This is a double layered story - one that involves me and one that involves Sveta, an interpreter that joined our team on our journey to Pavlovsk, Russia.  Let me first say that I have been continually amazed at how God selects or pairs our interpreters with their American partners.  One would think that I would settle in and trust that His choices are always perfect.

The seeds of this site go back many years. I was raised in a Christian home and accepted Christ as a child, but that didn't seem to make much difference at the time. Many years later, after lots of "fun times" and many more disaterous times, I was still struggling with life. I think that if we are really honest with ourselves, we all wrestle with every avenue of the world around us. Such was my life in 1999 when we were looking for something wonderful to do for a final family vacation before our oldest went off to college.