Dear friends and family,

I hope that this letter finds you well and rejoicing in the Lord. We are blessed daily by God’s provision and humbled to take part in God’s work in Russia.

We are writing you to ask if you would pray and consider financially supporting our ministry in Russia for 2005. As you may remember, we are currently self-supporting missionaries. However, we will not be able to continue as such beyond the coming year. Through our need, we hope that others would be able to take part in the ministry God has given us in Russia.

We hope to raise enough support for 2005 to minimize or stop the need to further deplete our savings account. Currently 85-90% of our support comes from our savings accounts, with the other 10-15% coming from Olya’s teaching salary. Olya will not be drawing a salary after the end of the 2005 school year (possibly sooner) as we are expecting our first child in September and she will want to stay home with the baby. Any financial support we receive will be reevaluated at the end of 2005 as we will continue to seek the Lord’s direction for our ministry and country of residence.

Our responsibilities here are somewhat diverse. My main activities are directing the Sunday School ministry, leading a home Bible study, and taking part in planning activities for the church. The remainder of my time is filled with assisting (or occasionally leading) evangelistic outreaches, teaching science in a missionary family’s home school, taking Russian lessons, and joining in the rest of the life of the church here. Olya, besides her role in ministering the love of Christ as a teacher in a local university, assists me in directing the Sunday School and translates for me at our weekly home study. She is a teacher in the Sunday School, a member of the worship team, and has been involved in various outreaches, often through her gift of singing.

God has recently answered one of our biggest prayers in providing Calvary Chapel Pocatello in Pocatello, Idaho to collect any financial support we receive and send it to our account. Besides solving some logistical problems, their help will also allow for any contributions to be tax deductible.

This is an interesting time for us as we are being stretched in our faith in this season of changes. We will continue to pray about direction, and have the understanding that the Lord may lead us elsewhere through the lack of financial support. We are content to go where God would want us to go as there is nothing more fulfilling that living submitted to His will.

If you would like to support us financially for 2005, please send us an e-mail or give us a call and let us know. At that time we will send you specific instructions on where to send the money and how to properly designate it. Calvary Chapel Pocatello is already prepared to receive funds for us. Also, if you know of anyone else who may be interested in supporting us, please let us know.

If you are not able or willing to support us financially, we would like to invite you to be a regular prayer supporter. We want to have a “prayer team” who will receive prayer requests and praise reports from us on a regular basis. It is encouraging knowing that others are thinking of us and supporting us in prayer. As I’ve mentioned before, we often see how God uses the prayers of others in our lives. God is amazing.

Thank you for your love, your prayers, and your consideration.

In Christ's Love,

Dave & Olya Erho

Novo-Yamskoi Pereyulok 6-66
Vladimir, Russia 600015

Phone: 7-0922-38-04-39

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