Gospel Expedition

We said farewell to the departing members of our Expedition in the morning. It is hard to say goodbye as they have become a part of our hearts. The service awaits us. There are 172 kilometers to a town with the interesting name of Raichikhinsk. There is an asphalt road for once, but we still had some flat tires, and at lunch time we arrived at the town. [Continue reading Ministry in “Paradise” …]

Today is really a good morning. Not only because the sun is shining brightly and there is no rain, but because the cyclists will be able to travel on racing bikes again. About 500 km of asphalt road are ahead of us, then there will be a dirt/gravel road for a period — the last time we face that — and then an asphalt road from Birobidzhan to Vladivostok. [Continue reading Ministry At The Chinese Border …]

After a long period of poor roads, a new team consisting of Boris Berezhnoi, soloist and leader of Blagovestie (Good News), and Albert Redin, leader and soloist of Inheritance — together with me, Leonid Kartavenko — joined the Expedition again at the airport in Blagoveschensk.

We arrived a day earlier and were able to meet the Expedition cyclists in Svobodny. I had parted with the Expedition in Kansk a month ago. On August 21, I saw them again but they looked like new people. They didn’t resemble those clean, neat men with whom we went to Germany, where the Expedition began. Now they were weather-beaten, brown, tired people, some with beards. They looked not only mature, but older. Only one thing did not change in their appearance — their shining eyes and unfailing desire to reach people with the Gospel. [Continue reading Evangelism Goes On Regardless . . . …]

At seven in the morning, the rain stopped and our moods improved. The night rain was a blessing for us. It meant a road without dust, which was very important. We were to travel 92 kilometers. The lack of good road did not threaten us any more. We have already spent two weeks along such “roads.” It was sunny but cloudy. Christian brothers and sisters from the Magdagachi church met us. [Continue reading Ministry to the Armenian Diaspora …]

When I look at the schedule of our Expedition and our visits to various towns, I sometimes ask myself a question — what awaits us in a new place? Usually the events of our schedule are quite similar — wakeup call, prayer, breakfast, the road, arrival, and evening meetings with people, dinner, prayer, and then sleep. The next day it’s the same schedule.

But behind these seemingly monotonous things there is something happening that we cannot describe with words. [Continue reading God is at Work Even in the Routine …]