A few weeks ago I was in MO and on my way to Columbia. I stopped at a First Baptist Church for a Christian apologetics conference. The conference was designed for youth to defend their faith and it had some very inspirational and well known speakers: Alex McFarland who is the president of Southern Evangelical Seminary and Veritas Graduate School of Apologetics, Sean McDowell (Josh McDowell’s son), Ryan Dobson (Dr. James Dobson’s son), Mark Mittelberg who is an international speaker and best-selling author, Josh McDowell, and Lee Strobel.

I came to the conference toward the end in time to hear Josh McDowell. I have never met or heard him before, but am aware of who he is and have worked with many people who have come with Josh to Russia on short-term mission groups. Some of his most popular books include The New Evidence That Demands a Verdict, More Than a Carpenter, Beyond Belief to Convictions. Josh spoke on “The Power and Necessity of Relationship,” in addition to sharing his personal testimony of having been physically and sexually abused. It was not until a year ago that he even told his wife children about this teenage trauma. The Holy Spirit convicted him to do it in order to bring completion to the process of forgiveness and inner healing. Amazed at his story, I want to share with you some of it and hope that you will find it just as powerful as I did.

Relationship forms our beliefs, which forms our values, which forms our behavior, which eventually makes as an individual. We are hardwired to connect to other people. We must develop loving and intimate relationship with our children. The power of relationship is so clear when you look at statistics. If a child is raised in a complete family and has a good relationship with his mom and dad (stressed here because most children do not have that kind of relationship with their dads) he has only a 6% chance of ending up in drugs, crime or violence. Furthermore, a child can handle stress at an older age much better if he/she was raised in a loving, caring and intimate family, including a close relationship with the father.

Relationship should be just as important in our lives as it is for God because He is passionate about His relationship with us. When you try to communicate the gospel without relationship it will be very challenging because our faith is not just true, but also relational and meaningful. 1 Th. 2:8 says, We loved you so much that we were delighted to share with you not only the gospel of God, but our lives as well, because you had become so dear to us. Thus, how we communicate the gospel is just as important as what we communicate. More than 70% of non-Christians do not want to have anything to do with Christians before they even talk to you because they think that Christians are judgmental, hypocritical and legalistic.

We as Christians must build the relationship before bringing the truth because without it most of the time the truth will be rejected. In addition, we must love people with genuine love. This is what non-Christians will understand. Jeremiah 31:3 says, The Lord appeared to us in the past, saying: “I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with loving kindness.”

Josh also shared one story that happened to him and hopefully I can summarize it correctly. He was visiting a university in Phoenix, AZ. There were over one thousand students that came to listen to him. He spoke to them outside on the grass and there was no stage setup so he stood on two boulders so that everyone could see him. Before Josh spoke at that university he was warned that frequently there was a group of rockers and punks who come to the campus to protest against religion. Josh basically said, "I am ready to face them.” Sure enough, just as he began to speak, a group of six punks came to him. Josh continued to share his message, but he shifted his message toward those punks and he faced them for the entire time. They just stood there frozen, listening to him. At the end they came to him and asked if they could hug him. Josh said yes and as each punk was hugging him one by one they were crying on his shoulder and Josh was whispering, “I love you.” When these punks heard this they began to weep even louder and told Josh something, “Mr. McDowell, our fathers have never hugged us and have never said, "I love you.” When I heard that it made me cry and it is so true what Josh was saying earlier. The relationship between a child and a father is very important and fathers must hug their children and constantly tell them, "I love you." The relationship with our earthly father is just as important as it is with our Heavenly Father.

Thus, my encouragement for you is to build a relationship with your children if you do not have one because the time will come when it will be late too build such relationship. If your child never had the relationship between his/her father then when he/she grows up he/she will have an identical relationship with their children because children follow the role model that they had. If their role model was practically nonexistent it will be the same for the next generation. Do not let that happen and learn from the mistakes of your forefathers.

I pray for deep, committed and living relationship with your earthly fathers just as you would with your Heavenly Father.
Blessings, Alex

Part two:

Yet while economic growth boosted by record oil prices has helped the government to achieve impressive numbers, inequality has grown.For one, differences between the country's regions are huge. Whereas the average income in Moscow is 30,818 rubles ($1,233), in Dagestan, the country's poorest region, the average income is just 6,923 rubles ($276).Even though most of the country's wealth is accumulated in Moscow, the capital also boasts a much higher fraction of people living under the local poverty line.

