Gospelink mail

Please pray specifically for the mail to move quickly as we're waiting for papers and letters to come in for Gospelink, and as we send two pounds (!) of paperwork off to the US office.

Cool weather!

Hurrah! God proved that He is bigger than the weatherman! :-) After all the forecasts of heat until the end of September, we're enjoying wonderful, cool, fall-ish weather. It is really helping me to sleep better at night and feel better during the day.

Praise and prayer

Praise the Lord that our applications for visa invitations for the children and me are actually in the office where they need to be now. They might even be done much faster than usual! Pray that we'll get an answer soon, and that it will be a YES.

Please don't stop praying for me to be able to sleep at nights and to feel good during the days. This week has been better overall during the days (praise the Lord!), but nights are hard and maybe even getting worse. Time seems to be going so slowly for me.

Keep praying

There's nothing new to report on our document situation. Just keep praying.

Gospelink work continues, so please keep praying about that, too. You can read the last request I posted about Gospelink for details. There will be more meetings coming up soon. (The travel last week did go well. Praise the Lord for that.)

Pregnancy continues to go well overall, but it's hard day to day.

Health praise

No colds this time after Will's Moscow trip! Thank you, Lord!

Permission

The nursing home ministry is on hold, because they need official permission from higher up in Vladimir to be able to work there. Please pray that permission will be granted!

Visa invitation

We found out on Thursday that my application for a visa invitation couldn't be turned in without our marriage license. They've tried to turn it in several times now, and each time there's been something missing. Please pray that this would be the last thing, and that the application really would have gone in Friday! The woman at the Baptist Union was leaving on vacation then, but she was going to leave a note for someone else to handle it.

No germs, please!

Will's going to Moscow on Monday, and he almost always comes back from those trips with a cold. Please pray that he won't this time.

Gospelink

This is a Gospelink busy time. Here are several specific requests:
1. Will and many of the men will be traveling on Monday to meet up in and near Moscow. Pray for safety. (Pray for me at home with the children then. It's hard without Papa these days!)
2. Pray that all of the men would be responsible to bring their letters with them to the meetings and not complicate things for Will.
3. Pray that even without a convenient phone and internet connection we would be able to do all the necessary communicating in a timely fashion this quarter. (And that everyone else would cooperate in that, too!)

Pregnancy update

The weather has cooled off, I've slept well for a few nights, and I'm doing better. Still, that seems to be very precarious, so don't stop praying for me! Really, all is going well, but days on end of not feeling 100% do get tiring. (And it feels like we're headed for more heat now.)

Invitations

The visa invitation applications for the children and me still haven't even been turned in, because of various holdups and a vacation. Please pray that they will actually go in today!

Zzzzzzzz

Sorry to be stuck on this, but please keep praying for me to sleep. I am really having a hard time with this! When I do sleep, I feel pretty good the next day, but when I don't it is really hard to get moving and keep up. Pray for strength for Will, too. He takes care of everything when I don't feel good.

Praise

. . . for a great fellowship time with most of the church youth and young families this week. Please pray that we could get together more often. All summer we've had a hard time gathering more than just a few people.

New friends

There are two young ladies who have just started coming to church. Please pray that we'd be able to draw them into activities and church life and that they would keep coming. Diana has just come through a Christian rehab program and really needs to avoid her old friends here. Lyuba was a classmate of some of the other girls in our church.

Family ministry

Please pray that our church would be able to start a ministry that would help families, either a group for the husbands or the wives or both together. There's a great need for it and desire to start, but nothing has been organized yet.