Happy New (School) Year! What a joy it is to meet with a fresh classroom of students and to share faith in Christ with their inquisitive minds and hearts!
On this trip, I will be doing that in St. Petersburg, Moscow, Vladivostok, and Rybinsk, covering eight of the eleven time-zones of Russia and all three historical Church traditions – Orthodox, Catholic, and Protestant. Nearly half of my audiences will, however, be non-religious – university students, schoolteachers, and general public. My local ministry partners did a very good job of setting up my events on each day of my three-weeks-long travel – up to three presentations per day! While on the road, I will also continue teaching my regular online apologetics class at Belgorod Seminary (not having to get up at 5 am due to the eight-time-zone difference from Minnesota!) – to my first- and second-year groups of MDiv students.
So far, I have made it only two-thirds-of-the-way to my first destination, St. Petersburg. Both flight legs and the bus ride were late (by hours!), and, as a result, I missed my overnight train from Minsk. Luckily (or is it grace?) there is also an early morning flight which I am catching in few minutes – and I will be just-in-time for my first presentation at St. Paul’s Cathedral after the Sunday service.
