Team Arrives!

The team from Athens, GA arrived today safe and sound. After some good soup at Vladimir and Marijana’s everyone is sleeping soundly. Tomorrow we will have a conversation club and “USA Night” at a local university. Building relationships and sharing...

Progress at Sunbeam

Here’s a quick update from Liana Põld, Executive Director of Sunbeam. The construction work continues at Sunbeam. Here you can see the pictures. Sadly, I think by 1 June we will not be ready to open. Elena and Ursula work every day in the office; we plan our...

Real, Deep, Personal

News from Yura Belonozhkin: We had a men’s group meeting in Nickel. there were 11 men from Nickel and Zapolarny. The men were from different churches, 2 guys were from the world. unfortunately, nobody took pictures during the meeting.  The topic was “The...

Workday at Elama

We had a work day at Elama on Saturday. It was cool and rainy, so we didn’t get as much work done as we’d hoped, but we had a great time of fellowship together. Elama will host quite a few people this summer. I’m now in Montenegro, awaiting the...

A Trip to Elama

Yesterday Sergei Tovstapyat and I went to Elama, our camp about an hour north of St. Pete. It’s time to start opening it up, and yesterday among other things we connected the primary part of the water system to be sure things are working. We also met with some workers...