Hey there friends!  Well, after 18 hours of travel, we arrived in St. Petersburg!  Blake & Cathy Purcell, our hosts here, arrived just a couple of hours after us, having spent a few months back in the states seeing family and continuing to raise support.

But I also wanted to take a moment to suggest that if some of you are looking to regularly support missions overseas, please consider the Purcell family and the Slavic Reformation Society ministry that they started back in the 1990’s to plant churches in Slavic nations.  I know of no other organization that is accomplishing so much in the area of church planting in this part of the world  Currently there are nine churches in 4 nations.  This is a serious mission endeavor and deserves some attention from believers back home in America.