The End of the Beginning

by | Jun 9, 2010 | Russia

This building project has ended, just in time for the beginning of the summer. A team from Athens, GA returned yesterday from building two pavilions at Camp Elama, in Russia. Click here to see a slide show of their first few days. Pictured above is the large pavilion...

Expressing Intentions

by | Jun 3, 2010 | Russia, Staff

Here’s another post from Liz Hulley — When you are “planning” to do something, what is your degree of intent? I’m just curious because apparently in the Russian language, “planning” is tentative. That is, “planning” to do something means that you still...

Construction Team at Elama

by | Jun 1, 2010 | Projects, Russia

We have a team in Russia now, building two pavilions at Camp Elama. The team is from St. James United Methodist Church in Athens, Georgia. They are doing a great job. Here’s a slide show of their first few days there — report very carefully Special thanks...

The Bull Report

by | May 22, 2010 | Russia

John has been going out to Elama with Sergei more often to work on getting the camp ready for the Georgia team. The Georgia team will be helping build a couple of buildings on the property. I know the kids that use the camp will be grateful for all the hard work that...

You are (not really) special

by | May 14, 2010 | Russia, Staff

Liz Hulley writes: There was something rubbing me the wrong way about some Sunday school play scripts we were looking at. The message of almost every scenario was either “You are special in God’s eyes” or “Everyone is special in God’s...