Wednesday was our last day in Samara, but was a very good day at that. We began with a river cruise on the Volga with many members of the church,…

Sorry for the short post tonight, we just got back to the hotel and it's already 12:30am here. Jeff started us off with a nice devotional today about the importance…

We got a bit of a later start this morning since we didn't have a devotional before leaving for church. They only have an 11:00 service at the church, so…

We once again started our morning with a devotional over Romans 10:8-10 and Matthew 28:16-20. We were reminded that although we may have a language barrier with the people of…

Everyone seemed to have gotten a good night's sleep after our long day of travel and we were all up and had eaten by 9 for our morning devotional. The…

Welcome to the blog! If you haven't already heard, a group from HPCUMC has journeyed to Samara, Russia in order to do mission work with our sister church, Samara United…