Friday (Milestones)


Tonight, after the meeting we will have been here one week and the series will be half over. The time has gone by fast but the days have been full of hard work with some fun mixed in. Natasha’s husband is coming on Sunday to stay with us for a day and we hope to do some sight-seeing with him. I understand that Dubno has some interesting places of historical significance including a castle and I really don’t want to come all the way here and not see them.

Today, as I was working on tomorrow’s presentation, which is on baptism, I found a place where I could use some pictures that I took while touring in Kiev (pronounced Keeve). The pictures were of Vladimir’s Cathedral and his baptism. Vladimir was a great Russian prince who became a Christian and inside the cathedral there are beautiful murals on almost every flat surface. Beside the door was one of his baptism which took place in 1088 AD in Kiev and was significant to me because he was being baptized by immersion. A couple of hundred years after this the church of that time decided that they would also allow sprinkling and infant baptism as well although these practices are not biblical. I’m really glad I took these pictures because they fit very well into the presentation and they add a strong local flavor.