Last Weekend and Next

Last weekend my church, the Moscow International Church dedicated its new building, which is shared with two other churches. We had quite a dedication service. Even though its quite a large church, there was not even room to stand. Most of the service was in Russian, and translation ear pieces were avaliable for English speakers. The sermon, however was in English, and was given by the President of the global Seventh-Day Adventist church, Jan Paulsen.

There were also, a number of representatives from the Russian government welcoming our new church. There included a rep from the Russian Presidential Administration, a rep from the Russian Parlimentary Ministry of Culture, and a rep from the City of Moscow. Also present, were people from the Euro-Asia Division, and The head of the Commitee of Protestant Churches in Russia. Lots of big-wigs! But most important was the presence of the spirit and the atmosphere of worship of belivers from all over Russia. This new building will house three of Moscows ~15 SDA churches.

After lunch, I and several friends went to Navina and Monica's house for lunch. Her potato casserole was really really good! Lunch was super good.

As for Sunday, I slept in really late, and not a lot happened. I was researching train tickets to Kazan, then St. Petersburg, but we ened up decided to go to Kiev, Ukraine for this weekend's long holiday. It is National Defence of the Motherland Day on Thursday, and we get a four day weekend. Navina and I are going to visit the English Language Center in Kiev, and do some sightseeing.