According to the city's statistics service, last year 23 percent of Muscovites lived in poverty, defined as a monthly income of less than 5,758 rubles ($230).Many experts agree that high levels of inequality pose multiple problems, threatening social cohesion and an increase in crime rates.Middle Class and TaxesThe government, it seems, has decided to address the problem by focusing on the growth of the middle class.President Dmitry Medvedev has said that only a fast-rising middle class "can become the buttress of democratic development." He has also said the middle class should make up 60 to 70 percent of the country's population by 2020, on par with levels in Western Europe.Yet sociologists said that while 22 percent of the population is middle class by income, only 7 percent of the population could be classified as belonging to that group if education and self-consciousness are taken into account.

Many blame the tax system for galloping inequality."I don't know one other country in the world where the tax system stipulates that the poor share with the rich, rather than the rich sharing [their wealth] with the poor," said Oleg Smolin, a Communist State Duma deputy. Smolin identified the country's flat income tax, introduced in 2001 at 13 percent, as the main culprit.He said that since opportunities for tax evasion were more widespread among higher income groups, the system was turning absurd. "We have gone even further [than the flat tax] to a regressive system -- the more an employee earns, the less he gives back to society," he said. To bridge the income gap, he said, the government needs to introduce a progressive tax system.

Kryshtanovskaya, who heads the Russian Academy of Science's center of elite studies, also backed the introduction of progressive taxes and said financial controls should be increased. "[The government] should be able to control payments like in most other economies around the world, where the majority abides by the law," she said.While Guriyev agreed that inequality was too high, he strongly warned against changing the flat income tax regime, arguing that it was important for pulling the economy out of the shadows. Rather, he said, it is necessary to tackle inequality because as long as it is high, "it is very hard to resist temptation to tax the rich, which in turn undermines economic growth."The most promising path, he said, would be to promote equal opportunities through the reform of health care, education and housing. Guriyev said it was a good sign that the Kremlin's national projects addressed exactly these issues. "This shows that the government understands pretty well what needs to be done," he said.The national projects, overseen by Medvedev when he was first deputy prime minister, target health care, education, housing and agriculture.

Spending reached 256.5 billion rubles ($10.8 billion) last year.A second state initiative, special economic zones, is intended to diversify regional development by creating greater economic activity outside of Moscow and the oil-rich regions.In addition, the government is hoping to tap its sovereign wealth fund to address the problem of inequality between generations.As with so many things in the country, the challenge lies in the implementation. "It will be very difficult to get qualified bureaucrats for the projects," Guriyev said.He warned against attempts at large-scale redistribution of wealth because this would jeopardize private property. "Any attempt at expropriation would scare away badly needed foreign and domestic investors," he said. As examples he listed Latin American countries like Bolivia and Venezuela, where nationalization had been suppressing economic activity as well as driving foreign money away. He said the Yukos affair, where the state had forced the country's biggest private oil firm into bankruptcy, had similar effects, since the oil industry has seen both investment and output declining. Smolin, however, lambasted a law introduced in 2005 that abolished taxes on inheritances and gifts received from family members and relatives. What was meant as a gift to all our citizens who pass on apartments to their children actually "turned out to be a grandiose present for the so-called oligarchs, who handed down colossal real estate wealth to their children and close relatives," he said. The Communist deputy also said salaries needed to be significantly raised in sectors where they are lowest, including agriculture and education.He criticized the fact that a professor can earn roughly the same salary as a congressman in the United States but that the difference in income between the two is huge in Russia.

