Entering the Blogosphere!
Brett Phillips
So I've added a blog account to our Google profile. This means we can start penning our memories before they're forgotten! Often our newsletter contains just a portion of the daily activities we encounter while living in Russia.I hope you'll continue to pray for us and support us in what we're doing here in Russia.
Just to make it clear, our long-term goal is to be part of the House of Hope team on Sakhalin Island.
Right now, however, we are living in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia. I'm studying the Russian Language at the Siberian Federal University, and Janene and the boys are studying Russian for 6 hours a week (3 days x 2 hours) at a language school in the city.
So I would consider this to be our "training phase", as we learn to live as much like Russians as we can before getting directly involved with the daily life of the House of Hope.
We will be flying to Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk on Friday December 20 in order to prepare and lodge our documents to obtain a 3 year temporary residency permit there. The process includes several medical tests for all of us, and lining up at midnight in the winter snow outside a government building in order to get our applications in first.
Please keep this as a major prayer point, as it is a vital step in the process of staying in Russia long-term.
Thanks again for your encouragement and support!
