friends

with our focus on the students here, we've discovered that something that is so important for our hearts and our ministry are the friendships we've formed here. it's great to have people walking through this with you who are literally walking on the same streets and experiencing the same weather and the same metro, who you can share a meal with and just walk through this with.
chris and liz and jane and james are in the picture to the right, and these are some friends who have been such a blessing to us here. chris and liz are here working with students on college campuses throughout moscow. we met in language school and they are some amazing and dear friends. jane and james are living and working in southern russia and we are really enjoying getting know them.

tim and i were also involved in a house church this last year. we met every sunday at our apartment and had a really rich expereince doing that. for our last gathering of the year before they all went back to the states,
we met at a park early one sunday morning and had a picnic and worshipped in nature. pictured here is josh, tim, daniel, adri, christiana, me and sarah. none of us were ready for this picture, but we thought, that's life, and this is a fun picture!