Emergency Prayer Request

One of the family friends, Tanya, I have mentioned before as she is one of my artist friends and sends me occasionally interesting tidbits for this blog. However, she is now in tremendous need of prayer!\

Her father died last week,quite suddenly, and so she traveled back to her village in the Caucasus Mountains for the funeral. She then returned to Rostov-na-Donu for her flight back home. At the airport, she was arrested as an illegal immigrant and refused exit from Russia.

Now, she is an American citizen and traveling under her American passport. She is being told that she has to apply for Russian citizenship before an exit visa will be allowed and to complicate matters, her American passport has been seized.

So she is sort of up a creek right now as she has no money, no papers, her family here has no access to any of her property, all of her citizenship materials are here, as are her finances. And, there is no American consulate staff in the south of Russia. So she is stuck. Of course, the longer this takes, more problems will arise for her such as loss of her job here and loss of her home.

We are praying for a miracle here in her life in order to get her home! Please join me in what might be quite a prayer battle to get her freed!