Day 2: The City of Vladimir

Hello Dear Brothers and Sisters! We had a fantastic day today, which began with breakfast and a morning devotion. We then had a meeting with the staff of CC Vladimir to get a layout of our schedule for our time in Russia. After that, we headed out to get familiar with the city, being helped by our translators Roma and Liza. Immediately after leaving the church building, Ron and Roma began evangelizing; handing out gospel tracts and talking to people about where they were going to spend eternity. With them being such great examples, the rest of us started passing out tracts to people on the streets and even getting into some conversations with the help of our translators.

On our journey around the city we performed two mini concerts singing a song we learned in Russian while Ron played guitar. One of the witness encounters we had was while we were touring a monastery for the Russian Orthodox Church. While sitting in an elaborately decorated chapel, we struck up a conversation with a man who was visiting from Brazil. He didn't speak very much Russian, but he did speak English well. After sharing the law and gospel with him, we were able to leave him with a Million Dollar Bill tract in English.

After an eventful day we then headed back to the Church to have dinner, which Lena (Pasha's wife) prepared for us.  Then we were blessed by attending a prayer and worship service with the local body at CC Vladimir. What an awesome thing to worship the Lord together. We leave for Ivonovo tomorrow afternoon. Thank you for your prayers, we continue to pray that the Holy Spirit would guide and direct our steps.

"But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth." Acts 1:8

With Much Love in Christ-
Russia Team 2013