"Wages in education, science and arts are laughable. Teachers in some regions earn just 150 euros [$232] per month, while a Duma deputy like me is making 200,000 rubles [$8,500] a month," he said. Communist deputies, Smolin said, are giving almost half of that back to their party."The government steadily refuses to raise salaries for the intelligentsia and public servants, saying this would propel inflation. But at the same time, it is pumping gigantic sums into its state corporations, which in the opinion of many, including liberals and experts, pose the much bigger factor for inflation than public sector salaries," he said. Power of InflationInflation is actually itself a contributing factor to inequality, because it tends to hit the poor more than the rich.A study released last month by audit firm FBK found that an inflation rate of 14 percent this year would translate into 25 percent in real terms for the poor. This is because poorer people spend a higher fraction of their income on staple goods, and food prices rose much more than the average, the study found. Also, wealthier people have easier access to sophisticated financial instruments that avoid inflation, while the portfolios of the poor tend to have a larger share of cash.Smolin warned that the current status quo posed a grave threat to political stability."The relative stability we have is based on the golden rain of oil revenues. It might be easily destroyed," he said. People may not be taking to the streets now, but at the beginning of 2005, some 500,000 to 2 million people protested the monetization of state benefits, Smolin warned.Kryshtanovskaya said the main reason for the current stability is that even the poor are seeing a chance of being better off soon -- a major difference from the 1990s. "Back then, one segment got richer, while the rest got poorer. Today, everybody is getting richer, and everybody is busy earning and spending money," she said.

Kryshtanovskaya said there probably was no point in the country's history where more wealth was being generated. During the last large-scale economic expansion in the 1960s and early 1970s, much was eaten up by the military-industrial complex. "Today, a lot goes into welfare, and that is probably unique," she said.

BARVIKHA, Moscow Region -- Nikolai Nikitin by all appearances is Russia's Average Joe.The 82-year-old retiree with blinking blue eyes supplements his monthly pension of 4,000 rubles ($170) with what grows in the garden in front of his small wooden house. His nephew Mikhail, 47, brings home another 15,000 rubles ($635) a month from his job as a security guard. Together they barely scrape a living. Nikitin may not be so average in having surpassed the country's male life expectancy of 59 by 23 years. But in his neighborhood, he stands out for his poverty. Nikitin is encircled by wealth. This is Barvikha, a dacha community in the woods just west of Moscow and a haven for the well-to-do since Soviet times. This is where President Boris Yeltsin welcomed special guests at a government dacha, a tradition kept up by his successors, Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev. Wander into the fir-tree forest above Nikitin's humble home and you can peek through the high fences with surveillance cameras that guard the not always tasteful architecture of the country's rich and famous. Or watch the heavy traffic roaring past Nikitin's dusty fence and you will see more Range Rovers and Rolls-Royces than in some of London's fancier districts. Follow the limousines to Barvikha Luxury Village, a sprawling country house-style shopping mall on the town's western rim, and admire the breathtaking offers of expensive cars, watches, jewelry and designer clothes.On a recent Sunday, customers flocked to the Bentley showroom, where prices start at about 8 million rubles ($320,000) for a budget model.

