Reaching Volgograd for Christ

In March, a group of volunteers from America came to Volgograd to work with handicapped children. A group of 19 volunteers led VBS in three locations among disabled children and youth. Some of the officials were a little wary of this at first, but quickly warmed up to us when they saw how much fun [...]

Both of our music programs are still in progress, meeting regularly each week. We study basic note-reading, hand position, and tone-production on woodwind and brass instruments. The membership of these classes has been quite small, which I suppose is to be expected of a new, “start from scratch” program. Recently, however, there was a most [...]

A two-man volunteer team was with us recently from Seeking Him Bible Church in the Raleigh, North Carolina area. John and Randy were in Volgograd for about a week, filming video footage, taking hundreds of still photographs, praying for the city and catching a vision for the harvest-field of precious souls in this great place. [...]

Thanks so much to all of you who have been praying with us through the long process of trying to start band program through local institutions. As you may remember, there were several meetings with a local music school which led to a dead-end, numerous meetings with various houses-of-culture, and a seemingly endless gauntlet of [...]