MAY...MAY DAY...MAYDAY?
With visas and plane tickets in hand, Lena, Maya & I are set to travel to Tashkent, Uzbekistan on Thursday. From the 4th until the 9th we will be helping to train leaders from across Central Asia. However, while our personal plans have come together, the training seminar itself is in jeopardy due to lack of sponsorship.
It is very difficult to conduct training events in the former Soviet Union without financial aid from the outside. It is a major responsibility each year for CCI/Russia president Alexander Kharitonov to contact potential sponsors, mostly from the United States. We just received word that the sponsor for the Tashkent seminar has not come through with the money pledged. Now we are scrambling to find enough funds to pay for the facility rental, food and other expenses.
Please join with us in prayer that the needed funds will arrive in time (the latest would be Thursday).
Thank you for praying!!!
– Kevin, Lena, Sonia, Maya & Deena
COMING TO CANADA
We asked for more choices last week, and another possible home was made known to us. It is good to have options, but we are still faced with not knowing when we can expect to travel to Canada. We are waiting for answers from the Canadian Embassy in Moscow as to when we could possibly expect to receive visas for Lena & Sonia. Please join with us in praying that they will respond soon so that we can begin to plan our move. Remember that we still have to sell our apartment before we leave–and we don't know when we can put it on the market!
BLESSINGS
Answered prayer from last week! Praise the Lord, I have received my third consecutive Uzbek visa. Now I can freely travel to Tashkent in time for the Staff Training Workshop.
PETITIONS
Please pray that sufficient funds will be found for the Staff Training Workshop in Tashkent. We need two to three thousand dollars by Thursday.
Nina will be staying with Deena & Sonia during our time in Uzbekistan. Please pray for her strength and health & safety for all three of the girls.
Please remember Lena, Maya & I in prayer as we fly on Thursday. You can pray for a safe journey and good health as we spend five intensive days training staff. Pray also for Maya that she will remain healthy (she is just getting over a cold).
DID YOU KNOW...
...that May Day was known as International Workers' Day back in Soviet days? Now the first two days of May are "Spring and Labor" days.
...that we likely will not have access to the internet while we are in Uzbekistan? This means that Hamm Prayer Points will be missing from your inboxes next Monday.
...that the old "subscribe or unsubscribe" email address of hpp@krhamm.com is now defunct? Please instead use the addresses listed in this email or write to us at kevin@krhamm.com.
ESSENTIAL INFO
Kevin & Lena Hamm are missionaries with Mennonite Brethren Mission and Service International, serving with Christian Camping International/Russia in St. Petersburg, Russia.
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