My team arrived in St.
Petersburg at 2am on Thursday. On Friday we did
interviews with the students and I was able to see several students that I met
last year. We have about 60 students in our program this year. The two girls I
got closest to last year, Masha and Yulia aren’t in our program this year
because of studying for their exams, but they did come to the school to study
and I got to see them.
On Saturday about 40
of the students went with our team to visit Peterhof, which is a fountain park
that Peter the Great and Catherine the Great built. It was a bit of a long day
for me and I was a little discouraged by how little my personal group of
students talked with me, but I know that the first few days are the hardest.
On Sunday we went to a Russian/English church in the center
of the city after church my team went to the house of an American government
security man and his family. They are believers and have been in St. Petersburg for 6
months. My teammate Ben plays guitar and we sang a bunch of worship songs with
this family. They haven’t found a church yet and were really encouraged by our
visiting with them. Please pray for Charles and Ginger to find a good church
community here.
Classes start tomorrow; please pray for good connections
with the students and for my team to have energy.
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