Voronezh, Russia is absolutely beautiful in the springtime... I just arrived here yesterday after 2 wonderful days in Chicago with my granddaughter Amelia.... ( along with my sond and his wife and my daughter Mary who came along.

I will teaching our church planting student for 3 days on the subject of Eschatology, the doctrine of the last days. As you might imagine, in light of the current events around the world, there is a tremendous interest in this biblical doctrine right now. Please pray for us in the next few days as we try to bring some sense to the nonsense that is prevailing in this current atmosphere.... Thanks again for all of your love, prayers and support!

GOD WORKS IN MYSTERIOUS WAYS!!!

For the last five years we have been working to bring a saturation church planting movement to the Central Black Soil Region of Russia. We have had the privilege of training almost 50 new church planters who are committed to starting new churches in areas where there are no churches or any gospel witness. One of the greatest needs we have is helpers who can come alongside our students and help with the work. By God's grace we recently discovered a Russian training center right here in our city!! This school has over 70 young people who are training to do evangelism and church planting in the former Soviet Union. All of them are fluent in Russizn and excited to get to the " old country" as soon as they can to help in the fight. We are currently in discussion with their leaders to develop a plan to have their students join our planters as interns. What a great gift from God! This single development could move our mission forward exponentially in a very short time period... The story continues....