We are currently sitting in a hotel in Florida on our way to Bradenton for prayer meeting tonight.  We have traveled over 8,000 miles in the past two months and have visited 17 churches.  We are surprised at the price of gas.  We thought gas was high in Ukraine (and it is higher) but we do not normally travel this many miles in such a short time.  God has been good to us and has supplied all our needs. Praise the Lord. It has been very good to get back into our eastern supporting churches and reacquaint ourselves with folks and meet new friends.

    Pastor Slava Kratko and BIMI Missionary Robert Fuller have returned to Ukraine.  Both Slava and Robert were given opportunities to preach and share their testimonies at Deaf Baptist Fellowship of America in Oklahoma City and various other deaf churches along the way.  I would like to share one blessing that we heard last week.  On the way back to the airport in Philadelphia, both men stopped in at a deaf church in Ohio.  There they met Zhanna.  She was born in Ukraine and at the age of 12, her parents moved to America.  Zhanna is deaf and she saw Slava preached.  After church, Slava asked her how she became saved.  She did not give a clear testimony of salvation.  That morning Zhanna accepted Christ as her Savior.  Praise the Lord.  To think, a Ukrainian man came all the way from Ukraine to led a young deaf Ukrainian woman to Christ. AMEN

    We also just finished up two weeks of CAMP BIMI in Chattanooga, TN.  Allow me to tell you a few things about CAMP BIMI.  It is seven days long with over 40 hours of intensive training - teaching young people about life as a missionary or full time service.  Some of the classes ranged from "How Do I Know If I Am Called", "Cultural Adaptation", "Language Barriers", "Raising a Family On The Mission Field" to "What Do Missionaries Do Anyway."  These classes are taught by veteran BIMI missionaries and some colleges even give credit for completing the course.  There were a total of 78 who attended this year, ages 16 to 39, both married and single.  Many made life changing decisions.  

    One of the couples approached us about God's calling in their life - working in Ukraine with orphans.  We received an e-mail from them a couple of days ago.  They are planning on coming to Simferopol, Ukraine for a survey trip in November.  Please pray for the Baileys.  There was also a single woman that wants to come to Ukraine to work with orphanage children and teach missionary children.

    Simferopol Baptist Church - Teen Camp REPORT:  I received a phone call from Bro. David Sloan last Friday to say that the place that we had camp last year and had reserved for camp again this year, cancelled our reservations.  With about 100 young people scheduled to come in just one week, this sent everyone scattering to find a new location.  I just got off the phone with Bro. David and it seems that all is well, or at least better.  They have found substitute housing for the young people.  All the meals will be cooked and served at our church.  This again shows us the importance of having our own camp ground.

    Other news in Simferopol. Bible Clubs are being held this week at our home. Twenty-four children were in attendance today.  This Sunday is Church in the Woods and there are between eight and ten scheduled to be baptized.   A new deaf church is in the making in the city of Evapatoria.  They have already rented the building.  Please pray for this new ministry.

    Lighthouse Baptist Church in Sevastopol celebrated her 9th anniversary last Sunday. It has been a blessing to watch that church mature through the years. Lord willing, we will ordain Andrei (now their deacon) as pastor when Judy and I return in September.

    Thank you for your prayers for us.  We will be traveling a lot this month as we will be in 12 churches.