Our Wish List

A number of folk have asked us to come up with a list of stuff that could be sent over, either by mail or by someone coming over, so here is our best shot. These are items that are either very expensive here, or not here at all. To donate, you can donate the money to our CRM account (where appropriate - just notify  us what it is for), use Paypal for a direct gift, or you can mail or send with someone (or group) coming over (see our Contact page). 

Of course, none of this includes our ongoing financial and relational needs . 

Personal Items

Foodstuff, etc:

• Graham crackers
  
• natural peanut butter (no sugar, etc.)
  
• molasses
  
• Better than Milk (soy powder, not soy protein)
• Fantastic Foods vegetarian chili, sloppy joe mix, taco mix
• dry black beans
  

For the kids:

• paperback books for the kids, classics
• iron-on patches

• any e-book you think we need
  
• Here is our (pretty much Lyle's) Amazon wish list:
  

Birthdays:

• Lyle: September 16th
• Diana: August 27th
• Lydia: September 18th
• Kerith: November 30th
• Simon: February 20th
  

Ministry Items:

• Christian books in Russian (or donations for me to buy here)
  
• donations towards current translation needs:
• coach training, using Lifeforming Leadership Coaching 's resources
  
• counseling training for resolution of painful emotional issues
• training in the ability to clearly discern the voice of God 
• the study I wrote for husbands based on Ephesians 5:25-32
  
• future needs for translations into Russian (such as Men's Fraternity )
  
• help in developing a ministry web site
• researchers to investigate information on ministry in St. Petersburg
• help with spiritual mapping of St. Petersburg, perhaps on Google Earth
• items such as school supplies for the fledgling Christian school the boys attend (there are hardly an Christian schools in the city I know of). They also need:
  
• a 20 or so passenger school bus (they will take care of shipping it if you get it to a US port)
  

For Orphan work, etc.

• In general, most of what orphans (and the older kids we are now working with) need are things that can be bought here, so there is no point in special shipments of clothes, etc. We have yet to get involved with younger orphans to the extent that we hope to in order to be more specific. Here is a link to a ministry that does short term trips to help with orphan work here that has some good ideas for items.
  
• I need researchers to help me get the most up to date info available online (and otherwise) about orphan work here.