A guy can only do so much, but after six years of seeing and responding in small ways to the beggars on the streets, I am thankful that my heart has not yet hardened to their plight. If only I could do more! The boys and I were coming home on the metro the other…
If you don’t understand our vision well, it can sometimes seem overwhelming, because it really is big. But how else does a country change but when God’s people pray about big things? One more important piece of the larger puzzle came together this weekend for me, for our team, and for the advancement of the…
Our leader who is called to step into pro-life ministry here in St. Petersburg is Anastasia (aka Nastya) Tikhonova. This post describes how this project got started. Nastya came over to the US during part of my time and met with a number of ministry leaders in post-abortion work and from multiple Pregnancy Resource Centers. The director of the PRC…
This article from the NY Times is worth posting here. It’s a very sad portrait of what is happening along the busiest stretch of road in the country – the highway that connects St. Petersburg to Moscow. I can’t help but be sad for the rural part of Russia, which is the overwhelming majority of…
A subject I delve into once every few years for a few days before real life takes over again is genealogy. It’s a topic the Apostle Paul warned not to get caught up in (e.g., 1Ti. 1:4; Tit. 3:9), but given the plethora of biblical genealogies from Adam to Jesus, the concern can’t be with…
In a land that suffers from having the highest abortion rates in the world, good news is really good news. And I am happy to report two pieces of very good news for the advancement of righteousness in Russia. First is that I have learned that it is now law that before a hospital performs…
Inna and met when she decided to expand her horizons by taking coaching training with me in 2009. Not only did she take well to the training, but she showed a hunger for everything I offered that was discipleship-oriented, especially as it related to counseling. She later told me that before she started taking our…
I’ll just share with you what I wrote to one of the members of the team from the International House of Prayer who came to lead several days’ worth of training for our core group in June while we were in the US. Amanda, Let me give you a testimony. We got back on the 22nd.…
We got introduced to a new pastor while in the US who was gracious enough to be willing to introduce us to the congregation on Sunday for prayer. My task: summarize for him our work as briefly as possible. It made me work, and here is the result: We are here to foster a prayerful…
If you’ve been aware of our ministry in Russia for any time, you know that orphans, both literal and spiritual are a constant theme I return to for understanding what God is doing and wants me to do as a spiritual father for so many. It’s a topics that seems deeper and more powerful the…
orphan dreams 