Camp!

Plans are in the works to have one of the day camps in Kovrov! Please pray for Will and Pavel as they work on details like where to have it and for Yulia and Ira as they prepare lessons.

Please continue to pray for the overall camp plans, too. Ivan is very busy. The Ukrainian helpers are coming soon, the local workers are getting ready, and the small American team will be traveling before too long.

June 12
Camps start today in Teikovo and Shuya. The traveling teams are getting ready to go. As Ivan said, the important part right now is getting the system running, so please pray for everything to go smoothly from the start.

Pray for Ivan as he's driving around and coordinating. He brought us home at 12:30 last night, and we were just the first stop on his route.

Also, please pray about the idea of having a camp here. Yulia and Ira would have been heading it up, but Yulia's time off from work just changed, so now plans are up in the air.

June 26
Will, Anna, and Abby are at a camp in Sudogda. There's a three-day session starting today, and then another one after that. Please pray for the weather! (They're camping in tents.)

There is also a camp this week in Karabanovo. I think Linda and Elizabeth are there?

Camp here has been canceled.

Our visas

Our visas don't expire until August, but we're already looking into options. Please pray that we'll find a way to get visas that we can register here.

September 18
Please keep praying about our visas. Our situation is just getting more and more complicated. It does look like there will be new, good laws coming into effect in January, so please pray about that!

Easter program

Tomorrow Will, Ira and Yulia are putting on the Easter program for the orphanage. Please pray that they'll remember their lines in the play that they're performing and that the children will understand.

May 4
Ack! I just found out that I'm going to have to take a minor part in the play tonight. We also seem to have a very minor stomach virus going around in our family. Please keep praying.

May 5
All went well, and our stomachs are calm today. Thank you for your prayers!

Visas

Please be praying for visas for Anna, Abby, Linda, Kelley, and anyone else who will be coming over this summer. They're already in process, and we need to pray that there won't be any hang-ups. You can pray for camp preparation in general, too.

May 6
Praise! Anna's invitation came through yesterday. That's one step. . . .

May 18
Abby has her final visa, and Linda got her invitation.

May 26
Linda's application came back in the mail, so she had to resend it. And Elizabeth just got started with applying!

June 12
Everyone is here, so obviously they got what they needed. Thank you for praying! Now you can pray that there won't be any visa checks, or if there are, that there won't any problems.