The British-built high-end limousines have recently become an ubiquitous symbol of Moscow's nouveau riche, and a saleswoman, who would not give her name because she was not authorized to speak to the media, said demand was growing every month.But she also explained that many customers were concerned about being recognized in their cars and therefore ordered tinted windows. "For instance, there are State Duma deputies who do not want to show that they have more income [than other deputies]," she said.Speaking to the Nikitins, you feel one of the country's most striking paradoxes -- the growing chasm between the rich and the poor."They do not speak to us. They do not greet us," Mikhail Nikitin said of his well-off neighbors. "Sometimes I think they should all be sent to Moscow -- in an armored train," he said, laughing.A Growing GapStunning inequality has become a part of life in today's Russia, and the gap is steadily growing between the rich and the poor.The country's number of billionaires shot up from 60 to 110 over the course of last year, according to Forbes' rich list published in April. The magazine's Russian edition valued the combined fortunes of the top 100 at $522 billion, or more than one-third of the country's economy, up 54 percent from $338 billion in March 2007.The number of citizens with a net worth of more than $1 million, so-called "high net-worth individuals," increased 14.4 percent to 136,000 people in 2007, according to a report released in June by Merrill Lynch and Capgemini.Yet the country's average monthly wage stands at just 16,253 rubles ($686).To highlight that this is average, speak to day laborers like Sergei, a builder in Moscow's Kurkino district who said he earns 500 rubles a day -- just 10,000 rubles a month. In addition, 18.9 million Russians live below the poverty line, earning less than 4,000 rubles ($170) per month.However, official statistics claim that inequality in Russia is lower than in the United States, albeit significantly higher than in Europe.The country's Gini coefficient -- a scientific standard to measure income distribution from zero (perfect equality) to one (one person earns everything and all others nothing) -- has crawled up from 0.395 in 2000 to 0.412 in the first quarter of 2008, according to the State Statistics Service.In the United States, the figure was 0.47 in 2006, while most West European countries have Gini coefficients from 0.25 to 0.35, according to the UN World Human Development Report 2007/2008.The official Russian figures, however, are inaccurate, and the inequality is really much higher, economists and sociologists said. The numbers are flawed because of the enormous unofficial income that does not show up in official records, they said.Companies are known to pay their employees low official salaries and add extra money on the side to avoid taxes. Civil servants, on the other hand, are known to accept "gray taxes" -- large payments from companies that expect administrative favors in return.Such practices appear mainly to be a phenomenon for higher-income groups. Poor people, by contrast, have fewer opportunities to get extra cash unofficially.Olga Kryshtanovskaya, a leading sociologist, said Russians are more prone to invest in and flaunt luxuries than in the West. "It is a Russian characteristic that even the poorest people have сrystal ware and gold at home," she said. The ongoing consumer boom is also a means of compensation for past poverty, she said.But that did not mean that those who drive around Moscow in Mercedes and Bentley limousines are showing off everything they have, Kryshtanovskaya said, noting that she knew quite a few millionaires with "ascetic" lifestyles.Sergei Guriyev, rector of Moscow's New Economic School, agreed that there was massive underreporting of income. Realistically, he said, the nationwide Gini index could be approaching 0.5, while the index for Moscow was as high as 0.6. This would place the capital in line with some of the world's most unequal places like Bolivia, Botswana and the Central African Republic, according to the latest World Human Development Report.Another, more telling method to describe inequality is to divide the population by income groups. By that, official statistics show, the richest 10 percent of the country's population earned 31 percent of the overall income last year, and the top 20 percent took home 47.8 percent. Moscow's massive poverty gap is all the more ironic because this was the heart of the Soviet Union, the country that for 70 years propagated the end of inequality.Government officials have pointed to large reductions in poverty and unprecedented rises in income. Official statistics show that the share of the population living below the poverty line has plummeted from just above 20 percent in early 2006 to 13.4 percent in the course of last year.From 2001 to 2007, the number of poor has been more than halved, from 40 million to 18.9 million.And incomes have risen spectacularly. Inflation-adjusted real wages rose more than 11 percent from April 2007 to April 2008. In the course of two years, real incomes on average climbed 25 percent, according to official data.

Honor God in Your Work by Max Lucado

Heaven's calendar has seven Sundays a week. God sanctifies each day. He conducts holy business at all hours and in all places. He uncommons the common by turning kitchen sinks into shrines, cafés into convents, and nine-to-five workdays into spiritual adventures.

Workdays? Yes, workdays. He ordained your work as something good. Before he gave Adam a wife or a child, even before he gave Adam britches, God gave Adam a job. "Then the LORD God took the man and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate it and keep it" (Gen. 2:15 NASB). Innocence, not indolence, characterized the first family.

God views work worthy of its own engraved commandment: "You shall work six days, but on the seventh day you shall rest" (Exod. 34:21 NASB). We like the second half of that verse. But emphasis on the day of rest might cause us to miss the command to work: "You shall work six days." Whether you work at home or in the marketplace, your work matters to God.

And your work matters to society. We need you! Cities need plumbers. Nations need soldiers. Stoplights break. Bones break. We need people to repair the first and set the second. Someone has to raise kids, raise cane, and manage the kids who raise Cain.

Whether you log on or lace up for the day, you imitate God. Jehovah himself worked for the first six days of creation. Jesus said, "My Father never stops working, and so I keep working, too" (John 5:17 NCV). Your career consumes half of your lifetime. Shouldn't it broadcast God? Don't those forty to sixty hours a week belong to him as well?

The Bible never promotes workaholism or an addiction to employment as pain medication. But God unilaterally calls all the physically able to till the gardens he gives. God honors work. So honor God in your work. "There is nothing better for a man than to eat and drink and tell himself that his labor is good" (Eccles. 2:24 NASB). Do you tell yourself your work is good?? If you can't find a way to make your work good, perhaps God is directing you to some other type of work.

