WE ARE LEAVING TOMORROW!!!

Well, at this point, we either have it in a bag or we don't! We had a fantastic dinner at La Fuente last night - getting our Mexican food fix before we go and eat the same thing for 8 days solid! Not all Russian food is tasteless, but compared to our Italien, Chinese, Thai, Indian, American and Mexican - among countless others - they just have, well...Russian food.

I wish I could truly convey how cohesive our group is this year! Instead of spending the first few days bonding, we are already bonded and as prepped as we are going to be to tackle this large job. We cannot wait to meet the 50 kids at Velikoretskoye. We have been making ourselves laugh when we talk about different parts of the VBS we are doing. Yet at the same time, we all have that tentative 'We are only 4 people,' floating around in our heads. It's hard to imagine for these 3 ladies, who haven't been part of a Russia VBS team before, what our time will look like with the kids. But I have been preaching flexibility for months now, and I am pretty sure they have caught on! I am so confident in God's provision for these women, and in His movement throughout our time in Russia. I feel like there was prep work last year in the vision trip, and there are so many positive letters coming to sponsors ALREADY! We only spent a day and half with them last year, yet they ALREADY want to know all they can about their sponsors, AND their sponsors friends! I cannot wait to walk through those doors and see what God is going to do in the 5 days we are with the Velikoretskoye kids!

Please pray for our travels tomorrow, and our sleep on the plane. We hit the ground runnin' once we hit Moscow and we won't have a shower until we get to Kirov Friday morning.

We will post to the blog as soon as we can, but please do not get nervous if you don't see anything posted! No news is GOOD NEWS! Especially when you are travelling international!

in Jesus' mission,

Stephanie