2012 Highlights and Beyond. . .

We have a 9-month old! After a summer in the U.S., we arrived back in St. Petersburg in the end of August. David was almost 8 weeks old upon our arrival, but a month later we had to go to Estonia to get him a new visa. So we had sort of a parenting trial by fire as we...

Norwegian Men’s Retreat

I led a men’s retreat in Norway last month. Here is a video of our trip. I didn’t mention it in the video, but I want to express my heart-felt appreciation to Vestre Jacobselv Camping leaders, and especially to Oyvind Kjelling and Siren Jankila, the folks...

Too Many Eulogies

I want to clarify about the title of this post. From a human perspective, everything feels “too hard.” People we love often lose their lives “too early.” There is “too much” tragedy around us…doesn’t it seem like more...

Meet and Greet

Well, I got nominated for a blog award in which I am supposed to share some details about myself. I am also supposed to pass it on to someone else. I checked back to a post I wrote about the blogs I follow, and I think about 90% of them are now defunct, though there...

Heart

When a non-believing friend visited our women’s group lately and had some questions, I was moved listening to other women share their stories. They spoke of their faith, and the Word of God flowed out of their mouths so naturally. I don’t really know how...

Sunbeam – Step By Step

Here is an overview of our current activities. By the terms of to our second grant, construction of the second group room and other rooms [offices and therapy rooms] are nicely started. This week the main work in the second group room are finished. Next week, we plan...

More News Regarding the Bus Accident

We’re getting more news about the bus accident and the children from #8: From Sergei Tovstopyat: Today at 10 am, I talked to the director Tatyana Alexeyevna. At the moment, three children are in serious condition at a hospital in Cherepovets. Five children have...

A Tragedy in Russia

Stoneworks and our partners have been helping Orphanage #8 in St. Pete for many years. Today their bus was in an accident as they returned from a Spring Break holiday. The details are coming more clear, and it appears that a car (driven by a policeman) was passing the...

HFO – New Heart by God

We often use the words that come to us from the other foreign languages. One of there words used in Russian language is the Greek word “metamorphosis” which means a conversion, transformation of something. This transformation we see in our life and often...