Here is the big idea:Use your uniqueness (what you do) to make a big deal out of God (why you do it) every day of your life (where you do it). At the convergence of all three, you'll find the cure for the common life: your sweet spot.

"I know you will be blessed by this one devotional from Beth Moore book, Voices of the Faithful. The book is a compilation of inspiring stories from 300 missionaries who have given up everything to be on the front lines of faith and make a difference in their corner of the world. They are real, live flesh and blood people who love the comforts of home and extended family just like you and me. They are all ages, shapes and sizes--singles, married, widowed, old and young. They don’t all sing, preach, or teach. Some of them farm, dig wells and do plumbing. They don’t have a single talent or skill entirely in common. All they have in common is a willingness to engage with God across the globe to reach the nations. "

“As you know, we consider blessed thosewho have persevered.” (James 5:11a, NIV)
Drought conditions in the state of Orissa (or-RISS-sah), India, caused many deaths one year. People looked to the village priest to perform rituals to appease the spirits, but even the priest suffered as he helplessly watched his malnourished wife die after birthing her fifth child. Fearing his dignity would be tarnished for not saving his wife, he decided a greater sacrifice must be made. He chose to offer his baby daughter as a human sacrifice.

As the father prepared to cremate his wife, he commanded his sister to throw the baby onto the burning pyre. But the aunt had sympathy for the child and tossed a bundle of rags instead. For 15 days, she drugged the infant to prevent her from crying. But the angry father found out and torched his sister’s hut for deceiving him.

The aunt escaped with the child and ran miles through the jungle to a mission hospital, where she abandoned the baby. Later she returned and identified the child. After three months, a Canadian Baptist missionary was given custody of the infant, who was named Lakki (LAH-kee) Joy.

Lakki thrived under the missionary’s care. Through her guidance, Lakki came to know Christ as her personal Lord and Savior.

Lakki shares the gospel with her people group, the Soura (Sue-rah) at every opportunity. This once unwanted baby has become a testimony of God’s love and is truly a joy to others.

Sue, South Asia

Sudzhanskiy regional court in Kursk region released verdict to twenty-five year old citizen of this region Natalia who brutally abused her children.

The mother has 3 little children whom she has neglected, did not work with and drank alcohol frequently. She constantly abused her oldest 4-year old daughter and at times threw food on the floor so that she would not starve to death. The food consisted of leftovers that were served to her like a dog.

The court released verdict to relinquish Natalia’s parental rights for her oldest daughter and set limited rights for the younger ones.

Due to the brutal abuse of her older daughter the criminal investigation was started. During the investigation Natalia gave birth and had another daughter. She took care of her new born the same way as she did with her 4-year old. Due to neglecting her new born the child developed chronic rhinitis that lead to death. It was too late to provide any kind of medical help due to improper care so the child died being less than one month old.

The court has recognized Natalia guilty and released verdict that simply slapped her hands and charged 5,000 rubles fine ($212). The softness of the verdict has surprised everyone.

Blessings, Alex

Every eligible foreign adoptive parent will have to go through psychological exam to determine if adoptive parents are fit to raise adoptive child. The Ministry of Education and Science has already prepared a document proposing this change that will go into effect in the near future. Every adoptive parent will have to present personal data info to the representative of the regional and federal operator of the state national data bank where eligible adoptive child is registered. This information will be submitted strictly through an accredited and licensed nongovernmental adoption agency recognized by the Ministry of Education and Science.

For more thorough determination of adoptive parents’ candidacy eligible adoptive parents will be required to go through psychological exam and pass special training program. Tragic recent death case of Nikolai Emelyantcev who was adopted last February by Feodor and Kimberly Emelyantcev has reminded about the necessity of incorporating changes to the current rules and procedures for international adoption by foreign families. These changes will assure the guarantee for following the rules and procedures of post-placements and meet the interests of children who are adopted by foreign families and live abroad.

The government has stated that Nikolai was adopted through independent adoption; thus, there was no accredited recognized licensed agency representing the interests of the family. Independent adoption has middle man person who is not responsible or legally hold accountable for mistakes being made; thus, such form of adoption does not follow the rules and procedures for international adoption in the Russian Federation.

