Back to Russia

On June 21^st, we took a flight from Pittsburg, PA to JFK, New York. Then, after 9 hours in the air, we landed in the capital city of Russia, Moscow. Four hours connection time in Moscow, and then 5 hours in the air again. We arrived safely to Irkutsk at 5:20 in the morning on June 23^rd (local time here is 13 time zones ahead of our Easter Time).

Our friend Yuriy met us at the airport and brought us to his home. On the way home, we stopped at the Train station and purchased tickets to Ust-ilimsk city (27 hours by train).

Also, we met our friend Tatiana at the train station and invited her with us. She just came to Irkutsk by train (28 hours from a small village Magistralny) for a training program. God brought us together and we spent few hours in fellowship and prayer.

Irkutsk city

Same day, a young couple Tamara and Dmitry came to visit us. They are good friends of our children and wanted to hear more about them. Tamara is pregnant and has some problems with her pregnancy. We offered to pray for them and for their baby and parents-to be responded with a joy. So far, they do not attend any church.

We are so glad that God is using us to serve a young generation. We visited Masha with her 9 months old daughter Dasha (Masha’s husband works during the week). We had a great time of fellowship and prayer. Masha lives in a big city Irkutsk, but originally she is from a small village Magistralny. In 1996, we planted a church in that village, and Masha attended the church together with our children (she was about 12 years old at that time). Masha came to Irkutsk city to get an education. She finished university and now stays at home as a full time Mom. We advised her to get connected with young adults at the church. Masha and we are glad that God arranged this time for us to get together.

Leadership International Conference in Columbia SC

Many invitations had been sent out for the conference, but not all leaders could get visas. Delegates from Kenya, Uganda, India, Russia, Scotland, USA, Canada, and Colombia came to share what God is doing in their countries and to receive a fresh anointing for a great harvest. A local church posted all the services on the web.

For the first time, one pastor from Russia (fifth from the right) participated in the Leadership International conference (other four couldn’t make it). We performed translation for him: English-Russian and Russian-English.

International delegates from around the world.

The team of International Directors

Our son Konstantin and his wife Anna are sharing their call of God

Worship team from a local church "International Family Church" in Columbia, SC

We had a chance to show a Power Point presentation about our ministry in Siberia, Russia. Yuriy shared a sermon.

Team from Africa

Team from India

Olga spoke at ladies’ session.

Great time of worship

Yuriy & Olga with Pastor Isaac Daniel (new International Director for India)

Ernest and Atiya opened their lovely home and hearts for us. Thanks a lot!
Our grandson Simon was the youngest delegate at this conference.

Ordination Service. Rajeev and Becky Edwards of Charleston were ordained on May 31. They will pastor as new church is being birthed in Charleston.

Prayer for the Edwards

Youth group performed a song with a drama


People from a local church at Sunday service. Look at their nice national clothes!


Our grandson Simon has a good company (good care). He is in good hands!

First visitors at our new place

Our children and grandson visited us in Knoxville, TN in the beginning of June. They like this place.

After the conference our son Konstantin left to Mexico for the mission trip. His wife Anna and a little son Simon were staying with us while waiting for his return.

Park area

Our new home

The Lord has called us to do missions work around the world. During the last two years, we ministered in Russia, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, and the United States. We sold our house in Erie, PA back in May of 2007, packed all the household stuff in a self-storage for 5 months, and went to Russia.

After that, we rented an apartment for 9 months, and then we used a self-storage unit for 5 month again to save some on rent. Then we rented another apartment and kept all the boxes just in case we’d need them.

We prayed for a new place to live, so we’d be able to rest between our missions’ trips instead of boxing and re-boxing our stuff.

God brought us to Knoxville, TN and blessed us there with a "new house"!

Yuriy’s brother lives in Knoxville, TN and has helped us to remodel it.

The low price allowed us to close in 2 weeks.

This is how it was in the beginning.


Remodeling in progress!

After 2 weeks of hard work (sometimes up to 15 hours a day for two of us) it became a nice place to stay. Plus, Yuriy's brother Radion helped a lot with remodeling.

We removed a wall between the living room and kitchen and made an open space. We are planning to use our home for a small group connection. You are welcome to visit us when we are in the States.

After three weeks of hard work, it looks nice. We love our new home! Praise God for bringing us to this lovely place!

Welcome to our home at 2714 Barton Street!

Our 30th anniversary

On April 29^th we celebrated our 30^th anniversary.

God has blessed our marriage. He helped us to overcome some tough moments in our lives and to build a good relationship with our children and their spouses, and also with our grandchildren. We are blessed to see how our kids and our kids’ kids love Jesus.

We visited some interesting places. Have you seen a building that was "built" up-side down?