I've posted links in various places, including Twitter and Facebook, of the closing video from the 2012 Leadership Conference of Christian Camping International-Russia.  On the Vimeo page with the video is the following story about the video and a bit more info about the guys we work with in the video businesstry (ministry with a business angle & hopefully future), we call "MOCT Digital".  (MOCT is the Russian word for 'bridge'.)The entire experience of working with these guys over the past few years and seeing their growth, not just as professionals, turning out professional work, but their personal & spiritual...

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The other thing I learned through this experience (which I wish I had not) was the color of the water in which we had been showering all week.The morning we packed up to leave the 2012 Leadership Conference of Christian Camping International-Russia in Moscow, the temps had fallen to -33 Celsius, (-27 F).  I thought I understood auto batteries pretty well, especially after spending a decade of my career in that business.  But, last Friday morning, Russian winter taught me new lessons in auto battery chemistry.  At those temps, all of us at the conference center that morning shared the...

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  A couple months ago our brother Pat Robertson made news headlines with an ill-advised comment about the faithfulness, or lack thereof, of the husband of an Alzheimer patient. His comments prompted me to write the following letter to my dad. After reading it, you might also appreciate taking a brief video journey through the life and love of my parents, a young farm girl from Kansas and her farm boy, and their faithfulness to one another and their Lord. Yesterday, their journey together ended, as mom was taken to join the Bridegroom for whom she was created to enjoy...

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I originally posted this blog a month after moving to Russia in 2005, when my mom was lying in an ICU and not expected to live. Today her struggle to live ended with her being united to her Bridegroom, after 64 years of her incredible journey with my dad. I also posted a video today which you can access through my Vimeo page for a closer look back at those 64 years. I'd love it if you could share in my mother's memory, watching it and worshipping, as you witness the beauty of what God did with a young farm...

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  As was evident in the article from our Summer 2011 e-newsletter, "Disciple-Making: Alex's Story", and the continuation of that story on this site in the article, "Habitat Projects: Extreme Heart Makeovers", we have begun to see a shift in focus (really not "new" as this article's title indicates, but newly realized), to engage the local Body of Christ more and more in the work of ministry and focus more intentionally on discipling young believers.  These young believers we've been walking with include everyone from the "fatherless" flock (in an earthly sense only) we find among us, to the church members...

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