In Cherepovets

We are back in Cherepovets again, and it feels like home.

Our tip went well! At one point, we were kind of worried, because it looked like we wouldn’t have enough time to get to our connecting flight in Frankfurt, and we were not able to get ahold of Vitaly, our driver from Moscow to Cherepovets. But, we prayed and trusted God, realizing these things were out of our control.

Fast asleep on the plane! ;)

The weather made our connecting flight in Frankfurt late so we had more than enough time, and as soon as we got to Moscow we received a text from Vitaly. Luckily, he just waited for us, even though our flight was an hour and a half late! God is good. The ride home seemed quick and easy, we slept almost the whole way.

As we settle in I realize that this is home. God has called us here, and we believe that He will provide for us to stay and minister. On the plane I read a good book, Tortured for His Faith, an auto biography of Haralan Popov, who was a pastor imprisoned in Communist Bulgaria. He was in prison and tortured for 13 years. When he was released he started a ministry smuggling Bibles into the Soviet Union. It really encouraged me of the necessity to bring sound teaching of God’s Word to Russia. He made an interesting statement that really struck me:

Tortured For His Faith on Amazon

“No one can begin to describe in words the empty void in the heart of a Christian denied God’s Word. Nothing could be more ‘unnatural.’ It is like a fish without water, or a bird without air. Christians are creatures of God’s Word and must have that Word to grow spiritually.”

We are creatures of God’s Word, and our mission is to bring the Word to Christians, like water to fish and air to birds, without which we can’t live or grow.