Watch Out! Here We Come!

Philip and I have so much going on here in the next few weeks! We are so excited to share with you a few new details in our lives! First of all, Philip graduated from Wesley Biblical Seminary a few weekends ago with a Masters of Divinity Degree! We are so thrilled to have Philip done with school, but more importantly, we are excited that he has had the opportunity to learn more about the Lord at this amazing seminary. Now that Philip is done with school, he is picking up some maintenance work at the seminary while he waits for me to finish up with the school year. He has also been busy working on our missions "work". This work consists of connecting with people, churches, and any other avenue we can make to share with people about our call to go to Russia. Philip has been busy writing thank you cards, arranging meetings, and of course taking care of the baby and me! He has enjoyed a little more pleasure reading and definently more sleep! Thank you for your prayers as Philip finished up his last weeks of seminary. The Lord has shown us His faithfulness throughout Philip's time in seminary.

The second great news is we are expecting a baby GIRL in October! We went in for our sonogram earlier this week and were overjoyed to hear that all was well with the baby...and to find out that the baby is a girl! Please continue to pray for us as we prepare to be parents. Our desire is to raise this precious girl to become a Godly woman who seeks the Lord with her whole heart.

Philip and I are in the midst of packing and moving to Indiana in just 2 short weeks! We will be leaving Mississippi to live in Terre Haute, Indiana. We are beginning the transition of full-time support raising!!!! To give you an update of our financial status, we are 10% funded already and only have 90% more to go!! We are encouraged and have begun setting goals to reach each month. We appreciate your prayers and how each of you have been supporting us over these last few months. We pray that the Lord will continue to touch your lives through this ministry. Here are a few things you can keep in your prayers as you lift us up to the Lord:

• Pray for our field directors, Brian and Cara, as they prepare to leave home ministries here in the States and head back to Vladimir. They have hopes to leave here by June if all their support is raised. Please pray that they will be encouraged, and that they will be reminded constantly during this last leg of support raising that our God is faithful.
• Pray for Kerry (GP Missionary) and a woman named Nastya who are currently in Vladimir. In April they invited a few elderly women to their house for tea and ended up showing the Jesus Film. Kerry and Nastya are praying for more opportunites to expand this ministry.
• Pray for the graduates of the Bible College in Vladimir as they get ready to graduate later this month. Pray for guidance and direction for their lives as they step into ministry.
• Continue to pray for the youth and young adult ministries in Vladimir. We have not had a recent update on how the new transitions in the ministries are going, but we ask that you continue to pray for the leadership and for the hearts of the young people.
• Pray for Philip and I as we transition into a new life in Terre Haute, Indiana. Pray for the strength and boldness as we go out to churches and meet with people about Russia. Pray for the Lord to work on the hearts of people to also be burdened for the people of Russia.
  
• Pray for our little baby girl to continue to grow and be a blessing as we travel around raising support.

Again, we are so thankful for you, our supporters. We thank the Lord for you each day and for your commitment to help in sending us into the world for the sake of the Gospel.

Blessings,
Philip, Kara, and baby Adalynn

The DaySpring Family

We want to thank all the DaySpring Community Church Family of Clinton, Mississippi for their warm and welcoming response to our sharing about Russia this past weekend! It was a joy to share with the church that we considered home these past 3-4 years while living in Mississippi. We were blessed by our pastor, Dr. Matt Friedeman, and the congregation at each of the 3 services. Thank you for being a part of our ministry and supporting us both through prayer and financially! Blessings!

Philip, Kara, and Baby

Events

Philip and I are so excited to be speaking at our home church here in Mississippi this Saturday and Sunday! DaySpring Community Church has been our home church since we moved to the Jackson area 3 years ago. We have been involved in small groups and other various things with the church over the past couple of years. We are so excited to share with this loving church family about our call and passion for the people of Russia. We will be speaking at the Saturday night service at 6:02pm as well as briefly during the two morning services on Sunday, April 25th. Please be in prayer for us as we share our vision to go to Russia. Pray for open hearts of the people of DaySpring as well as for the anointing of the Holy Spirit to be with us as we share.

