Russia Gallery for 2005

I finally finished putting in names and comments in my photo gallery. Unfortunately I dropped my camera and exposed some of the second week photos. But here is most of my Russia 2005 "Talk the Talk" gallery (click here or on the image below):

Enjoy ...

-- 
Uncle Rodney

More Good news, this time from Oleg and Sana

This is an email from Oleg -

"Hello Chris and Holly!Thank you for your help with Classes. I never had more wonderful time in my life. We have like 50-60 students each week on our student's meetings. We never had so many. Thank you. OLEG and Sana"

We also have heard from 3 of our students, and all 3 are excited about the Tuesday night meetings. I am really looking forward to hearing about what the Lord is doing this year.

Great news from Darin!

News from Darin:

Dear Friends,

Thank you so much for coming to Ekaterinburg and participating in the English Outreach. God was pleased by your time here and so was the local team. Already we are beginning to see the fruit of your labors. This year's group is very excited about continuing the relationships that you initiated and invested in. Our first weekly meeting for seekers had about 70 students attend on Tuesday. Our first weekly meeting for believers had around 20! Already, we have met individually with many who attended the classes. I had a great time with Andre from Amy's class. Either he is already a believer or close to trusting the Savior. Pray that he would come to complete understanding of the gospel and that he would completely trust Him. Another student from the past knocked on Oleg's door unannounced this past Friday and asked if he could talk about God. This young many named Dima prayed to receive Christ. He is just the first of many to come this year, and all because of your investment and participation in the ministry here in Ekat.

Let me continue to challenge you to pray about coming for a Stint next year and to consider financially supporting Oleg and Sanna.

From Russia with love,
Darin

seekersretreat:

Home again!

Hey y'all,

I tried to post last night but my internet connection was down and refused to come up. Called SBC tech support today and they said there was "no problems", but my connection "coincidently" started working a couple of hours later. Hmmmmm. Only this isn't the first such "conincidence".

Anywho, we are back safe and sound. We left the hotel ~ 9am Ekat.RU time and I got home ~ 2am CDT.US time. That's 10pm CDT Saturday thru 2am CDT Monday; or 28 hours of traveling! And I know that others got home later than I did. The trip was pretty standard, including a 1-1.5 hour delay in Chicago b/c of bad weather. Our baggage carrousel was C-31, but AA was nice enough to reroute our baggage to C-4. So after a bit of scrambling around we were all set. BTW, thanks Bob and Julie for the ride!!

I'll post some additional thoughts and a photo album later. Just wanted you to know we all made it back safe and sound!

--
Rod

Packing up is hard to do ...

Ohhh, sorry for the bad pun. But packing day is always the worst day for me on these trips. We get to go to the weekend retreat (aka "Forrest Fun Party"); which is a first for us. It will be a great time to meet with the students, but also the last time (this year) that we get to meet with the students.   :-{

It really is hard to make such great friendships and then in 1 or 2 weeks leave them. Even though many students will keep in touch by email, it isn't the same as being here.

Please pray that all the students would come to the retreat and that each one would continue the friendships with a stint member and with Kompas.

Can't wait to put up a photo album for this year ... see you soon.

-- 
Rod