Dear Prayer & Support Partners:

It is once again time to send out a brief update. I know that "brief" is not something you normally associate with our emails, but I promise to be at least "more brief" than usual with this one! We are very busy with final preparations to return to the field. I leave Sept. 11, Lord willing (a great day to be flying :-)! and Kathie and Andrew will be leaving on Sept. 22, if all goes to plan. I will be flying directly to Bucharest, Romania, and then will be teaching at the school at Fetesti. From there I take the train on over to Chishinau, Moldova, and will meet Kathie & Andrew there. We will be very busy there with the final preparations for the wedding which takes place on the 28th, Lord willing. It is an exciting time, so we are just seeking the Lord's clear provision and direction.

After the wedding is over, Kathie & Andrew will return to the US. I have to go on to Kyiv to teach, and then from there on to Moscow for another session of classes. I will be teaching Bibliology. I have several other responsibilities to handle in some of the churches in all these areas, as well as several orphanages to get to. I also have a set of Betty Lukan's flannelgraph that has been provided for us by a family in Wisconsin. I will be taking that to one of our children's workers, Tatiana, in Kyiv. It will be a great joy to her to have that, and it will be a great blessing to the children to whom she ministers. She works in a village several hours out of Kyiv by train. She also does various ministries in Kyiv and closer to there. I know that she will make good use of this resource.

August has been very busy, PTL! We have had some excellent meetings in and around the Arizona area. We've had meetings in Bagdad, AZ, Scottsdale, Showlow, and Tucson. This final weekend we are in Kingman, and then Henderson, NV. Our last meeting is in Humboldt, AZ, just before I leave for the field. We've had the opportunity to be in several new churches, and we are looking for the Lord to direct these folks concerning their involvement with our ministry.

Not a whole lot more to report this time. Just please continue to pray for the ministry and for our family. We are looking forward to seeing our new granddaughter toward the end of November, Lord willing. That will be an exciting time as well.

Please pray for a great couple of months of service in Romania, Ukraine, Prednestrovya and Russia. Please pray for all of the events and necessary arrangements for the wedding, and for the US Embassy to grant Aliona's visa without problems. Please pray for new meetings when I return in November to take us through the end of the year, and for my return to the field in January.

Thank you again for your involvement with us. You folks are dear to us. We appreciate you so very much.

In His Great and Loving Grace,

Doc & Kathie Brewer

PS: I am of course now in Russia. We have completed several successful weeks over here already. The classes in Fetesti, Romania, were a blessing. We had 24 keen and gracious students there, and I believe that it was a profitable time. From there we were in Moldova for all of the special events. As always, I enjoyed speaking at the churches at Loganesti and then at Duralesti. I also had opportunity to meet with the folks up in Teghina, Transnistrya. We looked at a property that is for sale up there as a possible building for the group, but the price that is being asked is more than we can afford or would feel the Lord would have us spend. Pray for a good rental situation for them. Then there was the wedding. It was a very wonderful time. The "official" state wedding was at the magistrate's office on Friday, and the the church wedding on Sunday. It was a combination of Moldovan and American. I performed the church wedding with the vows and wedding sermon, etc. The bride was beautiful and it was a happy day. However, after several weeks of agony dealing with the Moldovan officials to get everything they required accomplished, it then came to the US to really hit us hard. We got through everything with Moldova and everything there is official and settled. However, the US Consulate in Moldova refused to approve the visa application, so we are now stuck in an appeals process to get our daughter-in-law back to America. I had purchased airline tickets for Nov. 4 for our return (Andrew and Kathie had to return on Friday Oct. 3 because of Andrew's job), but it now appears that we will not make that date. Kathie and Andrew are working on things from the US, and we are hoping to get a temporary visa from that end so that I can bring her home. However, it will be at least mid-November or later before that will happen. We will appreciate your prayers with us regarding this matter.

The classes went well in Kyiv. Our attendance was down considerably over the past, but we still had about 35 students. The attendance here in Dyedovsk is up a little (17, officially). The class times have gone well thus far with just the normal glitches.

We had the great joy of taking some of the stuffed animals that were supplied by a church in Iowa to several orphanages and to the children's hospital at Kyiv. What fun that was to see the children's faces light up with these gifts. Also, to present the Flannelgraph to Tatiana, and also to arrange for a small keyboard for her to carry to the villages to enhance the music there. Then we were also able to take the last of our baby formula reserves to the children's hospial where we distributed the stuffed animals. There is a little baby there, Nikita, a 3 month old who's mother is in jail and father unknown. The formula will be used to meet his needs.

So, after this week in Dyedovsk, I return to Ukraine for about a week and then back to Moldova and eventually to Romania, hopefully with my daughter-in-law, for our return to the US. The churches here at Yubileynaya and Istra are both very grateful for the funds that we have supplied for the completion of their buildings, $10,000 for Yubileynaya and $5000 for Istra, where we were this past Sunday. I look forward to being at the fellowhship at Desna this coming Sunday, and also making a trip over to Lutsk for more distribution of the stuffed animals at the orphanage there and also to see Bro. Melanchuk's work there.