15 October 2008

JYC Instructors' Course in Russia

Photo album
I have just returned from Kursk, Russia where I was teaching a Youth Challenge Instructors’ Course. The 17 eager students and 5 staff traveled from Latvia, Azerbaijan and from right across the Russian Federation. Two young women even traveled from Vladivostock in the far east of the country (a flight lasting 10 hours). Another came from near the border with Mongolia. One of my co-instructors Tatanya came from Siberia. You may remember that in October 2007 she made the 4 day journey by train to be one of my students in the Ukraine!
It’s so thrilling to know that these students (mostly CEF full-time workers) are now going out across this vast country to train hundreds of people in the work of evangelising and discipling 11–15 year olds.

2 comments:

  1. Thanks for posting the pics and the updates!
    That looks like the Baptist church in Kursk I visited in the mid-90s. At that time, it was still being built. :-) It looked huge (for a Russian church) back then and even bigger now.

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  2. Hi Tim, great to hear from you. I have been enjoying your photos from DC also! Yes it's a big church and it was well filled on Sunday.
    God bless,
    Gary

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