Alex and Lilya were married on Saturday. It is truly a match made in heaven, God brought them together from two different parts of the world so they could become one flesh. They both are active in the work of planting churches in 
This is my friend Sasha. He has been coming to the church for about 5 years. Sasha would come and sit in the back and then leave as soon as the service was over. But over the years he has really blossomed and has been a real blessing to our church and the 
Today I was invited to attend the 40th day. It is a tradition of the Orthodox church after the 40th day of the death of a loved one. Olga who is a strong Christian and her mother who is not a believer (yet) invited me to come and enjoy a meal, and to honor papa's death. It was a great opportunity to talk to Mama about death from the perspective of the Bible. Nina (mama) had invited her close friends Alexei and Ryea. And as I began to share scriptures from the Bible Ryea became so interested as if she had never heard the scriptures regarding Jesus. Unfortunately for mama they seemed to overwhelm her and she turned to the vodka for comfort. But Olga spent some more time with Ryea in the kitchen and she repented and turned to Christ. It was so exciting for me to see Olga share the Lord with her. The door is open to continue to meet with Nina, pray that she would find her comfort in the true and living God. (on the photo left to right: Reya, mama, Olechka and her husband Sergey,and Alexei)
You never know who will drop in on you here in Moscow, even on the 26 floor be always ready in season, as my friend did his work out my window, he was able to listen to Pastor Chuck's teaching in the Gospel of John in Russian.Just an update on the Jewish service, we started teaching though the Book of John and it has been a great personal blessing for me. Max and Mira who work with Jews for Jesus in Moscow have done an excellent job in reaching the Jewish community for Christ.
Regarding our search for a permanent place to meet for the church, I believe for now will take a break from our intense searching, and try to settle in a place we are currently renting at the All Russian Society for the Bind. It is a convenient location but lacks storage as most of our stuff has been in storage for more than a year. We have requested putting a storage place in the hall so we can at least return to the hospitality of coffee, tea and cookies for after service.
We also as have an opportunity to be provided with a prefab building through an organization in America that has a ministry of providing church buildings. All we would have to do is purchase the land. I don’t have to tell you that in the
Hello everyone, yes I have been a bit uninformative over the last couple of months but life in our huge city is moving on. Usually it is quiet for the church during the month of August, everyone trying to squeeze the last bit of summer. Many people enjoy having a dacha, which is a small little summer house on their own private ground where they can grow a garden. The dacha season is a part of Muscovite culture, and it does not take long living in the city to understand that a trip to the dacha can cover a multitude of frustration. Many grow tomatoes and cucumbers so come fall the canning season begins where cucumbers becomes солёный огурцы salty cucumbers, much like dill pickles just a bit more salty, and boy are they good to have in a soup. Today after I taught on the book of Philippians as Paul spoke about being concerned with others, Luba and Lyda came up and asked if they could come and prepare food for me and the guys that live with me. (That others centered message always works) And boy do they know how to fix vittles (пиша) Olivie salad (I call it Russian potato salad on steroids) it includes believe it or not potatoes, peas, those home canned salty cucumbers, chicken if you please, or smoked sausage, enough mayo to instigate a parcel hardening of the arteries, and a safe pinch of salt. They also simultaneously were making she soup, no they don’t have a he soup. She soup (Щи суп) Щ-s и-e с s- у-o п-p you be speaking Russian in no time. But she soup is made of cabbage, tomatoes, green herbs, fat, and is it great with a big spoon of sour cream (сметана) They prepared us enough food to last the average family about 5 days, but we will probably decimate it in 2-3 days.
This is Dima, he has been a friend of mine for the 8 years I have lived her, He goes to CC Kasherskya. Dima got saved through a soccer outreach. He was a former Moslem and is from 
Last week we had some of the interns at the CC Bible College Moscow come and visit Sasha (see past blog on Sasha). It was a real blessing for him and the Taylor family, who have taken a real interest in him, Shannon, Britney, and J.T (Justin) have been here for 3 months with mom Maureen. Ron (their father) came for the last two weeks of their time here in 
