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Lera Balkan and
her son Daniel at the staff retreat in August. |
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Jeff Scoggins,
Artur Stele, and Artour Vasmout practice for special music at the staff
retreat. |
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The children of
division employees performed impromptu skits and songs at the staff retreat
in August. |
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Song service in
the forest during the staff retreat. |
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Communication
director Valery Ivanov and his son Alex. |
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Daniel Reband,
director of Russia's Voice of Hope radio and television ministry. Pastor
Reband was appreciated at the division staff retreat for his inspirational
talks and for his practical jokes. |
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Visibility in
Moscow was reduced to 50 meters during some weeks of summer 2002. The
haze was caused by peat and forest fires in surrounding regions. Peat
can smolder underground, causing trees to break off at the roots and fall. |
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Jeff Scoggins
in Armenia with a former police officer who recently became a Seventh-day
Adventist. |
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A newly built
Armenian Apostolic Church in Yerevan, the capital city of Armenia. |
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Global Mission workers with
a local Adventist woman at the ruins of a historic fortress on a hill
above Yerevan. |
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Rebecca Scoggins at the fortress
overlooking Yerevan, Armenia. The ruins are at least 2,700 years old.
Southern and central Armenia are dry and appear more Middle Eastern than
other parts of Euro-Asia. Mount Ararat rises to the south of the Yerevan,
just across the Turkish border. |
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Armenian children
at the ruins in Yerevan. |
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Cuneiform writing
on a wall at the fortress ruins. Some scholars connect the original builders
to the Chaldeans. |
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These children
live in one of Armenia's Assyrian communities. Their people are direct
descendents of the Assyrians mentioned throughout the Old Testament. An
Assyrian Adventist woman is working to plant a church among her people
in Armenia. |
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Rebecca Scoggins,
Doug Hardt, and Rick Kajiura in northern Armenia. These mountains were
at the epicenter of the deadly 1988 earthquake. |
