Peace to you, Brothers and Sisters!

We are a Union of Churches in the Yaroslavl Region (of Russia). Thank you very much for the financial resources you provided for our summer camp. May God bless you and fulfill of your needs. You were a part of our youth camp which took place on the bank of Rybinsk reservoir. Your financial support was a great blessing for the youth that were able to attend that camp.

We had our camp from July 16 - 21 this year and we had 20 people attend. Most of the kids were teenagers and youth from 12 up to 22 years old from different places. Five children were non-believers and two of them prayed to accept Christ! We thank God and you, because for those children it was very important to have the opportunity to be at the camp. We selected leaders from the groups of kids and motivated them to be more responsible and to show initiative, to seek the will of God and to grow spiritually. During the time of the camp God taught us to overcome difficulties, to be strong, to love and forgive, and how to make friends.  As a result many young people came to know the Lord.

It was interesting to see how during the first few days kids were getting used to each other, were adapting, were changing and were quite different by the end of the second day. We could really witness those changes!

In addition, many non-believing youth found out about our camp, and many of them expressed the desire to join us at our camp in 2008! Praise the Lord! This year we were able to buy a large folding table with benches; this is wonderful. We are very thankful to you for that. In 2006 our tents were tested by strong winds, this year it was raining really hard for 2 days. But our tents have gone through this test well—the tents stayed dry inside. Thank you again for your financial help – with our own resources we wouldn’t be able to buy such big and quality tents, sleeping bags, equipment, mattresses and sports equipment. God has richly blessed our region through you. Teenagers and youth are the great future potential of the churches, future ministers. You have planted seeds well into the ground.

 

With love and gratitude to you,

Brothers and Sisters from “Blagodat” (Grace) Church

Pastor Vitaly R.

2007