Goodbye America, Hello Russia

I wanted to write a quick update for you all. We leave bright and
early tomorrow morning for Russia! Are we ready? I think we are all
packed, minus a few items I have to throw in one of the packs
tomorrow.
Please pray that we would trust God!! There are a lot of things that
will cause us to "freak out" and cause us to lose sight of our trust
and faith in Christ! He is the reason for this trip and we want to
gloriy Him in all we do and say! Thank you to all of you who have
committed to pray for us! We need those prayers. We will not really
have a whole lot of communication while there. When we are at camp, we
will have none. No cell phones, no internet. When we get back, we
might. So, we have to trust that God will prompt your hearts to pray
for us, because we cannot just jump on the internet and tell you that
we are doing great or that we are in bed sick, etc! :-) I am reminded
that the missionaries of old were in our situation and they trusted
God. We too, must trust God! I am excited about that, and also nervous
about it too! God is faithful and I am so glad!
It is cold in Russia and LONG days, ok, really no dark nights at all!
Pray that as we adapt to the culture and cold, and food, etc......
that Christ would be our strength and comfort. Pray that we would
refresh ourselves in the Word daily and that we would minister out of
the overflow of what Christ has done in our lives. Yes, we will be
teaching music, but as a platform to tell the kids that Christ died
for their sins. Yep, we will be doing skits, some serious and some
really funny, but all as a platform to love the kids and to show
Christ's love to them. Yes, we will be performing, but all to tell the
kids they need a Savior to rescue them from their sins and be their
King.
I will close for now. I am confident that God will get the glory from
this trip and am excited that I have such a huge number of you praying
for us on this journey!
Love, Tanya
oh, P.S. If we get stuck in Copenhagen, that is probably me. I am
trying to scheme up a way to "conveniently" miss our flight and get
stuck there for a few extra hours. I have not come up with too many
good ideas, one involves being "sick"........