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Al and Ellen Smith - 2004 - Page
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A Russian-style picnic: potatoes and vegetables
are roasting in the fire, a technique any Girl Scout would recognize. |
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Inside a log church under construction in Shatura.
Al is the tall one and Vitaly, the pastor of the church, is on Al’s
left. (We don’t know his last name yes, as Russians often
don’t use last names in social settings and it is sometimes
many visits before we get those.) On Al’s right is Pastor
Alexander of the Orechovo-Zuyevo church. The teenager is a member
of the Shatura youth group. |
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We are often at camp among the birches in Russia.
These young people are members of Transfiguration Baptist Church
in Oryol. |
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A village home in Russia. [Photograph by Kathy
Lessley, First Presbyterian Church, Franklin, Tennessee.] |
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