According to His Plan

Our team has been eager to get over to Chukotka  as soon as possible, but God had other plans.  Our pilots didn’t get their permits even when it was promised to be there already by the time we get to Alaska. So we got to spend a couple days in the mountains in a small village, resting, bonding, and enjoying God’s great nature and His presence all around us including the generous Alsworth family for hosting us.  This little retreat was a special gift from God to us, we felt very special and indeed we needed some rest before our trip.Two days later we received the word.  “Glen’s flying out in 30 min” some man woke me up at 7am.  Soon we were in Anchorage, met Larry, our other pilot who came to take us to Russia. Soon we were on our way to Anadyr,  the capital of Chukotka.  Because of the 2 day delay we missed our flight to Pevek, where one of our teammates Olga Mokan, was already waiting for us, we knew we’ll spend about 2 weeks ministering in Anadyr. God’s blessings were evident all around us, smooth flight to Russia, smooth transition with the border guards, they even forgave us for the enormous amount of overweight,  and some other guy offered to help us with the bags up to the barge, we had to have 3 cars take all of us with our bags.So it was Thursday, June 17^th, we were in Anadyr, and started planning how we can serve Marat and help him in his ministry, who runs a Christian Café in town, if not the only one in the whole Russia.  Sunday would be our Grand Opening of Kid’s Club, that we would run in the café every night the following week.  The Grand Opening would be at the main park in the center of the city. The girls passed out “balloon invitations” to the kids around town and the word spread quickly. We were anxious about weather, which has been cloudy and windy and rainy at times.  It was dry for all of Saturday and Sunday before our event, except it was windy.  A few minutes before the official start, as I was getting dressed up into my clown suit, it started raining hard. There were already many kids outside.  We quickly prayed for the rain to stop so that the kids would stay and we’d have a great kick off and many kids would come to our clubs. To my surprise the rain didn’t stop for the whole event, but the kids didn’t leave. The rain didn’t seem to bother them, so we did our program, or most of it and it was a great time under the rain. The kids are desperate for attention and loved us and the program. It was neat to see how one girl after about 2 hours or so was giving hugs to the girls on our team.We already had the club for two nights in a row. There was about 45 kids present and some adults. The Café was packed and we had a great time.  The kid’s loved the program, games, the funny clown, Nadya, and a puppet show.  We’ll be holding these clubs every night at the Café. Today it seems like the weather finally got better, it’s sunny outside and very pleasant.

The tickets to Pevek for the 30^th of June and July 14^th are sold out, or not available, but we pray and know that our Almighty God has a way.