Dear Fellow Laborers,

August 2011

Katya Saved

Kolya has been studying the Bible with me for about a year and half, and has been growing. Kolya is a member of the football team that I have been coaching, and that is how we first made contact. As Kolya studied the Bible, his girlfriend Katya started to listen in on our lessons. She is a basketball player for a local club team, and is regularly asked to try out for the national team for her age group in Moscow. She has never made the national team but it still is considered a great honor to be asked to try out. The first time she sat and listened to our Bible study I made sure to focus on the Gospel, not knowing if she would ever want listen in again. She did not get saved that day, but she became a regular attendee to our discipleship classes. Katya listened for about 5 months before getting saved. That is not uncommon here for someone to take a long time before making a decision for Christ. She has been faithful to our discipleship lessons since getting saved. Please pray that she will grow as a Christian and be the Christian lady God wants her to be.

Ongoing Construction

I am happy to let you know that the first of the roof is up and standing. We have had some interesting occurrences to get to this point. The two things that took the most time were attaching the base of the roof to the house and then attaching large two story tall trusses to that base on the roof. The first does not sound very hard, but the perimeter planks have to be exactly level, when the house is not exactly level. That is where it became difficult. Long story short, we got it done. It turned out that the trusses needed to have extra support as well. Both of these things together took about 3 extra weeks to do. Plus last summer we had almost no rain, this summer we have had many days of rain slowing work on the roof further, forcing us to work on the basement (which needs to be done, but the roof is more important).

 

New Teacher for Angela and the Kids

Angela and our children have a new teacher who is willing to come and teach them Russian for free. We would like you to pray for her salvation and that the situation works out. She has to travel about an hour one way to get here as any teacher would, which ends up discouraging people from teaching us.

Budget

Price of the Land Drawings and Permits Foundation Electricity Walls Roof Windows and Doors Gas Connection Gas Equipment Water and Sewage Church Space

22,000 6,000 35,000 4,000 23,000 8,000 6,000 4,000 3,500 7-10,000 6,000

Paid Paid Paid Paid Paid In the Bank In the Bank In the Bank In the Bank By Spring By Summer

Yours in Christ,
Adam, Angela, Alex, Amelia, Alisa, and Austin

Special thanks to Crossroads Baptist Church in Wichita for providing the funds for the gas equipment.