Update

[CarlaSun@aol.com]

Dear Prayer Partners,

I want to apologize for the delay in responding to so many of you.  Thank you 
so much for your prayers for Kazakhstan.  I wish I could tell you the results 
but, I've been unable to find out what has happened.  I have tried in several 
ways to find out but so far we have received no news.  I'm not sure that no 
news is good news --- so, please continue to lift up Kazakhstan in your 
prayers.

There are many wonderful things happening around the Field, and yet there are 
some disturbing signs as well.  Lonnie Norris said it well when he said it 
seems like we take one step forward and then two steps backward.  Lonnie 
writes...

"I was just informed that the Volgograd City administration formally (in 
writing) denied the Volgograd church's request to do an Easter park 
celebration. They may do it anyway. I am talking about the Protestant church 
association. I have asked for more details.
Also, Violet invited pastor Yuri to bring some sort of a greeting to the kids 
she works with in her after-school social program. An Orthodox priest was 
also there and spoke. His words (Yuri's) were wonderful according to Violet 
but she was ridiculed and officially reprimanded for inviting him. "

Chuck and I returned on Saturday from a meeting and were greeted at the 
airport by Pastor Volodya.  He said he had some bad news and that we were 
having trouble with the government office of registrations.  They have placed 
us "under control."  We're not sure what all that means but there are people 
here that feel that things are moving backward...to the way they used to be 
under communism.  Let us pray not!  There is an important meeting with the 
registration office in Moscow on Thursday and Friday this week.  Please pray 
with us.  

Good news from Ukraine!  This last weekend there were ministry teams in 
Eastern and Western Ukraine.  The team in Eastern Ukraine included a medical 
team.  They were only in a particular town for 1 day.  The line was so 
incredibly long to see the doctors, they were overwhelmed.  Over 300 people 
showed up.  They kept the clinic open for 15 hrs but finally the doctors were 
exhausted and had to go.  Please pray that we may open a work in this town in 
the Crimea.

While the doctors were out in the east, another team was out in Western 
Ukraine.  A group there was requesting membership classes.  PTL.  Bob and 
Colleen Skinner, along with national workers, and their children headed out 
west.  Colleen and the children led special services for the children, while 
the adults studied about the Church of the Nazarene.  We praise the Lord for 
our missionary kids who are missionaries in their own right!

Next week the first Work and Witness team to Ukraine for this year arrives.  
Please pray for the team and leaders.

A week from Saturday a Medical/Construction team from Florida -- and a few 
other locations will arrive.  We are anticipating seeing 1000 patients in 1 
week.  Please pray for this medical team and their ministry.

Thanks so much for supporting us in prayer.  We appreciate our friends and 
prayer partners!

The CIS Field