get to know the team--part six

Pip Triggs is a Freshman at Wheaton North High School and is enjoying Hyacks which is College Church's High School youth group. He is very involved in Martial Arts at Superstar Karate. He enjoys traveling and is very happy to be a part of the 2009 STAMP Russia team!

get to know the team--part five

Danielle Seaman will be a junior at Wheaton College majoring in violin
performance. She is currently working at Camp Teekna in Newtown
Square, PA as a counselor for 5-7 year-olds. She has attended College
Church for her past two years at Wheaton and is involved in the
College Group's music ministry. She enjoys tennis, reading, and
playing games.

get to know the team--part four

Paige Winfield recently took a job with a think-tank in Virginia,
after working as a newspaper reporter in Naperville, Illinois. She
writes news and feature stories about government and politics and
enjoys interviewing all sorts of people and reading news all day.
Paige lived in Wheaton and attended College Church for the last three
years, where she served with the college group leadership team. She
loves to play the violin, run, travel and live life alongside her
brothers and sisters in Christ.

Get to know the team--part three

Danielle Chauvin was born and raised in New Orleans, LA. She now
attends Wheaton College and is about to begin her senior year in the
Communications Department. She is very excited to be doing a College
Group Women's internship at College Church, starting this August. In
her spare time she loves cooking, reading books and blogs, and hanging
out with kids. She is spending a lot of time thinking about how to
glorify God as a woman, student, and member of the local church in
this precious season of life.

Get to know the team--part two

Nathan Gammie is the leader of this STAMP Russia team and is looking
forward to beginning as a Ministry Resident at College Church. Though
born and raised in Southern California, he made the move to the
Midwest and graduated from the Wheaton College Graduate School with a
Masters degree in Biblical Exegesis this May. He has been programming
for the Blue Letter Bible this summer. His passions are preaching and
seeing the Kingdom of God expand by the Spirit through the local
church. In the midst of that passion, he loves running, longboarding,
rock climbing, snowboarding, playing golf, and talking life and
theology. Right now he's thinking a lot about Jay's sermons about
pastors being an example to the flock, and thinking of how he can be
cultivating a solid foundation for being a godly man, husband, father,
and pastor.

Get to know the team--part one

Wil Triggs is director of communications at College Church. He enjoys reading, movies, gardening and watching his son practice karate. He’s spending a lot of time thinking about how God uses technology to reach into people’s lives--and about how technology gets in the way of that happening.

Planning Meeting Tonight

We are at the Russian Ministries' office planning games, crafts and sports. The plans are starting to come together.

Tie-dye shirts--dyes can be purchased over there, so we are trying to work out how many to get in various sizes.

Paper mosaics, craft stick frames, also talking about balloon creations and different things to do with water balloons.

Sports--lots of soccer donations (shirts too), American football, thinking about relays and other stuff.

Lorraine Triggs here: So when we go through customs and are asked if we have anything to declare, I am going to state loudly and clearly: "Three thousand craft sticks!!"

We have about $3,800 to raise and a few days to still go before departure. Pray with us as we continue to plan and move forward toward departure.

Time to pray!