Bike trip - August 29 - Luchegorsk town

The town Luchegorsk is the first location, which we visited in Primorie area, the last area of the Expedition to visit. The population here is over 20 thousand people. There are two big water power stations and a mine, clean beautiful streets and many-story dwelling houses.

The church here was founded not long ago. There are no men in the church, only 11 middle-aged ladies. They have a one-room flat where they come together for the worship services. Once a month (minimum) a church minister visits sisters to have the Lord’s Supper service there.

The meeting was planned to be held in the central park. Right after lunch our men went out to invite people to the meeting. They visited the office of the local road inspection and militia, met commanders there, who said they would send servicemen to keep order at the meeting. It was good for them to listen to the Good News also.

The meeting began at 17:00 p.m. We were excited if people could come as it was a working day. But people came. At the beginning of the meeting the vice-chairman of the local Administration greeted people and the Expedition. After that we presented our program. Boris Berezhnoi and Albert Redin sang. Vladimir I. Skovpen, our chief cyclist, told people about his way to God. Our tallest biker Yuri from Belgorod town also shared his testimony. Constantine Petrov, Pastor from Ussuriisk preached. He also coordinates Russian ECB Union youth work in Primorie area.

People stayed after the service and our talks continued. The meeting with believers was planned for 20:00 p.m. We though about an hour service but singing, preaching, prayers continued without limits. We could continue all nigh long, but we were to get up early next morning. We decided to continue our fellowship in Heavenly Jerusalem when we meet there. There will be a lot of time there and we will not be in a hurry.  After the service we noticed that someone stole a Russian flag from our car. We felt sorry and then prayed to God.

It so happened that there was not enough sleeping places for all. So all spare places were occupied in the kitchen and in corridor. God blessed our sleep and at 5:30 a.m. we got up and a new day of ministry began.