McSwain's Minutes

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

RUSSIAN ORTHODOX EASTER

I thought some of you might find these pictures interesting. On the day before Easter, here in Russia, the people go to their local Orthodox Church and wait in HUGE lines to have their Easter eggs and cakes blessed by the priest. The is the closest Orthodox Church to our apartment. You can see how many people are there and how long the line is.

MOLDOVA VISA TRIP

In April, we took a visa trip to Moldova with the Courson's, who are also missionaries in Moscow to the deaf. We were there for 4 days and we praise God that we received our visas so quickly. We found out a week later that the next 2 American couples who went there for their visas were told that they would have to wait a couple of weeks to get it. We got ours in 3 hours!! Here are some pictures from our trip to Moldova.

KELLAN'S SCHOOL PROJECTS IN APRIL

Here are some pictures from Kellan's school projects in April. He participated in the 5th grade Science Fair and then his class held a celebration after they completed their country reports where parents, other elementary students, and teachers could come and look at the projects and taste a native food from the country their report was about. Kellan chose Nigeria because we have a friend from there and he did an excellent job. You will also see a couple of pictures of Ella when she was visiting this event.

Sunday, April 17, 2011

GREESHA'S FAMILY

I have asked you many times to pray for my friend, Greesha. This is a picture of his family. He is on the left, his mom in the middle, sister-in-law, and dad on the right. Remember, that his dad was baptized in January. Continue praying that all of them would come to know the Lord, personally!

Last Sunday in March

I preached the last Sunday in March at our church on Psalm 90. These are some pictures of one of my illustrations. They probably think I am really lame, but it got the point across! There are some pictures at the end of the kids after church that day! By the way, I preached that same sermon, in Russian, in Rzhev the next Sunday! First time!