Zheleznogorsk city

Worship time at the church The Holy Trinity.

Worship team.

Prayer for children at morning service

Lunch and prayer with leaders of the church

With love from Ust-Kut

Finally, we arrived to Ust-Kut city! Our son with his family picked us up at the airport. A few hours later, our granddaughter had rested with baba!


Praise God for grandchildren! They are our joy!

Play time with Dasha and Syema


Pastors from Ust-Kut church: Dmitriy and Marina

Children worship at the very beginning of every Sunday church service

Yuriy is preaching at Sunday church service

Worship time

During the week, we led a service for families and prayed for the couples

Olga's turn to share


Pastor Dmitriy is glad that his church received the words of encouragement and lots of prayers



After the church service, fellowship with friends and prayer, and prayer for their needs

Getting Ready

Now we are getting ready for our long mission trip to Russia (August - September). Our focus in Russia at this time is rural Siberia (ten churches in cities and villages in the Irkutsk region) and the urban city of Nizhniy Novgorod in the European part of Russia. We already ministered in these areas and our brothers and sisters in Christ are waiting for our words of encouragement and prayers.

We believe

God will restore marriages and families! We believe women and men with alcohol and drug addictions will be set free! We believe pastors will be strengthened and encouraged for new revival. We believe that the magnificent presence of God will be in each city and village with a powerful move of the Holy Spirit.

Please pray for Siberia

That God draws Christians closer to Jesus and that the lost would be saved. Please also pray that the zeal of Christ will fill all who hear the Word and that their cities and villages would be affected by the outpouring of miracles, signs, and wonders following the Word.

Our Guests from Colombia

Our two dear friends from Bogota, Colombia visited us at the end of May. We drove to Columbus Airport to pick them up and were able to spend two days together. Our daughter Svetlana and her family opened their lovely home for us and our guests. Pastor Guillermo Parra with his church is taking care for about 2000 children in Bogota daily. It was our pleasure to serve him here in the States. His translator Savis translated for Guillermo here in the States and for us in Bogota, Colombia, a couple years ago.

Our New Grandson

Our family is growing! New grand-baby was born in March of 2011. Baby David is already 2 month old. So far, we have 6 grand children!
Natasha is a happy Mommy!

Big brother Jonathan with a baby David. Brotherly love is beautiful!

Daddy Andy is carrying his little son!

Grandma and Grandpa love their little grand baby David


Jonathan is having fun with making KOLOBOK (a big roll) in our bread machine. The roll was jumping and Jonathan was screaming - a real big excitement for about 3 years old boy!



The sunny summer days are good to go to Ash cave or to the strawberries plants.

Our boys (5 and 3 years old) picked the strawberries for the first time! Now they know that sweet strawberries come from the farms.

Christopher and Caleb are good helpers for a big project as well! Yuriy would not finish flooring without the real help from his grandchildren.
Such a great team!

Our first granddaughter

Here she is - our first granddaughter! How precious she is! As beautiful as her mommy! Dasha was born on November 12. She is one month old!

God blessed us with children and grandchildren! We have 4 grandsons and one granddaughter (so far). We love all of them very much! Praise God for His blessings!

Here they are - our Drozhzhins juniors in Russia, Siberia. Dasha was born on November 12. Simon is happy and proud of his little sister Dasha! So we are!

The temperature there already was down to -40F, but now it is up for a little bit. After experiencing -40F, Siberians would feel the temperature of +2F as up as +58F!

Thanksgiving & Christmas

Our children visited us for a few days in November. We had a great family time at Thanksgiving. The very next day after Thanksgiving, we celebrated Christmas! Why should we wait till December? Every single day could be a big celebration of our Savior Jesus! Our grandsons were happy to open gifts and share them with others. Unfortunately, on Christmas eve, we will not be able to get together. Our family celebrated Thanksgiving and Christmas at the same weekend!


Our three grandsons are riding together with grandma and grandpa to the Bounce House for fun.

Our fourth grandson couldn't come at this time: he is far away - in Siberia. Thanks to skype, we were able to see him and talk to him! He wanted to come and to have fun with all of us here.
All of our grandchildren are good helpers! Jonathan is helping with cleaning up our yard.