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May 2010—St. Petersburg, Russia A GOOD WORD FROM CAMP from Leif & Zhanya Camp

(Click on http://www.flickr.com/photos/stpaulmp/ to see photos of the Camp’s work and life. These photos will not remain here indefinitely as Flickr is no longer a free service for me. The most recent 200 St. Paul photos will be displayed. -LW)

First, thanks for your prayers and your gracious support over this last year.  This summer we will be busy again in Russia, but hope to make it to the states next year.

So here is the deal, this month has been so crazy that I have not had time to write the usual prayer letter--I know, this has been happening a lot lately, but it is the truth. A list of prayer request follows and then the pictures with their explanations--I will give a bit more detail, and so it goes.

Please pray for the groups that are coming over to do language camps in Petrozavodsk and ST. Petersburg, pray for Denis, Pavil and Alexander at Turyo and their mentoring, pray for pastor Boichenko and the Nizhni Novgorod parish as he tries to extend the time limit for building. Pray for the chaplaincy program, pray that I can get more GoodNews journals in Russian language, pray for my family, our summer plans and our physical and spiritual health.  Please also pray for our good friend and Lutheran Sister in Christ Marilyn Wolf who is dying from Cancer of the Pancreas--that her way be peaceful and that she remain steadfast to the end of her worldly race so she may receive the crown that awaits her.

Chap--the Ingrian Lutheran Chaplaincy initiative is still alive and well--here we are meeting in the missionary committee office with Andrei, Alexei (the mission director) and myself.  Planning, advising, and so forth. The difficulty with this program besides financing is that the Russian Orthodox have taken the role of a state Church in Russia.  The question is always how can we partner, if possible, with them in this program?  How open can they be, can we be, etc.

EEMN--this month Pastor Bill Moberly and his wife Sally came in ahead of the group they have coming to do evangelistic English language camps--we are meeting to organize transport and other things for when the groups arrive. They return in June to St. Petes and I will be meeting them at the train when they return to St Petersburg to do a camp in Koltushe.  Zhanya has been working hard on arranging travel and so forth for the group.

FF--Friendship Force meeting--Zhanya and I have been asked to help out the Russian St. Petersburg branch of Friendship Force--here we are pictured with two of the members of the board.  This is a secular organization that was organized by a pastor to help build cultural bridges.  I have been seeking more extra-church contacts, and this seems like a good way.  Besides, those pictured are friends of Marilyn Wolf, who first came to Russia with Friendship force (which is how we met).

GNNN--here I am handing out an issue of GoodNews journal in Russian to those that attended our Pro-life seminar in Nizhniy Novgorod.  When possible I try to use an appropriate issue to underline the theme of the seminar.  Our supplies of GoodNews are limited and we are hoping we can get more--they have proven a very valuable resource.

Hymn...Two pictures of the hymnbook committee of the Ingrian Lutheran Church.  I have been asked to serve on this committee to suggest English songs that should be translated into Russian and to serve as theological advisor for translation questions.  This is interesting since one of the first projects LCMS missionaries did when they first came was help out with a hymnal (Pastor Martin Frusti was a key figure in that I believe).  One picture is our meeting in the bishop's office, the other is of some of the members singing some of the newly translated hymns (translated by the Nizhniy Novgorod parish, by the way).

Mentoring--Denis is one of the Bible teachers in Turyo that I am working with, so one thing I do is attend his Bible study and then we talk.  Denis is the young man at the head of the table.

NNPL--our Spring prolife seminar in Nizhniy Novgorod--two pictures--one of me teaching the other of tea.  The theme was restoring love in marriages (especially after sin has invaded).  Zhanya came to help out, she also helped prepare material and so forth.  The Other picture is of the church cite--the building that exists is the "parish house" and the area behind the blue fence is the proposed site for the church if the deadline can be extended.

On the road to Turyo (which separates the two pictures from Nizhniy) is a picture of me and the kids--they often travel with me to turyo as I go 2 times a month--once for working with youth through the pro-life program, the second time to mentor leaders.

KarlNastya--at graduation eating Russian donuts--they sang in the choir and played in the band during the ceremonies.

So there you have it.

Blessings,

Leif

In Christ,

Leif & Zhanya Camp

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Click on http://www.flickr.com/photos/stpaulmp/ to see photos of the Camp’s work and life. These photos will not remain here indefinitely as Flickr is no longer a free service for me. The most recent 200 St. Paul photos will be displayed. -LW.

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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