314 - Buying firewood for Aalina Lipina from Ust-Kulom. She is a needy lady, has
been beaten a lot by her boyfriend. We shared the Gospel with her and invited her
to church. December 2005
315 - Helping Anatoly Rassykhaev and his former wife, from Ust-Kulom. Anatoly Rassykhaev
is a former prisoner who is now out of prison and is wanting to straighten his life
out. He heard the Gospel in prison. After getting out of prison, he fell several
times, yet later started attending church. Now he is trying to find a job and support
his family. Pastor Alexei and we have done counseling with the man and his former
wife. We let them know that first they need to repent and later quit smoking, living
out of wedlock and so on. They seem to want to change. We covered part of their electric
debt and their grocery debt.
316 - Welded up on ice auger and a horse collar.
317 - Hauled sugar “6-100lb. bags” for another settlement to Don for different people
who needed and asked.
318 - Hauled three pine trees from forest.
319 - Buying a thick hose for the heating system of a man called Feodor. He is a
needy gentleman from Don who was having problems with his heating system.
320 - Buying a jacket and boots for needy Slava, a boy from Ust-Kulom. He has been
visiting Pastor Alexei’s church in Ust-Kulom. His mom, called Elizabeth, is sort
of mentally challenged. December 30, 2005
321 - Buying food for Tamara, our dear sister in Christ, member of the church. She
was left by her husband, and is now living with her little son Pavel. She needed
to buy food. January 2006
322 - Covering medical expenses for Natalia, an elderly lady from Ust-Kulom professing
to be a Christian. She attends Pastor Alexei’s church in Ust-Kulom. She has been
having many health problems. January, 2006
323 - Supporting the kindergarten of Don. Erma, Anatoly’s wife, is now the official
director of the kindergarten. Erma also runs our Sunday school for kids and has been
one of the most faithful students of the Bible in our church. She used to work as
a laundry lady at the same kindergarten. We bought food as Christmas presents for
the kids; bulbs and light gear for the rooms there (their lights would not work properly).
Fixed their light fixtures with Ted (the American). January 2006
324 - Helping the medical office of Don. The local doctor is a Christian. Got baptized
in our church. Their heating system was not working properly–one of the valves was
leaking. We replaced the valve for them. They appreciated the help. February 8,
2006
325 - Repaired or replaced 15 light fixtures, kindergarten of Don. The director
Erma is one of our best Christians and leading Children’s church.
326 - Spent one day installing three entrance lights and switches to teacher’s building,
by request of our new mayor of Don since January 1, was very thankful.
327 - Delivered boiler we had welded up to the TB Center for children in Loguod.
They were very glad to see us again.
328 - Took five men to forest. They cut firewood all day, then I returned to pick
them up.
329 - Local school asked us to bring our rivet gun and help put together twelve chairs
plus drill eight holes in concrete for new chalk board.
330 - The internet called and wanted us to come show children Christmas videos twice
a week nights, plus share and play a few Christian songs. Most of these children
are semi-mentally challenged.
331 - Mayor of Don called and asked if we would take the tool we have and put twenty
wooden chairs together in the school of Shereog. Both were very thankful.
332 - Took Anatoli and three friends to forest to check out new site to cut logs
for the new saw mill God has helped them start with hopes of putting many people
to work and prayerfully lead some to Christ.
333 - Local doctor called and asked if we could buy some medicine for a baby whose
family was very needy. Our local doctor is faithful Christian who attends church
regularly with her daughter.
334 - Local boy brought over his sled for repair. Replaced four rivets.
335 - The new mayor of Don asked us to get some insulation material for the local
Culture Hall of Don. They were having some problems with their heat system there
because the building was not insulated well. We are having good relations with the
new mayor. She is Antoni’s(?) sister. The new mayor has asked us to give her a few
Christian tapes to listen to . We gave her tapes and she appreciated that a lot.
January 2006 (?=Illegible)
336 - Helping Natasha’s son Alexei (from Don) get a passport for Alexei. Natasha
is a local drunkard. She has two children, Alexei and little Tanya. The local mayor
called us and asked us to get a passport for Alexei because his mom had drunk all
money away. So, we took the boy to Ust-Kulom and paid for the pictures and the passport
fee. He has been to our church a few times. Now he has a passport. February 2006
337 - Paying for German’s three month stay at the Christian rehab center near Syktyvkar.
German is a guy from the settlement of Shergay who has had a serious alcohol problem.
After coming to church several times, he wanted to go to a Christian rehab center.
We saw he was sincere and paid for this stay there. We visited him recently and he
looked like a new man. January 2006
338 - Doing remont at the cafeteria at the high school of Timsher. William, three
guys from Perm, Natasha from Syktyvkar, and Sergei took part in this project. This
was a very big project, more than three weeks. (To be continued in 341.)
339 - Helping Anatoly get his sawmill started. When we heard that somebody had donated
enough money to start a sawmill, we started working on the documents for the project.
We got Anatoly registered as a private businessman, got the land and the necessary
permits for the mill. Anatoly is our Christian brother and hopefully this new business
will create jobs in the needy settlement of Don and open new horizons to preaching
the Gospel.
