Dear Fellow Laborers,

June 2006

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

We are praising the Lord for Dimitri’s salvation

While door knocking next to our office we have met with many people who the Holy Spirit is convicting of sin, none more so than Dimitri. Dimitri is a 16 year who was more than ready to admit that his life did not match up with God’s perfect law. When confronted with his sin Dimitri asked Christ to forgive him. Please pray concerning this new convert. Pressure from parents to renounce decisions concerning Christ can be very great. Please also pray for a 32 year man named Alexsei. While not being saved yet, he showed some sincere concern for his soul, and seemed to understand the Gospel. Also pray for Gulya who is a clerk at a convenience store that I handed a tract to. After following up on it, she told me that she was interested in what it had to say.

Still have not received stamp for residency

WWhile Moscow has approved our request for residency, it is still undecided whether or not we will receive our stamp before our current visa is up and we have to leave the country again. We found out last week that there is still one document that we need to obtain in order to get our stamps from our regional passport agency. The problem is we must get this document from our local passport desk, and in the past they have not been very helpful. We seem to have been caught in a turf battle between bureaucrats. While the regional office has been very professional and helpful, the local office has resented the regional offices interest in our case. The Lord knows all of this and I believe He can resolve this situation. Please pray that everything will be completed before July 27th, when our current visas end. If not we would have to leave the country again for a couple of weeks, which would be very expensive and difficult. We are willing to do what ever it takes and are depending on the Lord to provide.

Trip to America Postponed

We were planning on making it back to America for a very short furlough to be at the 20th year anniversary of our home church. With our residency situation still undecided, we believe it would not be wise to make the trip at this time. As soon as our situation here stabilizes, we will let our supporting churches know when they can expect us to come and report about how the Lord is blessing here in Russia.

 

Prayer Requests
• Stamps for residency to be completed by June 27.
• Dimitri to be faithful under persecution.
• Salvation for Alexsei, Lyudmilla and Vasilye, Misha and Marina, Oleg and Lena.

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