The Passing of Tamara Alievna Trushkovskaya

Here is a letter we received from Kari Lehelma, the director of the Australian/Finnish mission Love for Kids, a mission that has sent many teams to summer camps in Russia. Tamara will be missed. We received extremely sad news from Russia Sunday afternoon, Tamara...

Liz Hulley Sukhovskaya

Liz married Andrei yesterday. It was a lovely wedding at an old Finnish Lutheran church in St. Petersburg. Many of her family members were able to attend including David and Anne, Liz’s parents. Their honeymoon will consist of a few days in Pskov, an ancient...

Alina: Foster Care in Russia

You can see Alina’s first update here. Hello my dear friends! Praying this letter will find you well! I have written recently sharing with you about our new life together. I am grateful to you for you prayers and support. With God’s grace and mercy we are...

Liz: Family and Orphanage News

From Liz Hulley Sukhovskaya: Hello, everyone! This is just a quick note to share a little bit about how orphan ministry is going. There are some needs that are pressing, and it’s wedding/honeymoon time soon for me. Orphanage #27 in Kolpino Many of you know of this...

Heartache

From Liz Hulley Sukhovskaya — “We have sad news in the orphanage.” I felt like my heart stopped when Galina told me that today during our weekly tutoring session. I immediately started thinking of the “older” ladies who worked at the...

Letting Go

from On Life in St.Petersburg by our own Liz Hulley Sukhovskaya I got a new phone the other day because my other one was dying, and it took a certain amount of effort to transfer the contacts between the two. But I actually received an unexpected blessing going...