Ministry in Ust-Ilimsk city

Finally, we've got good Internet access.
We visited church in Ust-Ilimsk city: they have drug and alco rehab centers and are sending a lot of people to open new drug rehabs and new churches.

Pastor Nikolay Chernenko

Prayer for students

Her family is a miracle: Mother and daughter prayed for their husband and father while he was addicted to drugs. His life was up and down. Praise God for victory! God gave a freedom from drugs and blessed that couple with son.

Leaders of alco rehab center, Igor and Elena.

They started from scratch, and successfully growing.

Rehab center just bought a small used tractor.

They have a pretty good farm.

A lot of animals and birds.

Recently they bought 8 acrs of farm land.

One day I spend with Pastor Nikolay on the river Angara and I, personally, cut a few fishes "hariuse"!

Pastor Nikolay and I had a good time together: fishing and talking.

Bratsk city

Bratsk city - the city of brothers!

The service at the church in drug rehab.

They restored old building and now it's in a pretty good condition to live in.

That night we served at drug rehab center.

One night we visited pastors of drug rehab center, Leonid and Tatiana. They were drug addicted in past and found freedom in Jesus. They remember what God did in their life. They are on fire to help others! They have 2 beautiful children.

Leaders of another church in Bratsk city.

Our friends, worship leaders Vitas and Irina with kids.

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!