We had a fairly eventful day, starting with church in Russian, with a couple of praise song tunes we recognized. The sermon was in Russian but the Pastor's wife, Maia, translated it for us at the back of the room. The theme was Harvest celebration with fruit on the table, Spiritual Fruit, but also relationships. He did a great job to weave them altogether into a foundational message of Christianity.
We had to leave immediately after the sermon to catch our plane to Kharkov. We met a couple from Chicago, Illinois – he was a retired physics prof from Chicago University and described himself as a scientific apologist. When he heard what we were doing he wanted to get his Kharkov team in touch with ours. So John exchanged emails and phone numbers etc. and we embarked on the plane. The starboard engine failed to start on three attempts, but after a quick repair, on the 4th try it worked. Other than that we had an uneventful flight to Kharkov, a very old Soviet style airport. We landed and went to collect our luggage only to find that Bruce’s bag had not been loaded! Well this required some discussion and logging of paper work and understanding that it would be sent on the next flight. We then repaired to the flat of Sergei and Lyudmila (Luda for short) who speaks excellent UK English. Sergei is going to Seminary (Presbyterian). We had a briefing and it looks like we are going to have about 40-50 students evenly split between elementary and advanced levels.
Bruce just got back from the airport and no suitcase, but he is taking it philosophically.
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