The Lord always provides

After our detour from our plans yesterday we were wondering how we could finish our last night and have an opportuity to share with our friends about Christ. As always, the Lord provided. One of our friends called the pastor of a local church and he agreed that we could have our 'goodbye' party there. So Tim and Masha waited outside the hotel to greet those who came and told them how to get to the church while the rest met them at the church.

We had a great time singing songs and then each of our team had an opportunity to share with our friends about our relationship with Christ. It is always so wonderful to tell all of our friends about God's love for them. We had many come and ask us to talk more about God with them, and we were able to share more one on one. Please pray specifically for a young lady, Veronica, who asked how God could fill the emptiness in her life. Our plan is to talk with her again today and continue our conversation with her.

One of our friends got us an attorney, and he will file court documents challenging the Immigration Service about our visa and our right to have our English groups. He feels like he can win this case, and in so doing make it easy to continue to come in the future without issues. Please pray for wisdom for him as he represents us in the coming days.

Our biggest prayer is for all of our friends here. We want all of them to have the same joy and relationship with Christ that we have. We want them all to have salvation in Christ. Pray that the Holy Spirit will remind them of what we shared with them last night, and that they will accept His most valuable gift.

We leave Murmansk this evening for Moscow, then back to the states on Sunday. We are sad in leaving our friends, both because we have come to love them and also because we know many still are not in a right relationship with God. Please pray daily for them. We know that God desires ALL of them to come to a saving knowledge of Christ, and that is our greatest desire.