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2015 September-October. Krasnoyarsk, Novosibirsk

September 29, 2015 By Dr. Oleg Voskresensky, Teacher

Oh, what a week it was in Krasnoyarsk! This was my fourth visit there and my hosts already knew what our FaithSearch ministry is about and what impact it makes on different audiences – school teachers, youth, church people, lay leaders, etc. – and planned my days accordingly. That meant early wake-ups, and two—or even three—events per day, ending with a well-into-the-night conversation, usually in the kitchen. On some days, I would travel to a small town three hours each way to conduct a training for their public school teachers and lay-leaders and then have another presentation on that same evening to a youth group in the church back in Krasnoyarsk. These young people do not care about sleep at all and are willing to continue our discussion until the sunrise. My last one with them ended less than thirty minutes before my train to Novosibirsk—and five of them even squeezed into the car in order to continue our Q&A session right up until my train took off.

This time around, apart from the FaithSearch Discovery CDs and the Surprised by Faith books, I was bringing a special gift to the Krasnoyarsk Lutheran Church, carried from Minnesota: a church bell. It was not actually a gift, as they paid for it. They had it delivered to me and asked me to bring it to them in my suitcase. These things are insanely expensive in Russia these days but they found and bought one on eBay™ very cheaply. I agreed to deliver it right to their door – if they would pay me back for the delivery by putting together a good week-long teaching schedule for me in their city. The deal seems to have worked for both parties. In fact, they must have overpaid me by far!

I hope to catch up with some sleep now in Novosibirsk as my visit here is planned out not by “crazy Russians” but by a British missionary – very properly and orderly. So far, I have done one presentation last night at a Pentecostal Church, and I will be doing one per day on most of the days here to a variety of audiences – secular, Baptist, Orthodox. As always, I expect some “unexpected” additional ministry opportunities to present themselves as the word gets out about the FaithSearch Russian Ministry being in town. Of course, I contacted local churches, ministries, Bible schools and universities ahead of time but – oh, Russians! – many of them do not believe I even exist until they hear my voice on the phone from their train station.

It rains all day today in Novosibirsk and it is good to stay inside until the time of my presentation tonight, and to answer some E-mails from home. I am trying now to remember what the weather  was like back in Krasnoyarsk… but I can’t. I would fall asleep (even if for 15 minutes!) each time they put me into

a car to drive from place to place, from town to town. But I clearly remember their faces – shining from within with excitement and with interest to learn more about Christ!

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2015 September-October. Russia: Siberia

September 8, 2015 By Dr. Oleg Voskresensky, Teacher

My September teaching trips are usually the hardest to plan, as the planning period falls right into the summer break and vacations times in Russia. Teachers and students don’t even want to think of what they will be doing in the September and October! Luckily, some ministries and churches work hard all year long, and I only have to fill a few days with teaching-the-teachers events.

My geography will again be partially dictated by the incredibly inexpensive air tickets within Russia these days due to the falling ruble. I will first fly to the Eastern Siberia city of Krasnoyarsk for a week of teaching in Lutheran and Orthodox Church communities as well as the local Christian Teachers Association. I will then make my way back to Moscow, stopping for a week of teaching in Baptist and Pentecostal Churches and state universities in Novosibirsk. The last week of my trip will involve training clergy and lay leaders in and around Moscow region, with a possible quick two-day run to Tatarstan.

I can’t wait to meet my audiences and try some new presentation material I have developed since my last trip in July.

Please continue your prayers for the last-minute changes, corrections, and confirmations. Russians don’t like to plan so far ahead as even a couple of weeks (see more about that and some other cross-cultural Russian-American perspectives in my recent article in the Star Tribune.)

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