Для меня радость и привилегия соединить сегодня вместе священными узами брака крошечный кусочек Украины и крошечный кусочек России. И я хочу сказать вам, что я уверен, то, что Бог соединил в этих международных отношениях, ни один человек не может разлучить! Почему я так уверен? Позвольте мне немного рассказать их историю. История начинается за поколения до…

So what is the bigger story here – the fact that I am about to travel to the Ukraine in September, or the fact that I am going to give away a beautiful young woman in marriage, and then actually officiate her wedding? To me, it’s the latter, so I named the post for it.…

How seriously do we take prayer and our relationship with God? We all say it’s critical, but do we put our time where our mouth is? I’m blessed to have a group of people that really do want to know God, seek His presence, and walk in His love and power. So it was about…

My place in God’s plan is in unity and love in the Church! It’s great to find one’s place in a common cause. And thanks to the mentoring of Lyle Thomas, I have found it. Prolife ministry in Russia is gaining momentum. Primarily Orthodox Christians are involved. During this last year, I have been able…

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…