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October 2007—St. Petersburg, Russia A GOOD WORD FROM CAMP from Leif & Zhanya Camp

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This month has been too busy--but I really wanted to get something to you all before next month starts, Advent and all the holidays (which will be busy themselves).  I have been too busy to write the usual letter—this happens a couple of times a year, so forgive me.

Prayer requests--this month and all its busy-ness has been stressful on my family, the kids' school, Zhanya changing jobs, etc., so keep us in prayer, pray for the Siberian pastors and deacons, pray for the District president Juha Saari and his family as he will have to go on furlough soon as well. Pray for English service and those who attend and that we can grow as we begin our 4th year of worship together, pray for Olga schmidt as she has been volunteering as administrative assistant for Ingria's pro-life ministry, pray for all the Ingrian pastors and parishes as they try to endure the Russian winter.

Pictures:
Two pictures of our missionary seminar at the parish in Gatchina, a town outside of St. Petersburg.  Me, Pekka and Alexei setting up for the seminar, and then one of me presenting.  The theme was on parish growth and self-support.

The Bishop speaking at a seminar on Spiritual gifts held at the Koltushe parish.  Some members and leaders of the Koltushe parish were becoming disturbed at some of the negative influence of some of the Charismatic and Pentecostal teachings on this subject decided to organize this seminar to strengthen Lutheran pastors and parishioners in proper biblical understandings.

A picture of my leading a sing-a-long at an English language camp--this camp was organized by a secular organization, but my children and I were invited, and I was asked to help.  So I taught songs, a few folk songs and of course some Christian folk songs.

A picture of a mission presentation at English service--Ingria's Mission Sunday is always the third to last Sunday of the Church year.  Since I work on the Ingrian Missionary Committee I thought I would let those attending know a little about the Ingrian Missoin opportunities (English service also celebrates its third anniversary with the first Sunday in Advent).

This last month one of the members of the English service who teaches at International Christian Academy (formerly ICS) asked if I would lecture on the History of the Orthodox Church.  While I was there I looked into the possibility of what it would take for my children to attend there next year--tuition is 300 dollars a month a child, so it is not feasible, but I might be able to get a little discount if I teach something there (if there is something for me to teach).

Two pictures of Olga Schmidt at a conference of Presbyterian Churches held in Kiev.  She presented our pro-life materials while there (she was attending with her husband, Alexander, who although a staunch Lutheran pastor, is the dean of Students at a local Independent Presbyterian seminary in St. Petersburt).

Two pictures of the pastoral seminar in Omsk--the first is the group of pastors and presenters (the theme was Justification by Faith in Romans) after the closing worship.  The second is "in the upperroom" in the hostel at the local German Lutheran Brethren church where we were bunking—the majority of conversation, growing and learning actually happens

A picture of Pastor Fedor Tulinin, myself and Finnish Missionary Pastor Passi Guinin insulating the second floor of the garage at Pushkin--this is the sort of remodelling project a small short term group of volunteer missionaries could do.

Blessings,

Leif

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CONTACT ADDRESSES Feedback, questions, whatever are most welcome.

Our Russian home address: Leif and Zhanya Camp 18 line V. O. dom 43 Kv. 7 St. Petersburg, Russia, 199178

Stateside contact address: Leif and Zhanya Camp, C/O Marli Camp 902 N. 12^th Melrose Park, IL, 60160

Russian Lutheran Church Address: Ev. Lutheran Church of Ingria in Russia Bolshaya Konyushennaya dom 8 St. Peterburg, Russia, 191186

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/ . Please feel free to share this newsletter with your Church, friends, or enemies if it might help (just please do not quote things out of context or edit my words in such a way as to change their intent). If you would like to receive a copy via e-mail, simply email me directly and ask!

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