Thursday, March 23, 2006

Winter Planning Confrence

Sorry the journals have been sparce latly, but I've been pretty busy. I went to Penza with Adam and Dan to plan for a pastor's confrence. We had Bill up two weeks after that for the confrence. Then shortly there after I went to Surgut, Siberia to help open up a BTCP there and I just got back from my registration trip to Tallinn. So to make up I'll post a few pictures, most of them are from the pastor's winter planning conference. As you can see we had quite a few pastors come up from all over Russia. They came to Moscow to get vision for a church growth strategy that involves, evangelism, church partnerships and pastor training. I'll give you three guesses as to who does the pastor training part of the strategy.

Get Out the Map

Each evening after the seminars we would head to our room, get the map out and plan our BTCP strategy. Ok Dan, we're sending you to outer Siberia, pack warm!

Everything Freezes

After the confrence we had to get a jump from some of the maintainace guys at the place where we stayed. Who knew that car batteries freeze at -20 C!!?

A Simple List of Noun Endings

Part of my ministry will always be learning language. Here Dan and I are getting a review of the entire Russian language. Our language teacher, Mukhabat, is holding up a list of all of the possible noun endings in Russian.

I Hear a Voice















Ummm....I think I feel God calling me to serve in Hawaii.