We made it!

Shannon will be posting on our blog for us the rest of the trip, but since I had the opportunity I wanted to let everybody know that we made it just fine. We are getting ready to go have breakfast and then we will be off on a tour of Moscow.

Watch out Customs

I (Shannon) had the privilege of spending time with the Russia team before they left for Russia. It was so encouraging to see all the supplies people have donated... God blessed Mike by having a gentleman donate 24 ultimate dics, some little girls from a church back east collected socks, and there's all the craft supplies people were so generous to donate. I think they had around 3 bags of just craft supplies. God is so good and faithful!

People around here are all in high spirits! It's been encouraging to see God work in each of these people's lives and see how excited they are to serve the Russian people.

Please pray:

• They will be able to get their 13 bags through customs and they won't be lost.

• The team will adjust quickly to the time change.
  

• They will get some rest while traveling.

• They will have time to prepare for the kids.

• Pray for each of the kid's heart to be prepared to hear God's word.
  

Signing out!

Skit for camp

Our group has been working on a skit for while we are in Russia. It is based on a skit we saw on youtube. (you can see a similar skit if you go to www.youtube.com and search for "lifehouse everything skit") The skit is coming along well and we are excited about it. Please pray that we would able to preform the skit well, but even more importantly that God would use it in the life of the Russian youth.

This is for Anna

We got your note and thought of this picture. We will see you soon!

I'm a little late in putting this up, but.....

...it's better late than never.

This was one of the obstacles that we had to do for a ropes course we went to in Twin Falls. The goal is to get everybody over the 14 foot wall. We will be putting one of this up for the youth in Tambov.

p.s. Our whole team did make it over the wall!!

Mike H's knee surgury

Mike had knee surgury on Tuesday and it went well. He is at home recovering, but will still be able to go with us to Russia. We are excited that Mike is still able to go with us.

Praise God for our support!

It has been really encouraging to see how God has made a way for us to go to Russia. We have really been blessed with the generosity of people giving to our ministry. We have raise enough money to cover the cost of our trip and also money to help send Russian youth to camp.
We leave for Tambov in two weeks and still have lots of work to do. Please pray for us and our preperations.