We had a most unusual and fascinating training in April. I had met Herman Heyman at a training several months before and asked if he could make a custom program for our team when he returned, which he was more than glad to do. We explored for two days questions like What are the unique…

Our work towards the formation of a pro-life/post-abortion ministry here in St. Petersburg is moving forward, building now on a foundation of prayer. We did not get the funding we had hoped for for Nastya to move into full-time ministry while I was in the US last year, but one sign of God’s call on…

I have in the past spoken and written about the amazing prophetic word that God gave to a most unlikely source concerning Russia: Hudson Taylor, a 19th Century English missionary to China, not known for moving in the prophetic. What follows is a no less amazing word for completely different reasons. This message was given…

I grew up in a Christian home, and as such I learned fairly early about what it meant to have a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ. What I semi-consciously struggled with, all the way into adulthood in fact, was the idea of having a “relationship” with God. It wasn’t so acute that I thought to…

I’m a team player. One of my core values is team and community, which I saw in myself when I became a camp counselor 20 years ago. It infected my ministry in Richmond as well. Then God made it clear I was to move to Russia, but he gave me a mission agency that, though…

Ours has been a slow, steady progress over the last (almost) two years since I announced a shift from focusing on training individuals to a focus on training an entire group. First I did a lot of vision casting. They didn’t really get me or where I wanted to go, but it was intriguing enough…

My home church in Georgia is organizing a vision-casting trip for those interested in getting a first-hand look at what God is doing here in St. Petersburg. Coming off of their initiative, we decided to open the trip to other interested parties. So far four churches have joined the discussion. This isn’t going to be your…

The following is an account of a visit to us by a friend of Diana’s this fall. I thought it gave a fresh outside view of what we do, and what God is doing here. I have never experienced anything quite like it.  Arriving in St. Petersburg late on a cold and rainy night, heavy…

This testimony is from Luba, a young woman in our core group. It’s a sweeping look at all that she has learned over the last two years of her young Christian life. So it’s a good perspective on what we do here. I learned of Christ 2 years ago. The Lord miraculously led me all…