English Club Thanksgiving Dinner - Jeremy's group

We invited over my English group from the English Club for a Thanksgiving Dinner. We had a great time of fellowship, food, and fun. Some of our American friends gave a testimony about Thanksgiving. Building relationships with Russian is key to sharing the Gospel with them.

Decorating the Christmas Tree

It is our family tradition to decorate the Christmas tree on Thanksgiving Day! The kids had a great time getting out all the ornaments to put on the tree!

English Club Thanksgiving Party

We had a GREAT Thaksgiving Party with our English Club participants the night before Thanksgiving. There were MANY non-believers who heard a very clear Gospel presentation as we talked about the things we should be thankful for. Continue praying for these participants to be more interested in spiritual things. Pray that God would draw them closer to Him and work in their hearts.

Patiently waiting for the party to start.

Fellowship and preparing the food.

Setting the program for the night.

Group games.

Group skits.

Songs of Thanksgiving!

More groups skits.

Cell Group Training

Also, in November, we began our cell group training with the potential leaders within our church congregation! We have had 4 groups, consisting of potential leaders, meeting weekly since this time. Please pray for us as we finish up our training this month and as the new leaders begin their groups in March. Cell groups are key to reaching the millions of people who live in Moscow.

Basketball Season

Towards the end of November, basketball season began at the Anglo-American school every Saturday. Both of our kids love basketball so we make the trek clear across Moscow each weekend to watch them play. Here are some pictures of the first day.

Elvira - Deana's Russian Coach

This is Elvira, Deana's language tutor for over 2 years. I also studied with her a couple of different times. We took them out to Starlite Diner as a "thank you"and "farewell" time in November. She moved away from working with us and started working with some of our new colleagues here in Moscow. This was the first time we met her husband, Rudolph. Pray for her salvation!

NOVEMBER LADIES MEETING

These are pictures from Deana's November meeting with the ladies from church and English Club. They always have something GOOD to eat. Sometimes they make it together. They always have a great spiritual discussion on some pressing issue in today's life in Moscow. Please pray for the group that will meet next Saturday, February 11th, at 11:00am. Pray that many ladies would be interested and willing to attend.