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Dear Family and Friends,
First of all, thank you all so much for your prayers and for supporting God's work here in Samara. As a result, God's word is being proclaimed and His church is being strengthened. Praise the Lord -- you are praying, God is answering. Please keep on praying for us and for our precious brothers and sisters here in Samara!
First of all, thank you all so much for your prayers and for supporting God's work here in Samara. As a result, God's word is being proclaimed and His church is being strengthened. Praise the Lord -- you are praying, God is answering. Please keep on praying for us and for our precious brothers and sisters here in Samara!
In September we started our fourth group of students in the Samara Institute for Preachers. As with other groups, this one also is a good mix of eager young guys and more experienced pastors. Some are coming from a long ways away. They all want to make the most of their gifts and preach God's word with greater accuracy and boldness for the glory of God. Please pray that these 70 men will continue and graduate as planned in May 2008.
The 160 men who have already graduated are impacting Russia for Christ. Some churches of graduates have thanked us and asked us to thank you all for training these men because "their progress is evident to all" (1st Tim 4:15).
In September another 2-week session of the Krasnodar Institute was completed. Fifty men are currently studying and they too will graduate in May 2008 Lord willing. Please pray for the students at Krasnodar!
Also in May 2008 our 17 seminary students hope to graduate. They're well into their 2nd year of full time studies. We're enjoying getting to know the guys better this year so that we can more personally minister to their needs. We try to have one or two families over for dinner each week and last week we enjoyed having all the bachelors over for pizza.
Please pray for the seminary students to grow in love and humility.
In October we were richly blessed to attend the 50th anniversary of Grace Community Church in Los Angeles. For the first time, all the missionaries that they support (61 families) came home from all over the world to celebrate the momentous occasion and to take part in an unforgetable conference and celebration. We had a wonderful time! The boys enjoyed fellowship with other missionary kids their age. We were overwhelmed and deeply humbled by the outpouring of love from members of Grace. They showered us with gifts and many sincere words of encouragement.
We were also blessed to get together with our new friends the Hodges! They came over from Grace Church last summer as a short term missions team to help do an evangelistic youth camp.
Jake and Jordan are continuing to do well in their home studies and with their music lessons. They've really become independent self-learners and exemplary young men. (Editor's comment - they have a Mom who has sacrificed much toward this goal!!!)
Our seminary wives group is meeting 2 times a month - once for Bible lesson, once for craft and fellowship. The women say it's like a breath of fresh air. They like learning to decorate their homes with crafts and learning to bake American recipes. In spring I taught the women to make pizza and recently one of them said "I've been doing just like you - inviting everyone over and making them your pizza." Another lady told me last week that she gathered 8 other ladies together and taught them how to make it. It's great to see them passing on what they've learned. (Is this 2Timothy 2:2? : )
In addition to praying for all our students, John's teaching and preaching ministry, and our boys' home schooling, please also continue to pray for my language ability. I've been really working hard on my Russian and am tape recording the ladies' Bible study that I attend on Thursday nights. For a long time now I've been able to understand the Bible lesson part, but I still have trouble understanding all the chit chat that goes on around the table before the lesson and also the prayer requests. I can get the drift but not the details. I'm trying to be consistent in reading a Russian book (children's novel). Then I write down all the words that I don't know and work on learning them. I feel this is the way to increase my understanding. But you could really help! Please pray that God will give me greater ability in Russian!
Well, that's all from here for now. We'd love to hear from you. If you haven't written for a while, please take a minute just to drop us a line and let us know how you're doing, or how we might pray for you!
Your servants for Christ in Samara Russia,
Danese for John, Jake and Jordan Snyder
First of all, thank you all so much for your prayers and for supporting God's work here in Samara. As a result, God's word is being proclaimed and His church is being strengthened. Praise the Lord -- you are praying, God is answering. Please keep on praying for us and for our precious brothers and sisters here in Samara!
First of all, thank you all so much for your prayers and for supporting God's work here in Samara. As a result, God's word is being proclaimed and His church is being strengthened. Praise the Lord -- you are praying, God is answering. Please keep on praying for us and for our precious brothers and sisters here in Samara!
In September we started our fourth group of students in the Samara Institute for Preachers. As with other groups, this one also is a good mix of eager young guys and more experienced pastors. Some are coming from a long ways away. They all want to make the most of their gifts and preach God's word with greater accuracy and boldness for the glory of God. Please pray that these 70 men will continue and graduate as planned in May 2008.The 160 men who have already graduated are impacting Russia for Christ. Some churches of graduates have thanked us and asked us to thank you all for training these men because "their progress is evident to all" (1st Tim 4:15).
In September another 2-week session of the Krasnodar Institute was completed. Fifty men are currently studying and they too will graduate in May 2008 Lord willing. Please pray for the students at Krasnodar!
Also in May 2008 our 17 seminary students hope to graduate. They're well into their 2nd year of full time studies. We're enjoying getting to know the guys better this year so that we can more personally minister to their needs. We try to have one or two families over for dinner each week and last week we enjoyed having all the bachelors over for pizza.
Please pray for the seminary students to grow in love and humility.
In October we were richly blessed to attend the 50th anniversary of Grace Community Church in Los Angeles. For the first time, all the missionaries that they support (61 families) came home from all over the world to celebrate the momentous occasion and to take part in an unforgetable conference and celebration. We had a wonderful time! The boys enjoyed fellowship with other missionary kids their age. We were overwhelmed and deeply humbled by the outpouring of love from members of Grace. They showered us with gifts and many sincere words of encouragement.
We were also blessed to get together with our new friends the Hodges! They came over from Grace Church last summer as a short term missions team to help do an evangelistic youth camp.
Jake and Jordan are continuing to do well in their home studies and with their music lessons. They've really become independent self-learners and exemplary young men. (Editor's comment - they have a Mom who has sacrificed much toward this goal!!!)
Our seminary wives group is meeting 2 times a month - once for Bible lesson, once for craft and fellowship. The women say it's like a breath of fresh air. They like learning to decorate their homes with crafts and learning to bake American recipes. In spring I taught the women to make pizza and recently one of them said "I've been doing just like you - inviting everyone over and making them your pizza." Another lady told me last week that she gathered 8 other ladies together and taught them how to make it. It's great to see them passing on what they've learned. (Is this 2Timothy 2:2? : )In addition to praying for all our students, John's teaching and preaching ministry, and our boys' home schooling, please also continue to pray for my language ability. I've been really working hard on my Russian and am tape recording the ladies' Bible study that I attend on Thursday nights. For a long time now I've been able to understand the Bible lesson part, but I still have trouble understanding all the chit chat that goes on around the table before the lesson and also the prayer requests. I can get the drift but not the details. I'm trying to be consistent in reading a Russian book (children's novel). Then I write down all the words that I don't know and work on learning them. I feel this is the way to increase my understanding. But you could really help! Please pray that God will give me greater ability in Russian!
Well, that's all from here for now. We'd love to hear from you. If you haven't written for a while, please take a minute just to drop us a line and let us know how you're doing, or how we might pray for you!
Your servants for Christ in Samara Russia,
Danese for John, Jake and Jordan Snyder
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