A couple of months ago, I met a Russian missionary and his wife that had been living and working in Uzbekistan for the last several years. His name is Sergei and he had been a youth leader/pastor and had moved to the Kaluga region to begin new ministry. We spent much time talking and realized that we had the same goals/desires to reach out to hurting teenagers and children in the Kaluga region. Sergei knew that I worked with orphanages and told me to come to the villages with him and I will be shocked when I see the conditions that many of these kids are living in. I went with him and I was shocked! I have never experienced anything like it. We had been praying about working together and I feel strongly that God has brought us together to fulfill this purpose. He told me that he had been praying for a long time for God to bring someone along side him to help in his ministry. I had been praying for the same thing. We began ministering together only 3 weeks ago and I have already seen how powerfully God is working through him and his wife in a small city called Suhinichi near Kaluga.