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March 2006 —
(Click on St. Paul Photo Albums
to see photos of the Camp’s work
and life. This month’s are here. More info at the bottom of
the page.)
Ephesians
6:17 And take the helmet of
salvation,
and the sword of the Spirit, which
is the
word of God; 18 praying always with
all
prayer and supplication in the Spirit, being
watchful
to this end with all perseverance
and
supplication for all the saints --
March is almost over--but we
still have two more seminars to do--today we are headed for Nizhniy Novgorod,
and I wanted to send this before we left (and as my computer is breaking, I
don't know if I will be able to when I return).
Again, we have had an overwhelming amount of work--it seems to get more
and more. And this month is document
season--we have to get our documents in order to extend our living permits and
get all the forms and documents in order so that we can leave for our visit to
the USA this Summer (and return without any problems). We still have some more work this month: I
have been sent there by the Ingrian Lutheran
Missionary Committee to hold a Mission Seminar for the Volga District. While there we will stay over a couple of
days to hold a Pro-life workshop with youth.
This will be a joint conference with the local Catholic Parish and God
willing some of the Russian Orthodox--keep that in prayer, and we will report
on that next month. Forgive me, but I
don't think I will actually get the usual prayer letter done this month (but
prayer requests will be included in this "cover" letter).
- A word or two about the pictures: At the end of February, my wife was
invited to be a participant in a women's retreat out at Pushkin. Pushkin's Pastor, Fedor Tulinin, just happens to volunteer his time managing
the Ingrian Pro-Life Website, so when my wife
arrived, they decided to take a few moments during the retreat to give a
short talk on pro-life. Luckily Zhanya happened to have with her a few of our pro-life
brochures. As happens so often,
many women commented on the need for more information (and a couple
scolded my wife for not having more brochures!) One picture--the women milling around
during a break. As part of my work
for the Missionary Committee I am called to participate in various
district work.
This month the Ingrian Missionary
Committee held a district conference for the western Ingermanland
district (the District of villages outside of
- Two pictures--one of the side view of the Gubanitza church and the other of us singing at the
altar. Deacon Ivan Laptev, who works out at Koltushe
but is also very active in youth work, has organized some youth evangelism
training at St. Michael's. I was
invited a couple of times, once to give a short talk and answer questions
on "personal evangelism" methods and another time to participate
and lead some songs. The youth have
decided to start a discussion club to which they can invite their
friends--each week there will be a theme to discuss over tea and munchies
(with the idea being that the discussion leads up to what God's Word has
to say about that week's theme).
- One picture of me discussing with one work
group. At the Gubanitza
district conference I met with pastor Kiosti who
leads the congregation in Hietimyaki. He invited me out to the parish to
present on Stewardship--and I also gave my short pro-life talk and
distributed our literature. This congregation
was initially founded in 1700 and served 52 villages (and ultimately had
over 6000 members). In 1778 they
finished building their first church building (the old BW picture below)
which stood until the Communists destroyed it in 1930 (the picture is of
one of the last services in 1929).
In 1995 with help from Finnish partners they set up this new
church--sort of "mobile home" style. There are now over 100 members with an
average worship attendance of 50.
- 3 pictures--the old church, the new church and me
presenting. This last Sunday,
immediately after English Worship, I slung 40 pounds of guitar, computer,
projector and prolife material on my back, and
with my son Karl in tow, via metro and taxibus
headed out for the Suburban parish in Turyo. This parish was founded in 1642, although
the present building wasn't built until the 1830s. I was invited out there by one of the
youth leaders I met at the St. Michael's youth evangelism training to give
a talk to youth on Prolife. One of the chaperones, a woman of about
55, came up to me afterwards almost in tears almost begging me to arrange
to come to her parish to give a similar talk. She said that her age group needed to
hear this so they could first repent and second help their married
daughters--she again underlined the lack of information available on
abortion and related issues.
- Three pictures--one of Karl standing in front of
the Church, one of the congregation at worship (we made it for the end of
their worship service), and one of the seminar (you might be able to make
out the slide of a 10 week old fetus on the projector screen).
Before the new
year a water pipe in the central offices sprung a leak--it has finally
been fixed. I grabbed my tools to help
measure and cut access panels for the new shut-off valves (there were about 6
different panels).
Please keep in prayer the
following:
- our documents--that all be done in time; our
preparations for our visit this Summer to the
- for the continued pro-life work--many pastors and
deacons are becoming more interested, and some have expressed a desire for
some specific, top-notch training on how to better counsel and give
spiritual care for women and families on this issue;
- I am not sure what to pray for on this, but at
the last seminar, my lap-top broke--the hinge that attaches the screen to
the base just broke (the anchors split, so I can't really repair it). It is useable, but will not travel well
(especially on Russian transport).
- Also, the battery cover on my digital camera has
broken (I am able to hold it in place with rubber bands, but this too, is
temporary).
- I suppose pray that my tools hold up as they are
very helpful in my work and service to God and the Church here.
- Pray for our visit to Nizhniy Novgorod, for the
Volga district, for pro-life, pray for the youth evangelists at St.
Michael's, pray for the more than 20 building projects that the Church of Ingria is responsible for completing (what happens is
the government tosses a building back to the Church which then is
obligated to repair it--if the Church refuses a building then the
government says it has no right to it in the future).
- And as we pray every week at English
Worship: pray for all those Ingrian pastors who are struggling financially-
especially those who are facing the decision to leave the ministry in
order to provide for their families the basics of life, a home, food, and
clothes. Strengthen their faith in You and Your provision, and then provide for them out
of Your generous love and grace.
- Open the hearts of those who have access to funds
to aid in this regard so that they may help according to Your will.
Please send us your prayer
requests--we will include them in the general prayers at English Worship (and
in our home prayers).
Blessings (and again, sorry I
couldn't do the normal prayer letter format--I actually have a lot to report
on, maybe too much.)
In Christ,
Leif & Zhanya Camp
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Click on St. Paul Photo Albums
to see photos of the Camp’s work
and life. This month’s are here
and descriptions are below:
CONTACT ADDRESSES Feedback, questions, whatever are most welcome.
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Our Russian home address: Leif and Zhanya Camp 18 line V. O. dom 43 Kv. 7 |
Stateside contact address: Leif and Zhanya Camp, C/O Marli Camp 902 N. 12th |
Ev. Bolshaya Konyushennaya dom 8 |
Telephone: after getting an international line by dialing 011, dial 7- 812 (our area code) 321-1508(our phone number)
Note—Between St. Petersburg and central US time, the difference is 9 hours. Stateside contact telephone: 708-344-4472
E-MAIL: lzkcamp(at symbol)mail.ru & leif.camp(at symbol)elci.ru. Prolife web site
with Russian materials you can down load: prolife.elci.ru. Other websites: Lisa Stapp has set up a
website which has some of our last newsletters (with their cover letters and
pictures): http://www.worthywomanpage.com/camp/index.html.
Also my mother's home congregation has our newsletters--the latest can be
downloaded from: http://www.stpaulmp.org/camp/
a second site archives our past newsletters since 2002 http://www.stpaulmp.org/archives/ .
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