Praise the Lord for His good works!

Dear friends,

I was blessed with quite a busy summer and a lot of travels. Moscow, Budapest, Kiev, St.Pete, Karelia and now back to Siberia. Conference at Vajta, Hungary was a wonderful time of spiritual and physical refreshment and also a chance to meet missionaries from all over the world! In Kiev I had a chance to participate in preparation for a global outreach – Franklin Graham’s Festival of Hope (http://festival2007.info/en/)
The festival took place on 6-8 July and about 250 thousand people visited it, 11 thousand people made their first step towards God. It was a privilege to destribute flyers and invite people to this festival, some of them were very open and had a lot of questions about God. People in Kiev in general are more open than in Moscow or any other Russian city I’ve been to. Unfortunately I was not able to visit the Festival for I had to be in Karelia for our annual Children’s camp. This time we had over 400 kids and I was a leader of thirty-two 11-year-old girls. Every day we had a new topic to discuss : sin, temptation, love and etc. It was wonderful to see how interested they were in hearing God’s Word although most of them live in non-Christian families( about half of my girls live with one parent and many parents are alcoholics which is an urgent problem in Karelia) and their only chance to learn more about God is that one week in summer. Please join me in prayer for these girls( see picture).
I also had a chance to visit my friends in St.Pete and prayed with CC pastor Boris about a possible ministry there. I feel God is calling me to that city, every time I leave St.Petersburg I feel like I could stay there longer. Maybe because I was born there?
My arrival in Novosibirsk was just in time for a Bible story based ESL that we did in Akadem town. It was a good week long outreach about half of the students went to church but others heard the Gospel message for the first time. Praise the Lord for the opportunity to use English language to witness about Him.

At the moment I am trying to complete my correspondence courses in Bible College. I have only 3 weeks till my departure and so-o much to do. Please pray for wisdom in managing my time for I will also need to work for 4 days next week. Praise the Lord!

I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus. Philippians 3:14

Please pray for:

- children in Karelia, the seed that was sown this summer to grow

- Russian people and especialy in Siberia to be more open to the Word

- My studies as I am trying to study Hebrews and Revelation this month

- My health and more strength in the Lord as I am heading towards my last semester in Bible College.

Summer update

my dear friend Lena in St.Petersburg,
island Valaam,

friends in Kiev,

Karelia camp