MIR — Summer is Around the Corner

Hello dear brothers and sisters – In St. Petersburg, the warm weather is beginning. We have started our Spring outings with students and children from orphanages to rivers and lakes, in order to monitor environmental pollution. This year we are combining groups...

Elama — Time to Get Ready

Elama is a summer camp overseen by our Russian partner MIR; the camp is located north of St. Petersburg. Yesterday MIR director Sergei Tovstopyat and I went to Elama for the first time after the winter. It’s always a bit of a concern to see if anyone has broken...

More News from Camp Elama

The team from Teen Mania continues to do very well at Camp Elama. The weather has cleared up (after a few cool, rainy, windy days), and the US students and the Russian campers are growing closer and enjoying their time together. We said a tearful goodbye to the Riley...

Teen Mania at Camp Elama

WWW.ASPIROADVENTURE.COM/BROCHURE/JS/ Teen Mania sent a team to run a camp; they arrived a few days ago. Everything is going well, though the mosquitoes have been a sight to behold (and slap). The team has been helping open up Camp Elama after the winter’s...

Workday at Elama

We had a work day at Elama on Saturday. It was cool and rainy, so we didn’t get as much work done as we’d hoped, but we had a great time of fellowship together. Elama will host quite a few people this summer. I’m now in Montenegro, awaiting the...