Nick Bogardus

If you are interested in what we will be working on for the next seven months, I am posting a run down of our different projects.  We will need some financial support for a few of the projects so if your church is looking for some overseas work to support, please forward our information on to them.

Together:

-Producing a ten episode series for national TV about people whose lives have been changed by Christ.  This will probably prove to be the most difficult as 10 episodes in 7 months would be difficult in America, let alone a country with very little infrastructure. 

-Looking for a way to get Bibles more cheaply, or at all, for the people here.  Bibles here cost 7000-8000 tugruks.  That is only $6-$7, but when you adjust it to the economy here it’s like each Bible costing $50-$60 for us.  The poor can’t afford them, students can’t afford them.  One of the small group leaders in my Tuesday night class has a group of 17 people, most of which are new Christians.  14 of them do not have Bibles.  We’d like to find a way to print more cheaply or to at least buy in bulk.

-We want to find a way to bring a few of Kim’s photography students back with us for a month or so when we come back.  One way we were hoping to help alleviate the financial burden for the students is to have an exhibit back in America and sell their photos to help cover the cost.  If you would be willing to assist with that somehow, please let me know.

-Continuing to teach English at the youth cafe every Friday night and having students over once a month for a dinner and movie night.

Nick:

-Continuing to teach English to the doctors and nurses at the central hospital.

-Continuing to co-teach the Bible study at the Mongolian church to their small group leaders every Tuesday.  We just finished Romans and are doing Galatians next.

-Working on getting Mark Driscoll’s On the Old Testament translated and printed into Mongolian.  They have next to no study materials available for the layperson out here.  Driscoll’s Re:Lit series are short, easy to understand surveys of the Old and New Testaments.

-The kind folks at Crossway Books donated one of the most incredible 40lbs of books for me to bring to the missionary library here in Erdenet.  If you’re a reader, support them.

Kim:

-Continuing her second photography class and holding another photo exhibit in April.  This is Erdenet’s first photography class and only creative art class - the schools don’t have art classes.  The two exhibits Kim will have done by the time we leave will be the only two ever done in our city.

-Continuing to help with at the school for disabled children.  Our friend Magda started one of the only schools in the country for children with special needs.  Though she has been here for 10 years and provides an exceptional service that no one else in our city - and less than a handful in the country - provides, the government will not help fund her.  This is an extremely worthy cause if we’re all over the global warming thing.

-Continuing to teach English to the children in the Children’s Parliament.

-Organizing and leading a seminar for social workers.  With the rampant alcoholism and domestic violence out here, social workers are incredibly needed but grossly under trained.  Kim is going to do her part to help fix that.

Please help us by keeping those things in your prayers.  

It’s good to be back.

Nick