We have made over twenty trips to Ust-Kulom so Anatoly could get documents to
start the sawmill. Praise God, he is a solid Christian. They tell him one thing,
then, for some reason, the other people did not do the paperwork correctly. Americans
would not believe the paperwork and all the problems that come with starting a small
business. Many times Anatoli said, “ God is with me, we will overcome.” February,
March, April 2006
340 - Helping Svetlana Tarabukina’s husband from Ust-Kulom who got seriously hit
by a vehicle. The man got paralyzed and was taken to Syktyvkar for treatment. The
lady has a son who used to go to Pastor Alexei’s church in Ust-Kulom. We witnessed
to her and tried to confort her. She appreciated the message and the support. We
gave her some money.
341 - Project in Timsher: We received a call from the director of one of the largest
schools in our district wanting our help to do a complete remont in their cafeteria.
Someone donated wall panels one foot wide by eight feet tall which fits together
by use of clips. At first, they wanted us just to nail them to the wall. However,
these are white panels, and even though I had never used this material before, knew
it had a better way than the director suggested. We made a special trip to the city
to learn more about this material and learned it took special clips, so we bought
several packs, plus special corner pieces, trim, caulking, etc. First, we had to
strip old walls. At first, three young Russian Christians came to help. They stayed
around seven days. They shared nightly with several school children and staff, alto
they played guitars and one played the drum. We also set up five other settlements
for them to share, sing, and play all in our Lord’s name. After they heft, we hired
two local Komi men, although non-Christian, they agreed no drinking and smoking outside
school. After three days, one had to return and we had a young girl (Christian) named
Natasha who came to help translate even though she had not translated before, but,
a heart of gold. We also showed videos nightly. Several teachers borrowed videos.
We had a great time of seed-planting, shared with two social workers and several
staff. We also made new walls, tore out walls, filled large holes in floor. Two days,
welded on water system. Tore out areas of floor and fixed foundation, in floor joist
one full day with this alone. We bought and replaced floor boards, $250 just for
the boards. Altogether we spent about $1,000. Natasha was always sharing about our
ministry, her testimony, our Lord and Savior. A good planting season.
342 - Helping Natasha, little Nastia’s sister from Don. Little Nastia has been coming
to our church on a regular basis. Natasha is a needy lady left by her boyfriend with
a child. She got a job at the hospital in Ust-Kulom, but had no money to get there
and back, so we decided to cover her transportation expenses.
343 - Ex-mayor had a twenty-minute weld job for local library. Praise God we have
a good relationship now due to our working projects.
344 - Local doctor asked us to take three pieces of medical equipment to Ust-Kulom
for repair and in two days, return back to Don.
345 - Ex-ex-mayor asked us to weld up a new water storage tank for the east of Don.
This will allow several people to get water even though they still will have to haul
several yards away. Took a long full day to cut and weld, using four boxes of welding
rods.
346 - Fixed two sleds for local boys. Drilled holes and pop riveted.
347 - New mayor called, asked for our help to take school children to Ust-Kulom and
return them. They have no local school bus or transportation. This was for a sport
competition.
348 - Ex-mayor asked us to weld on his car. His muffler had two large holes. Yes,
at this stage, one needs a new one, but, even the ex-mayor does not have such extra
funds. His door hinge was also coming apart. We took off door, repaired and welded
hinge, then replaced door. As always, very, very thankful. We have made a very good
relationship. Thanks through our prayers, our work projects and God’s Holy Spirit.
We gave him a new Bible. He wanted me to sign it, I did with a prayer.
349 - Local man needed two pieces of pipe welded.
350 - Ex-ex-mayor needed a part welded on their old tractor.
351 - Tamara, one of our faithful sisters in Christ, who attends our church regularly
and has brought new people to our service many times, needed us to split some firewood
for her. Her husband left her with three children to raise, one of her sons received
Jesus, got married, then moved away. Another son also saved through our church was
called into Army for two years, leaving her with one eleven year old son, who tries
to do this work, but this work is even very hard for a strong man.
352 - Hauled several sacks of potatoes for a local Komi family, although they at
this time have not shown an interest for our church or God, be we showed them we
care and offered our help to ease their burdens.
353 - Hauled a piece of furniture for ex-mayo from Don to another settlement, one
and one-half hours away, to help his sister and family. They seemed very (?) And
it looked like he had bought this for them.
354 - The local doctor (our Christian sister) asked us to get some medicine for a
needy family from Don who had a baby. The local doctor was baptized in our church
and is a good sister in Christ. February 2006
355 - We did repairs at the water tower for Don. This helps maintain good relations
with the community. April 2006
356 - Buying food for a needy family in the settlement of Smol?. The man got wounded
in a conflict in the break-away republic of Chechnya. We witnessed to them and took
them to our church once. March 2006
357 - Helping little Nastia get her passport. Little Nastia has been going to our
church and she comes from a needy family. The mayor called us and asked us to pay
for the passport.