The Ministry of Education and Science has sent the document for the federal approval to make changes in the state family constitution of the Russian Federation.

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USCIS Strengthens Intercountry Adoption ProcessRollout of New Forms and Centralized Review Under Hague Adoption Convention

WASHINGTON ─ Children, birthparents and prospective adoptive parent(s) will have greater protections under the Convention on Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption (Hague Adoption Convention), effective April 1, 2008. New safeguards administered by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) under the Hague include the creation of new forms and improved, centralized examination processes for intercountry adoption applications and petitions under the Hague Adoption Convention.

The Hague Adoption Convention is an international treaty between Convention member countries (www.travel.state.gov). The agreement provides a framework of rules and procedures for the countries to work jointly to ensure certain intercountry adoption protections. These include providing adoptees with permanent and loving homes and looking after children’s best interests throughout the adoption process, thus preventing the abduction, sale or illegal traffic of children.

“These new protective and streamlining measures underscore our commitment to children, parents and prospective adoptive parents”, said Michael Valverde, acting Deputy Chief, USCIS Office of International Operations.

The new forms being introduced are an Application for Determination of Suitability to Adopt a Child from a Convention Country (I-800A), and the Petition to Classify a Convention Adoptee as an Immediate Relative (I-800). The purpose of the I-800A is to review the suitability and eligibility of prospective adoptive parent(s), while the I-800 determines a child’s Convention classification eligibility.

Additionally, USCIS established a special unit to process all Hague intercountry adoption applications and petitions at its USCIS National Benefits Center. The special unit will also provide customer service support to prospective adoptive parents who have filed Form I-800A or Form I-800.

Prospective adoptive parents are encouraged to visit and download the forms and filing instructions and Hague Adoption Convention Fact Sheet, available on the Internet at www.uscis.gov.

Official statistics show the number of children has fallen from 36 million to 29 million over the past eight years, part of an overall fall resulting from low birth rates, an antiquated public health care system, poverty, alcoholism and rampant crime. Child's Right, a Moscow-based advocacy group, says that every year about 2,000 of Russia's 29 million children aged up to 17 are killed by their parents or other relatives, which translates into a rate of about 6.9 per 100,000. By rough comparison, the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics reports that in 2005, the overall homicide rate for children 13 and under regardless of the perpetrator was 1.4 per 100,000.

The overall U.S. rate for children aged 14 to 17 was 4.8 per 100,000. According to a UNICEF report, the suicide rate for Russian youths aged 15 to 19 was 20.2 per 100,000 in 2004. That's more than double the rate of 8.2 per 100,000 for the same age group in the U.S. in 2004, as reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Child's Right, citing state statistics, says about 50,000 Russian children one out of every 580 run away from home each year. Another 20,000 flee from state-run orphanages and other institutions.

Authorities can either do nothing or take the child away from parents and place him in an orphanage, Altshuler said, but there is no middle ground such as family counseling or monitoring by social workers, and no law that obliges the state to act. «The whole country is one orphan-making factory,» he said in an interview. [Boris Altshuler, head of Child's Right,]

According to the human rights ombudsman, the number of orphans or children whose parents were stripped of their custody rights has risen by almost 20 percent over the past eight years, to more than 730,000. UNICEF data says 1,384 Russian children out of every 100,000 lived in an institution in 2005, compared with 709 per 100,000 in Poland and 590 out of 100,000 in the former Soviet state of Estonia. In recent years, the Russian government has established a foster home program and created hot lines for child victims. Charities and nongovernment groups have opened shelters and UNICEF is working to create a national network of children's rights watchdogs.

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According to the official statistics in Russia every hundredth child is being raised in the state orphanage system. There are 280,000 children in the state orphanage system. Currently in Russia there are more than 2 thousand orphan shelters, 1,500 social state institutions and 1,400 special internats (boarding schools) where orphans are being raised.

The Federal Treasury of the Russian Federation in 2005 spent two billion Euros to support orphans in the state institutions. Majority of its finance in general is not spent toward the orphan’s support, but to support the institutions (building maintenance, staff salary, etc). The amount spent toward an orphan’s needs is much lower than mentioned above.