Woodland Hills Church of Christ

June was a very wet and mostly cool month. It rained every day for about10 or 12 days sometime during the day. And we even needed a light jacket on several days. We read on the news that you have been having lots of rain also.

Budyonnevski celebrated their 10^th anniversary June 20^th. David and Janette Ingram were here for the occasion and stayed all that week. They had a nice program after worship with the teens and smaller children putting on the program. We had a few pictures that reminded us of 1994 and showed those with our projector. We will have some movies to show when we return to America. Then to cap the week, on the next Sunday two precious souls from the Budyonnevski congregation were baptized into Christ by David. They were Leonid’s sister-in-law who had just recently lost her husband to cancer, and Leonid’s and Lena’s daughter Dasha.

At Proletarski we added one soul, a lady who is diabetic, blind and has had both legs amputated. Ray and Lynn report they are very nice people. That food program is now helping about 50 needy people get more food that is desperately needed. It is funded by the benevolent fund of NorthRidge and contributions from Ray and Lynn’s home congregation of Woodland Hills near Memphis, Tn.

We received three boxes of medical supplies from the Ladies Class of the Longview congregation. Much of it has been distributed to orphan homes where it is needed the most.

They were really impressed and appreciative.

Our application for improving the building was finally approved by the city architect after setting on his desk for a month. The word is here that he was probably wanting some money to hurry it up. It is just part of doing business here. Even though we get very anxious and frustrated we just have to wait them out. Now we are waiting for the project working plan drawn by our architect to be approved so we can start work on the roof. We really saw how much we needed it during all the rain lately. We have leaks in one class room and the heater room.

One of my hearing aids quit, so we asked Penny to find my old ones and send them to me. She did and insured them for $1500. When they arrived at the post office here they would not let me have them until I sent to the customs office and paid duty on them because they were valuable $1500 worth. I refused and told them they were old and had no real worth. So they sent them back. I hope they get back. So a lesson, if you send anything here, don’t insure it.

Love and thanks to all,

Gene and Mary

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