Day 7

Thanks to GMP for including our train ride picture from the blog in their monthly newsletter!

Several of us have enjoyed shopping at the open air market this week. It reminds us of something out of a fairy tale.

We had a fantastic day of touring the city. It started with Red Square and viewing Lenin’s body. The room was dark and cold and he looked like an ordinary, short Caucasian man. It was an object lesson on how fragile men of power really are and who they will ultimately answer to.

We ate lunch in the GUM, the 3-story mall that covers a city square and borders the Red Square. What irony that the former communist offices were turned into a capitalistic mecca.

After lunch, we toured St. Basil’s cathedral. It is actually 9 churches dedicated to orthodox saints. The walls are beautifully painted up to the high ceilings, and the artwork on the alters was exquisite. A men’s quartet singing in the central church added to the beauty.

We took the metro to the outskirts of the city to a beautiful overlook in Vorovyo Gory Park. After a long steep hike to the top, we took a relaxing ski lift down.

Five of us decided to visit the Cathedral of Christ our Savior, the biggest cathedral in Moscow. It was stunning! Everything looked much newer as it was completed in 2000, but the style and artwork was similar to the ancient cathedrals.

Please pray for our last day in Moscow, that we would play with excellence and many people would be touched by spiritual truth.