjust it to make things faster, but it looks like it will work well (and is safe).

The team has been able to get to know the kids in their tents better and have had opportunities to share the gospel with them. Pray for Sasha and Olga, the seem to have head knowledge of Christ but no heart knowledge. Please pray for the rest of the kids at camp, there are so many that have a really poor home life. Our hearts go out to these kids and we desire to show them the love of Christ.

As we were preparing for this trip we heard that we would be eating a lot of hot dogs, so I (Mike C.) decided to keep track. We have had hotdogs to eat.....only two times. Camp goes until the 22, so we will see how many more times we will have them.

One of our funny quotes (from Mesha one of our translators)
"What kind of animal was that?" "It was a concubine...I mean a porcupine, a porcupine!!!"

In His love,
The Tambov Team

p.s. Carol--Mike's knee is doing really well. He is being really careful and is taking good care of his knee.