Preaching

Mr. Eivind preached his message last night to the teams. His message was on..... with God nothing is impossible.

**Email from Carol:
Hi Hollie....
Dad came home last night with the most amazing story..... After he finished preaching he had to hurry out to the bus. He waited a while and no bus so he decided to walk out to the road and see if one was coming into town. Just as he set his bag down, he turned a here was a car that pulled up to him, the driver open the door and told Dad to get in, behind him... in the back seat. He asked Dad where he wanted to go and he said Shadrinsk. So they're driving down the hill and he gets to the Shadrinsk sign and then where... Dad does his hand motions for a river and bridge over it. OK, the drive understand to go across the bridge. Dad points to continue straight ahead for about 4 blocks and then motions for him to stop in front of our apartment. Dad gets out ad wants to pay the guy and he says NO NO NO....
Now what do you make of that??? I say Dad had an encounter with an angel. They do exist.
Hebrews 13:1-3

Work in Progress

July 13 SBC

Today, July 13 is Sunday and a more relaxed day in the life of a TMI'er!!
One of the things the kids do is quizzing, Bible quizzing that is. All TMI kids have 40 verses to learn through the summer. It's a lot of fun to watch and also participate.
The American team went into town to attend the Baptist Church.

This is the sunrise. The tiny dot is the sun.

Here is the Rally Room (quizzing). It can be intimidating at first, but it is a lot of fun. The first three versus they learn are John 3:14-16, Acts 4:12, and Phil 1:16.

Siberia BC

July 12...
The weather is nice and hot and perfect for doing laundry. And I'm doing lots of it!! We've gone though the duffels we left last year and the year before... now we've got way too many clothes!! But I'm washing as much as possible. It's not as easy here... I heat some water on the stove and then put that along with the cold water in the washer tub and then the clothes. I allow them to wash for 5 minutes. Then they need to be wrung out, and rinsed. Now there isn't much space to hang clothes. Here is a sample of what I work with. Everything beats having to do it all by hand, so I never complain.
If I hung the clothes outside, I'd have to sit out there all afternoon so no one would steal them... and you would wonder "why would anyone steal my clothes??" but they will.
Tomorrow is Sunday and a sort of "Day of Rest". We'll both go out to the camp and worship with the teams. Enjoy your LORD'S Day.
Love and prayers, Carol and Eivind

This is the tiny washer!

Hanging clothes out on the balcony.

This is the bathroom.

Siberia Boot Camp

Greetings,
It's been a long time since we were in Russia last. But now we're ready to go. We've spent a few days in Clarksville, TN packing and we'll attend our church, Spring Creek Baptist Church this Sunday. After the service we will drive to Atlanta and Monday, (July 7) afternoon we begin the journey to Krasnaya Niva. The Teen Missions team will be leaving about the same time from Florida and we will meet in Frankfurt, Germany. It will be GREAT to see the team and spend the day in town with them. Then Tuesday night we leave Frankfurt for a 5 hour flight to Ekaterinburg, Russia. Then a 5 hour bus ride to the village of Krasnaya Niva.
Everyone is VERY anxious to get started on the project God has sent us to do. We will be helping with the Boot Camp and then the Bible School.
Our daughters have redone our website so you can keep up to date. www.braysinrussia.blogspot.com
We covet your prayers and we will be praying for you as well.
God bless you this summer.
With love and prayers, Carol and Eivind

Ps. 37:23-24

We will be leaving soon....

A week from now we will be in Germany meeting the Teen Missions team and soon boarding out plane for Russia. We are very anxious to get started on our projects at the camp in Krasnaya Niva. We're wondering what it will look ..... the weeds will probably be 10 feet high!! Eivind and I will be there until October 1 so hopefully much can be accomplished for the LORD. Please pray with us for the Russian teenagers who will be arriving for the camp that they will have willing hearts to serve the LORD.At this time we are in Clarksville, TN organizing our things for this summer. We're in the process of moving to Quartzsite, AZ but still have most of our household goods in TN.It was a wonderful experience the time spent in Columbia, SC. We met wonderful people there and learned much about the Russian culture and of course the language. I will NEVER be fluent but I loved the classes!!Check back after July 10 and hopefully we will have an update then.
God bless each of you.... thank you for your prayers on our behalf.
Eivind and Carol Ps 37:23-24

These are just a few photos we took while driving to and from Arizona.