Prayer Request

Will woke up with a fever of 102.5 this morning and we think he might have some type of tummy ache. Please pray for whatever this is to pass quickly! Thank you :)

Ukraine Team

The majority of our Ukraine team has arrived safely! We now just waiting on Missy & Christy Moberly who will be joining us tomorrow. Tonight we will have a brief meeting and then walk around the city a little bit before going to dinner at a Ukrainian buffet. Tomorrow we will have training the majority of the day and perhaps eat pizza for dinner. Saturday morning we will head out of Odessa to the village of Petrodolina where we will have our English Language Bible Camp this next week. Stay tuned for pictures and updates. Thanks for you prayers!

Prayer Requests:
-Pray for the children to have soft hearts and open to hearing about HOPE this week.

-Pray for John & I as we will be the team leaders of this trip. It has been interesting but a good experience to juggle having a baby and ministry so we ask that you pray for us to have patience and have wisdom and discernment.

-Pray for Andy & Monica Coyle & their 3 children who just arrived today with the team. They have come to Ukraine under EEMN to be long term missionaries. These are friends of ours and we are very excited to see what the Lord has for them here!

Thank you!

Will is walking

Here are a few pictures of Will walking at school the other day. I must say, Will walking has help my back tremendously! He 27 pounds so I'm sure all of you moms can agree that Will walking is a good thing!
-Nichole

Goodbye Latvia, Hello Ukraine!

Yesterday morning we made our departure from Latvia and arrived in Odessa Ukraine around 6 PM. We took a flight from Riga Latvia to Kiev Ukraine and then a flight into Odessa from Kiev. Will did well with another full day of traveling. We had a grand American McDonalds meal last night around 8:00 to finish the day off :)

We were able to partake in the first day of camp at the Striki School. It was so great to be back there even if it was only for 1 day. Nichole was very excited to see 6 of the 12 students she taught 2 years ago. They were all much taller and their English skills have definitely improved!

There is something about Latvia that is so peaceful and relieving, especially after being in Russia for almost 1 month. We were sad to leave but excited for the next camp to get started. Here are a few pictures from the first day of camp.

The School Sign "Striki School". Striki is the name of the village the school is in.

David Michael sharing with his class pictures of his family and friends. David Michael is a missionary who has been in Latvia since November. Before he went to Latvia we had the privilege of visiting with him in New Mexico.

Sports time! As you can see it was a beautiful day!

One of our teachers Barb playing a vocabulary game with her students!

Latvian English Bible Camp Team 2011 (minus David Michael)

Striki School where the camp is held each year.

One evening we were able to fellowship with the director of St.Gregor's. (which is a Lay ministry and missions training center in Saldus Latvia and also the place where we were staying) Ramons, his wife Anda and their son have been living on property for about 2 years. We sat down and had tea together and a wonderful conversation about missions, marriage and a few other things. We hope one day to return and speak with them again.

Latvian English Bible Camp

The Latvian English Bible Camp starts Monday morning June 27th. Join us in prayer for the hearts of each student to be touched by the Holy Spirit!
Gracias!
John & Nichole

Riga Latvia

We were able to spend a little bit of time in the city of Riga Latvia for a few days of rest between camps. I (Nichole) absolutely LOVE this little city! And there happened to be a festival going on while we were staying here! There were lots of people dressed up, music, dancing and of course food :) Here are a few pictures from our day of walking around the city.

Will Started Walking

Well I guess we can officially say that Will is walking! Here is a short clip of him walking between some furniture.

Prayer Request

Hello All!
We write to you asking for prayer. Tonight we will fly out of St.Petersburg Russia and arrive in Riga Latvia at 10:30. We will spend the next 10 days in Riga with some missionaries. We ask you to pray for us to get some good rest before the next camp starts. Gracias!

St.Petersburg Camp Wrap Up

We had a great week of camp here in St.Petersburg! It was great making more friends and creating relationships with the people who work with the church we were in.
Thanks for all of your prayers!

St.Petersburg Camp Photo

Will is making new friends at every camp...usually a small group of girls ha ha :)

We were never hungry after lunch!

Music Time!

Dramas!

Will Talking

Will has started talking a lot more since we left. He has improved his vocabulary now by saying, "see, shoes, shirt, tree, and we think fish". We are so blessed by him. It really is amazing to see life through the eyes of a child.

Prayer Request

Hello all of our faithful prayer warriors.

We write to ask again that you specifically lift up in prayer the relationships we are building with the people here in Russia and also for those we hope to build in Latvia and Ukraine. We know that we can not bear fruit here without making good relationships.

Thank you for your diligence to pray for us! We covet your prayers!
John & Nichole

St.Petersburg Teachers

Meet our teachers for this week of camp! They will also be traveling on to do another week of Camp in a village next week. We will be leaving for Latvia on Friday and will not be going with them.

St. Petersburg Camp

Hello all! We have started our Bible Camp in St. Petersburg this week. We have about 40 students which is significantly smaller than the camps in the 2 previous weeks. This camp is also taking place in a Church rather than a school. We have 6 classes and are looking forward to all that the Lord has in store.

Team Members praying together before the 1st day of camp begins

Team Orientation the day after everyone arrived

St.Petersburg Team 2011

Team meeting at the church to discuss what things to expect this week

Ice cream time!!

Our Day Off

After the 1st week of camp we took Saturday to rest. We took Will to the park and got some ice cream. He doesn't really like ice cream but we thought we would try and give him some again anyway...however he really wasn't very interested as you can tell by the picture :)