Yesterday evening I met the seminar's participants, and was a bit surprised by our small numbers. Last year we had around 20, and it looks like this year we'll have around 10. It seems that there are a number of reasons for this, but the prime one being that not many places got the invitation on time. After today, though, I see that our small numbers are not really that much of a disadvantage – we have a few people in the group who are really new to church life (in addition to being quite young), so I'm happy we'll be able to work with them in a smaller group and address the various levels among the students. There were 4 people back from last year, all of whom are quite experienced; I hope we'll be able to make it interesting for them. One of them, Andrey, is a preacher in Magadan, in the northeast part of the country. It turns out that he was on the same flight as I was yesterday. That means he flew first 7 hours to Moscow to the west and then 3 hours to Omsk to the east! Apparently that's the cheapest way to go – there is no train service up there...and don't even ask about roads.
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