You Stop, You’re Dead

Musta Tunturi (Barren Tundras), Murmansk Region, Russia; April 28 — May 1, We have a 5-year tradition of ski trips on May holidays (usually first 3 days of May). The previous years we had them more like expanded ice fishing trips. We skied to our camp about 10...

Making Glasses and Selling Tide

Recently, I was blessed with the opportunity to travel to visit many Stoneworks International partners in Belarus, Ukraine, and Estonia. What an honor to meet people that give their lives to serve Him in the ways that He calls them and directs them. I heard about the...

Macy Frazier – Intern

We are very happy to welcome Macy Frazier as our intern for this summer. In Belarus, Macy will help Spring of Revival and the Family Homes, and she will teach at English camps. In Estonia, she will serve at Camp Gideon, helping run an English camp as well as a camp...

Sunbeam – Growth

Sunbeam is expanding, both inside the building and as well as outside. Ursula Randlaine, our previous director, has taken a job with the local city administration and is still very closely connected with Sunbeam. Liana Pold serves as the interim director while we...

I Don’t Even Know What It Really Was

I don’t even know what it really was. We called it a Conference, but obviously it wasn’t. It was some gathering of men mostly from Alta, and also from some other places of Norway around. I was the only non-Norwegian resident at the meeting. We have been planning this...

Powerful in Worship, Fellowship, Message

On December 2nd and 3rd, we had our annual men’s conference in the Murmansk Region. To tell the truth, I had a really hard time preparing it. God is taking me through some major changes, including changes in my character, my attitude toward people, ministry, God, and...

Welcome to Laura Rechkemmer

We introduce the newest Stoneworks ‘living stone’, Laura Rechkemmer. She’ll be working in administration, communications and finance. She speaks Russian, has a lot of experience (having lived in Ukraine for about 7 years) and a great heart to serve....

Warm Autumn at Sunbeam

It is the 4th beginning of a new academic year at the day-care center for children with disabilities, Sunbeam. Thanks to the support of people from different countries and fruitful work of our team, our organization continues to grow. In September, the Sunbeam staff...

His Burden is Easy

Things are quite well with me here. I have settled in to my teaching schedule. I have more teaching hours this year, and that is good because I see my work at the school as mainly ministry. I am reminded of this clearly these days as it has been quite difficult time...

Bulgaria: Stepping into the Unknown

About a year ago I received a phone call from a man who I barely knew. He was telling me something about his friend from Moscow, his pastor who died a few months before, about mission in Bulgaria and other things, which couldn’t fit into my head. After some time of...