Dear Fellow Laborers,

April 2005

Praise the Lord for the exciting things He is doing in Russia!

The development in Samara is huge with over 2000 structures being built.

Praise the Lord We Arrived in Samara

After going to Finland to get new visas, we entered back into Russia and flew from St. Petersburg to Samara to be able to make the three day registration deadline. Our car arrived in Samara a day late, but praise the Lord it arrived in great condition. The two containers that we packed with all of our belongings, actually came much earlier than we expected. Most importantly, our family arrived in Samara safely. Please continue to pray for the registration of our car. We did run into some temporary obstacles. Some of our paperwork had to be verified by the local notaries who had to call some notaries in St. Petersburg, who created our documents. The problem came when it took about a week to get a hold of the people in St. Petersburg. We do expect our car to be registered by the time we get back to Russia.

Praise the Lord for the safe arrival of two containers and our car to Samara.

We Found a Temporary Apartment

Although we arrived during a two day holiday, and our car arrived a day later than we expected, we were able to find a good apartment within one week for a decent price . Our remodeled apartment is just around 600 sq. ft., but very conveniently laid out. We previously were planning on trying to buy an apartment before we left for the states. We found nothing that fit our needs, to be built in the area we want to start our first church. Also we found out, that for the same amount of money, we can buy a house with the same amount of sq. footage. Please pray as we try to find God’s will concerning this matter. Whatever we get, we are trying to move into it as soon as possible, in order to file the paper work for our permanent residency visas.

We were able to find an apartment within a week of arriving.

Making Friends Right Away

Mahil, the sister of one of our long time attending members of our Bible study, got saved this month. Also, we had a regular attender of last year’s Bible study call me out of the blue. He had not been able to attend because he had moved out of the dormitory and lived in a different part of the city. He asked to meet with me, and said that he had a Russian friend who was interested in God. Her name is Ariana. She got saved at our house when we met and then came to Bro. Charters’ church that Sunday. Please pray for her faithfulness.

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Our apartment is about 600 sq. ft. but very nicely laid out.

Yours in Christ,
Adam, Angela, and Alex