Visas and Passports have arrived safely, tickets have been purchased, most of our hotel reservations have been made, contact with the church in Moscow has been established and we're looking forward to a gospel meeting effort for the first week, meeting and studying each evening. We're still making contact with the Christians in Tula, hoping and praying that we might be of service and encouragement to them. They lost their meeting place and have had difficulty meeting regularly. We would dearly love to go and hold up their hands in this effort of worship and fellowship.
Lorna and I will be traveling with Vernon and Susan White, and with Shannon and Dana Shaffer. If you'd like another perspective on the trip, you might try Shannon's blog at http shafferlifeline.blog.com. You may be reading this blog because you fellowshipped with us financially and received a little card informing you how to find us. You may be reading this because you love the Lord, are friends with someone here, or even just stumbled across it. Whatever the reason let me tell you that I'm glad you've stopped by for a cup and I'd like to solicit your prayers. Please pray for the saints in Russia who live in a country that is quickly heading back to a 1980's mentality toward religion, politics, and persecution. Please pray for doors to be opened and hearts to be tender so that the word of God might complete the work that God has begun in that place. Oh yeah, and don't forget to mention my traveling companions in your prayers. After all, they're going to need a lot of patience and love to spend over two weeks traveling with me.
And as one little boy was heard to say while being taken out of worship on Sunday morning to receive some corrective discipline to his hinder parts, "Pray for me, pray for me."
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