Orphanage Information

I received another "final" information letter today from Rev. Clark with our assignments to the orphanages for the first three nights we'll be in Moscow. I'm assigned to the Sergiev Posad Psychological Orphanage, located about 35 miles northeast of downtown Moscow (see the map). There will be seven of us staying together there. I talked to Rev. Clark this evening and he said "That's one of the tough ones, especially if they let you on the second floor." Pray hard, friends!

After we move to the Hotel Ismaylovo Delta we will be doing some of these things in our spare time: shopping on Arbat Street, the Underground Mall, the Ismaylovo Market and GUM Department Store. We will have lunch at Patio Pizza and tour the Kremlin and Red Square and Glazunov Gallery. We will attend church services at Christ Our Savior Orthodox Cathedral and First United Methodist Church of Moscow. We will go to the ballet on January 4th and see an evening performance (probably folk-dancing) on January 6th. We may not get to go to the circus but that's not certain. Whatever we do will be memorable!