Here's an update from Laura as she wraps up the British project in St. Petersburg, along with a couple of photos of the team in action.
Before we even left Russia - 2 new members of the family! We met the first one, Sasha, won the university campus nearest our flats. Some of our team were playing guitar and worshipping, some were praying, and some were using a tool we've found to be a great conversation starter - 'Soularium'.
It's a collection of 50 images, and we ask students to respond to questions ranging from how they see their lives and how they wish their lives were, to which images they think represent God and why. It's a great way to speak to people, especially when we have a language barrier!
Lizzie and Arjen were doing Soularium with a student called Sasha and they shared with her an Agape booklet called Knowing God Personally (the Russian version is called 'The Four Spiritual Laws'...somewhat more imposing but there we go. At least it's in their own language!) Sasha decided that this really was Good News and said yes pretty much immediately! She came along to most of our get-togethers (more on those later) afterwards, and became a real part of our community.
Tomorrow . . . the story of Nikolai, a former skeptic
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