Christina had a great opportunity this week to encourage a small group of pastors’ wives as they got together for a little Christmas party.

Today we celebrated Noelle’s 4th birthday, although she doesn’t officially turn 4 until tomorrow. We had a great time Because Christina’s mom and brother were also with us.

December 3-5th we held our annual conference on the shores of the Black Sea about 25 miles North of Odessa.

Many of you have been praying for some time now concerning the purchase of a new facility for the CMI.

We got the first snow here last night. It wasn’t much but the kids were excited to see white stuff in the yard instead of mud.

Our last day in Greece we also had the chance of visiting the ancient city of Philippi. This was one of the major cities in Macedonia during Paul’s time (See Acts 16:11-39)

The place where Paul baptized Lydia,

This week our mission has its regional conference in Greece. The conference is actually about an hour South of Thessaloniki.

We know that many have been praying concerning the purchase of a new facility for the Church Ministries Institute here in Odessa.

Sunday morning I drove out to the village of Sahanskoe to pick up some of the believers there who wanted to come to the zhatva (harvest) celebration in Makarovo.