Moments Before the Meeting with Pastor Vasily
Nizhnevartovsk Siberia, Russia (ACN)
It is Tuesday and I am well rested as is Anya. We visited the discount grocery store and found large bags of rice for approx. 80 rubles. Except for Mac and cheese they have everything we need. We will do without the Mac and cheese since the church will be cooking for us. And indeed we will eat better that way.
The hotel here near the airport was very nice even by American standards. We do not as yet know the price, but we have been told it will be about $60/person/day.
Nizhnevartovsk is an oil rich town and most of the population is well off. The church here is reflective of that wealth, and yet for all of the money they lack instruction and methods for how to run a children's camp. As I mentioned yesterday, they have not had a children's ministry team here since 1992.
The most touching thing that happened so far on this trip happened yesterday. Zhenya, the children's minister, thought that I thought that she might not be interested in our work since she had so few questions. She explained that she had already purchased tickets to go to a children's conference in Novosibirsk during the time we were to be here, but she stayed to meet with us, apparently because of she thought she might be able to learn from us when we bring a team here. She further epxlained that she had so few questions because she only recently learned that we were coming. I did a miserable job of planning this trip.
I do not know when we will have a decision as to the future trip, but hopefully within a month of this trip we will know.
Tommorow we head to Novosibirsk to meet with pastors there. I am looking forward to the meetings. God has truly been blessing us and we I hope that he will bless our ministry greatly while in Novosibirsk.
Well I must now go to the meetings. Please pray for us that all of the meetings will result in churches who will want to work with us.
May God bless all who read this.
It is Tuesday and I am well rested as is Anya. We visited the discount grocery store and found large bags of rice for approx. 80 rubles. Except for Mac and cheese they have everything we need. We will do without the Mac and cheese since the church will be cooking for us. And indeed we will eat better that way.
The hotel here near the airport was very nice even by American standards. We do not as yet know the price, but we have been told it will be about $60/person/day.
Nizhnevartovsk is an oil rich town and most of the population is well off. The church here is reflective of that wealth, and yet for all of the money they lack instruction and methods for how to run a children's camp. As I mentioned yesterday, they have not had a children's ministry team here since 1992.
The most touching thing that happened so far on this trip happened yesterday. Zhenya, the children's minister, thought that I thought that she might not be interested in our work since she had so few questions. She explained that she had already purchased tickets to go to a children's conference in Novosibirsk during the time we were to be here, but she stayed to meet with us, apparently because of she thought she might be able to learn from us when we bring a team here. She further epxlained that she had so few questions because she only recently learned that we were coming. I did a miserable job of planning this trip.
I do not know when we will have a decision as to the future trip, but hopefully within a month of this trip we will know.
Tommorow we head to Novosibirsk to meet with pastors there. I am looking forward to the meetings. God has truly been blessing us and we I hope that he will bless our ministry greatly while in Novosibirsk.
Well I must now go to the meetings. Please pray for us that all of the meetings will result in churches who will want to work with us.
May God bless all who read this.
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