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		<title>Krasnoyarsk, Siberia: Mary Poppins Bag</title>
		<description><![CDATA[February 5, 2010:  Correctional School 
The team visited a correctional school this morning. When we mention a &#8220;correctional school&#8221;, you may wonder what it is. I know that I was curious, since this is my first trip to Siberia. A correctional school is a special school for folks with emotional and mental disabilities. The students put [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Krasnoyarsk, Siberia: The Cottage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[February 5 2010:  Beryozovskaya School for the Deaf  
The Director, Staff and Children anxiously awaited our visit. This school prepares children with the basic fundamentals of sign language. Then at age 8 or 9 they are sent to other schools to continue their studies. Many are totally deaf and other wear hearing aids for limited [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Krasnoyarsk, Siberia: Our Dreams a Reality</title>
		<description><![CDATA[February 2, 2010 
When we were in Krasnoyarsk last year, several of us were interested in visiting more remote orphanages.  At our final dinner, the leader of the church we work in this area asked us if we would visit sites out in the remote villages when we returned the following year.  This was an answer [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.gainusa.org/archives/233</link>
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		<title>Krasnoyarsk, Siberia: &#8220;Driven&#8221; to my Knees</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The ice-covered road to Primorsk snaked up, around and down the mountain.  Pastor Pasha guided the 100+ kph vehicle expertly, but we now know why he encourages people to pray more fervently.  We enjoyed the scenery with quaint villages where homes had had 2 feet of snow on the rooftops.  Thick forests of pine and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.gainusa.org/archives/232</link>
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		<title>Krasnoyarsk, Siberia: Twister, Bells and Chicken</title>
		<description><![CDATA[February 1, 2010 

What do Twister, bells, and the chicken dance all have in common?  They were part of the fun we had today at Emiliovsky Children’s Home.  Our group of boys, aged 9-14, seemed to enjoy all the activities.  When we first entered the room they were seated around a table, but we soon had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Krasnoyarsk, Siberia: &#8220;Will you come back?&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[February 1, 2010 
I was so excited to be back at the children’s home today to see the children we saw last year. The kids seemed very excited to see us again. They paid close attention as we performed a skit and sang songs. 

Today, our small group had the opportunity to share pictures. The kids were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Krasnoyarsk, Siberia: The Road Less Traveled</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This morning our caravan of 6 cars departed the hotel at 7:15 am. The temperature was -32.8 F. We traveled to Divnogorsk, about an hour away, to pick up some of our interpreters and then the journey began.  Our driver Ivan drove over the snowy and icy road ways with keen agility. Our caravan progressed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.gainusa.org/archives/229</link>
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		<title>Update from Jamaica</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The mission trip continues to go well in Jamaica.  The team of high schoolers from LCBC are great!!

It is Thursday evening and we just finished day 4 of the VBS in Mammee River.  Ken Christian is the deacon in charge of the Mammee River church plant and he told me today that it is by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Update from Jamaica</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is Tuesday evening and we have just completed day 2 of the VBS at Mammee River near Kingston.  Things are going well.  Many young people, and adults, have been touched.  And there are many unchurched people attending.  Pray that God touches their heart and that they respond to the Good News.  The VBS runs [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.gainusa.org/archives/227</link>
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		<title>Update from Jamaica</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The youth team from LCBC arrived in Kingston yesterday evening and had a great trip.  This week they will be helping to conduct a VBS in the Mammee River church plant just outside of Kingston.

Today the team attending a very warm and very long service at the church in Mammee River. We can tell that [...]]]></description>
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