First day of filming in Kiev

Videographer John Gerhart and his steady-cam

Greetings from the Radooga offices in Kiev, Ukraine. We are smack dab in the middle of our first day of shooting, and are focused today on the story of Oleg Vasilevsky and how MDI has influenced him as a leader.

Our day of travel was long, with some pretty significant layovers in Detroit and Amsterdam, but everything arrived on time. An even greater miracle was our situation going through customs. All of our checked baggage, 12 items total, arrived safely, and we received absolutely zero flack from passport control or customs. This is seriously praiseworthy!

The wonderful Sveta Boiko was waiting for us with a large van to carry all of our gear, and off we went to our apartment building.  Another small miracle occurred as the large freight elevator, which had been broken at the beginning of the day, was functioning just long enough for us to get all our equipment and baggage upstairs, until it broke again.  We already see the hand of God blessing this trip in some obvious ways!

Tonight it is off to New Life Church to film Anatoly Kaluzhny preaching, and then tomorrow we will spend a whole day filming him.  We leave for Odessa Saturday.

Thank you for your prayers and please keep lifting us up!

-Russell Anderson for the MDI team