My boss just called me to offer me my job full time! Yea! I get to start officially tomorrow!
:).
-Jessica

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Hi everyone. Thanks for sharing in our trip to Russia. Thank you so much, Dad, for being our scribe and writing so well. We appreciated having you relay some of our stories and prayer needs.
It was a good trip and very diverse in all that happened. It was just enough to whet our appetites to [...]

Hi, this is Ward. Communications have been very difficult to make, and the days rolled by. I had been given a phone number by Jessica at the desk (or whatever the main management location is) for their hotel. Unfortunately, Jessi and Adam were out working, ministering, interacting, sightseeing, eating or whatever during their normal waking [...]

Well, we finally heard again from Adam and Jessica on Sunday. It was a long draught, from Tuesday to Sunday, but it sounds like they had a good time developing new relationships and sharing the love of Christ. But the week wasn’t without it’s surprises. The Team did not get to use too many of [...]

Hi, it’s Ward again with a continuing report on Jessica and Adam’s trip.
Notable Events:
-After their Saturday night arrival in St. Petersburg, the Team attended their host Church with their main contact person, Max Borissov. The Church has about 35 members, so the Team of ten Americans (with their newly joined Team-mates of 4 young adult, [...]

this is Ward again, and I’m still learning the ropes here….. I typed the meaasge (below), and I thought I did what I was supposed to do to post it to the web, but it seemed not to show up, so here is attempt #2. Sorry if it appear twice, but anyway, here’s the message
Hi. [...]

Hi, this is Ward Rau, Jessica’s dad.
Jessi and Adam have asked me to keep you up to date with the events and details of their trip as they make them known to us. As you might know, or would likely suspect, technology is a little behind in many areas of Russia, and they have [...]

It’s been a total mad dash, as per usual, but we’re 3 minutes away from walking out the door. Totally excited, slightly frazzled. We’ll feel absolutely fantastic once that plane is taking off. Much love and tremendous blessings to all of you.
—A.

All my bags are packed, I’m ready to go, I’m standing here outside your door…
Our bags are packed, and we keep finding more things that we need to bring. Really, our clothes are the very least of it all. I have often packed more clothes for a weekend than for these two weeks abroad. Still [...]