by Mike Cantrell | Dec 28, 2010 | Russia
MIR Executive Director Masha Oshkina traveled to the US with a disabled orphan for the hosting program. Here are her comments: We thought Andrey wouldn’t make it to the States. It almost seemed like nobody would. The newly made regulations about orphans travelling...
by Mike Cantrell | Dec 3, 2010 | Russia, Staff
News from Liz Hulley — In the end of October I received my temporary residency permit, which is valid for 3 years. This was the end of a 10-month process which began in January with a race to get in under the quota, and culminated in several back-to-back rounds...
by Mike Cantrell | Nov 30, 2010 | Montenegro
Vladimir Cizmanski, pastor of the Brethren Assembly in Montenegro, writes: I can’t describe my impression that time is going so fast. My weeks feel like days. Whenever I speak with someone about the time they have same sense. Are our globe and watches turning faster?...
by Mike Cantrell | Nov 25, 2010 | Russia
From MIR, in St. Petersburg — Last week, Russia celebrated “Unity Day,” which coincided with school vacation week. During this time, our dear friend David Hulley came for a visit. As per tradition, he wanted to spend some time with kids from the “Fairy” group...
by Mike Cantrell | Nov 12, 2010 | Russia, Staff
from Liz Hulley at On Life in St.Petersburg –www.openiam.com/docs/idm-2_3/apidocs/com/ When my dad and I took some kids from the orphanage out last week, the counselors whispered to us about the backgrounds of some of the kids. Well, they didn’t really...
by Mike Cantrell | Nov 7, 2010 | Russia
This is from Liz Hulley — My dad has been here for the past week and we have been visiting with friends. Maybe he will send me some of his photos. In the meantime, here are some taken when we went to lunch with some girls who grew up in the orphanage together....
by Liz Sukhovskaya | Oct 23, 2010 | Russia
Another great post by Liz Hulley — with comments from her blog. I was very amused that my automatic Russian-English dictionary correctly translated the title of this post when my mouse hovered over it. The dictionary is rather incomplete and sometime supplies...
by Liz Sukhovskaya | Sep 29, 2010 | Staff
From our own Liz Hulley, at On Life in St.Petersburg The story of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego (I always liked saying those names) is one so familiar from the Sunday school days. But even now, I’m amazed each time I read this testimony of the Lord’s...
by Mike Cantrell | Sep 18, 2010 | Estonia
I’ve just been in Estonia, researching ministry opportunities. In addition to our plan to send several short-term mission teams next year, a donor in the US has offered to give significant funds to help build a center for disabled children in Jõhvi, in Northeast...
by Mike Cantrell | Sep 9, 2010 | Estonia
This is from John Neese, director of SAC, one of our partner mission organizations: The Narva (Estonia) Orphanage Director says graduate orphans that know younger orphans that are about to graduate will threaten them with their lives if they don’t hand over the...
