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2018 December: Sakhalin, Ussuriysk, Komsomolsk-na-Amure

December 20, 2018 By Dr. Oleg Voskresensky, Teacher

God is great and His angels are amazing! During the week of ministry in Sakhalin, I felt very encouraged by the interest and enthusiasm of teachers and students. I also felt very sick from the cold and the winds of their shores and sea ports. One presentation per day was just enough for me and my hosts graciously allowed me to spend the rest of the time in my cell (rooms are called cells in the diocese dorm) taking in bottles of medicines, gallons of herb beverages and piles of pills. Planning this trip I was so much hoping to ski at least once on their beautiful resort that runs straight into one of the city parks. Alas! I was still too sick and the temps outside went even further down on my last day there. Seeing how exhausted I was after the lecture and probably feeling how much I needed a bit of encouragement at the moment, one of the students at the Pedagogical University offered her help in packing my projector and cables while saying: “You gave us so much today! Great food for the mind and for the soul!” Thank you, the Angel of Sakhalin!

I must still have been not quite 100% that same evening upon arrival to Khabarovsk airport and was, therefore, very thankful to hosts for picking me up there and driving me to my seminary dorm for the night. The driver was also willing to take me to my presentation location on the next morning and just needed directions so I put him on the speaker-phone with my contact at the university. Now, imagine me hearing the following conversation:

Driver: Oleg is saying that you are on Timiryazyeva Street, right?

Professor: Yes, in the city center. Where will you be coming from?

Driver: From Turgeneva Street?

Professor: Hm, where is it?

Driver: Right in the center. Next to the diocese office and to the seminary.

Professor: We do not have a seminary in Ussuriysk…

Driver: That’s what I was thinking: Khabarovsk University is not on Timiryazyeva Street…

Apparently, while talking through every little detail (date and time, street address and even room number) of my presentation at the University in our many e-mails, neither the professor nor I have ever mentioned what city their campus is in. To make the story short: I found myself 574 km off the mark. While I was still gradually recovering from the shocking news, my driver has already called a couple of friends and asked them to look up bus and railroad routs and schedules on their computers. In two minutes the report came back: Oleg should catch the train to Ussuriysk that leaves in about 45 minutes (and arrives there 2 hours before the lecture), deliver his lecture and hop on a return train that same evening for Khabarovsk where they will meet him on the next morning at the train station and drive him to the bus terminal just in time for the bus to Komsomolsk-na-Amure (arrives 30 min before the lecture there). It sounded a little complicated but I did exactly what they said and didn’t miss (and was not even late to) any of my events. Thank you, dear Angels of Khabarovsk!

I am now finishing my presentations in Komsomolsk – a typical soviet-times city with not much look at accept for the river of Amur all covered with ice and not much to hear accept for the deafening roar of fighter jets taking off maybe 500 yards away from my dorm several times a day (including nights). My teachers and my university students here were absolutely wonderful – curious and engaged in the process and very grateful at the end of the presentation. This provincial city with its rather harsh climate gives them very little in terms of recreation and entertainment, so they work hard and study hard. At least, my classes were not too difficult and many of them were expressing interest in using FSDiscovery material in their classrooms because it is, according to one of them: 1) absolutely unique, 2) fun and 3) absolutely essential in forming their students’ mindset and world outlook. Thank you, dear Angels of Komsomolsk!

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2018 December: Kamchatka

December 9, 2018 By Dr. Oleg Voskresensky, Teacher

After all was said and done—with delayed flights and an unscheduled overnight stay in Tokyo—it did not take that much less time flying over the Pacific Ocean than it would have over the Atlantic. Praise the Lord, I still made it to Kamchatka on time—two hours before I was scheduled to speak at the Conference opening ceremony. I am glad they let me change my clothes right in the City Hall Director’s office, as all other speakers kindly looked the other way. I am also glad my laptop battery lasted through my whole presentation and died seconds after I finished (there were no electric outlets anywhere near the lectern to plug it in). After spending the whole night changing planes in the Vladivostok airport and then in flight to Petropavlovsk (loosing two time zones in the process), I was too tired and very disoriented to realize how low the battery charge was. Praise the Lord for taking care of these little things for me when I am not able to!

I am also grateful to Him for my hosts here! I have a very comfortable private “cell” to stay in their church-house, with three meals provided and somebody always willing to give me a ride to my next venue—whether the State University, the Teacher’s Continuing Training Center, the Medical College, Army base, or Penitentiary Department, etc., etc.

Speaking of which, I just cannot believe how interested and engaged my audience was—prison guards, security officers, and other penitentiary staff—when I presented FaithSearch Discovery at their training conference! My hosts were extremely worried and warned me many times about this “tough crowd”: that they might be difficult and even offensive to the message of God’s love and mercy.

I was reminded that what they see everyday does not necessarily represent the best of humanity but that most of them are well trained professionals and officers who value professionalism in others very highly. That turned out to be the key. My appeal to their rationality and logical thinking got them on the track of making discoveries—step by step, one after another. “Tough crowd,” eh? If God is for us, who can be against us?

My last two days in Kamchatka were divided among an Evangelical church, a Medical college, a military base and an Orthodox group—totally different audiences within fifty miles around Petropavlovsk. There was, however, also something the same in the audience each time: a sense of surprise and joy of discovering a new and important aspect of life: life with God. The title of one of C.S. Lewis’ books which contained these two words kept coming back to me as I looked in the eyes of the people in the audience: cadets and officers; students and teachers; lay leaders and clergy.

Praise God, who is able still to surprise us—and those who hear His Gospel—with His joy and with faith in His truth! 

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