Oakhill Church

This past Sunday we visited one of our local supporting churches here in Grand Rapids, Michigan. We had a wonderful visit with the congregation and are always encouraged by the love they show to us. We are so greateful to all of you who support us with prayer and financial gifts and praise God for you all.

Vicka and my mom with our good friend Bonnie Ostrander who is a member of Oakhill Church.

Arrival in Michigan

We arrived in Michigan this past week safe and sound. Here are a few pictures of the girls I hope you will enjoy.


Emma and Stacia together

Here is Emma with my sister Joanna and my dad

(My) Mom, Vicka and Emma went to go see the Nutcracker ballet and here is a picture of Mom and Emma looking arround in the gift shop.

December 2008 Newsletter now online!

Greetings All.

We have just finished our latest newsletter. It will be going out in the mail within the next couple of days but you can read it now by checking it out online at:
http://soarinternational.org/SOARStaff/Mangione/December08.pdf

Enjoy!

Our Thanksgiving Day pictures

Happy Thanksgiving Day to everyone!
We were very busy with SOAR Open House so we just getting this pictures out.

My mom

This picture of my mom in her military uniform and long dark hair was taken 12 years ago. I just was scanning some of the pictures from my album and decided to show you this one:)

Emma fixes a snow machine

A friend of mine needed a bit of welding done on his snowmachine (what we up in the north call a snowmobile).

He has been pretty busy lately and so Emma and I decided to give him a hand. Here are a few pictures of Emma getting things ready for work!

Emma is Daddies little helper. :)

Shopping in Provideniya

When we are in Provideniya we go to the store almost every day. We have to carry all our stuff so you never can get food to last more then 2 days.
This is a bread store, the only bread store and our favorite store in Provideniya. They bake fresh bread every day and sometimes we buy other pastries.

This picture was taken in one of the cheapest stores and you can see some cheese, kolbasa and milk produce in the refrigerators

This is at the same store happy Oksana got to pick some new delivered fresh produce

This is a view of the Provideniya when you drive in to the city from the airport. The sign in Russian says PROVIDENIYA