In the coming weeks we will be speaking at a few other churches here in the Jackson area. Philip is about a week away from graduation! He is excited and greatly anticipating this next step in life! We are in the process of packing to move to Terre Haute, Indiana to live with Philip's parents while we full-time support raise. The littlest Gormong is well! We are in our 14th week of pregnancy and looking forward to finding out if we are having a boy or girl in a couple of weeks! Please continue to pray for us as we make all these different transitions in the next month!

Blessings, Philip, Kara, and Mini Gormong

Our Field Directors

Philip and I had the wonderful opportunity to meet our field directors! Our field directors, Brian and Cara, are here in the States on Home Ministries. They are getting ready to head back to Russia in a few months. We happened to be in New Jersey the same time they were going to be speaking in a church not far from where we were! It was such an amazing time to meet them face to face! We also got to meet their new daughter, Sophia! The Lord again confirmed to us that Russia is where we need to be! We are so thankful for people like Brian and Cara who are there to encourage us and answer the many questions we have. Besides the fun of hearing more about Russia, it was just great to get to know Brian and Cara a little more personally! We are looking forward to our time in Russia with them! Please be praying for Brian and Cara as they are finishing up raising their support to go back to the field.

Thank You!

We want to extend our thanks to the people of New Dover United Methodist Church from Edison, New Jersey. This past weekend we had the opportunity to share with this congregation about the ministry in Russia! We were able to share with them about how the Lord has led us to be missionaries to this country. Philip and I were a bit nervous as this was our first church to speak to about Russia. The Lord was so good though and we felt his Spirit present with us in the services. The people at New Dover United Methodist Church were so kind and welcoming! We were able to go out to eat with the pastor and meet with some other church members throughout the week to share more of our vision. It was a wonderful and blessed opportunity. We thank you again, New Dover family, for your support and hospitality!

Philip's sister and brother-in-law, who is the youth pastor at New Dover United Methodist Church, and us on Sunday morning.

And Then There Were THREE...

We are so excited to tell you that there will now be THREE people going to Russia! We are expecting our first baby on October 17th! We are thrilled with this blessing! Philip and I will be moving to Indiana to do the rest of our support raising at the end of May. The baby will be born here in the States in October. We don't anticipate any slow downs as far as our departure for Russia goes. We know this little baby is a blessing from the Lord! We are 10 weeks along! We wanted you to know, so that you can be praying for us during this time!

TRAVELS

NEW DOVER UNITED METHODIST CHURCH

On Thursday, Philip and I will be flying out of Mississippi to New Jersey!  We are going to be spending our spring break with Philip's sister, Hannah and her husband Scott, who live in New Jersey!  While we are in New Jersey, we have the opportunity to speak to our first church about Russia!  We are so excited, a little nervous, and greatly anticipating what the Lord has in store for us.  We will be speaking at Scott and Hannah's church, New Dover United Methodist Church on Saturday, March 14th and the morning services Sunday, March 15th.  The church has graciously given us three services to share our vision and ministry for Russia.  Please be praying for us as we prepare for this weekend.  Pray that people's hearts would be burdened for the people of Russia.  Pray that people would give both in prayer and financially.  

On Friday, Philip and I have the opportunity to meet with our field directors, Brian and Cara!  Brain and Cara will be in New Jersey the same weekend speaking at another church.  We have never personally met Brain and Cara, so we are looking forward to this meeting!  What a double blessing to be able to speak in a church and meet our field directors all in the same weekend! (Oh, and we are oh so excited to spend the week with our wonderful family, Scott and Hannah!!)

Thank you for your continual prayers, support, and encouragement.  We have seen God's faithfulness in so many ways!  We pray for you!

Blessings, Philip and Kara