
Iglino, a village not far from Ufa, Bashkortostan, was the location of a family retreat where the couple Sergei and Veronika Kochetkov warmly welcomed us in their house.
The head of the household opened the retreat. On the first day, we discussed how and in what order God created man and woman, the first marriage as the type of all marriages, and Adam and Eve as the marriage of one man and one woman. Then, Valeri and I shared about “stumbling blocks” in a marriage and the “foundation stones” on which family life rests. Besides the seminars, we went for wonderful walks in the village and visited a riding club where we could feed the horses and the children had a chance to ride them. The day ended in an evening program as we sang hymns around a campfire and of course went to a sauna.


Thanks be to God for all the participants from the Uralic and Moscow Deaneries! Special thanks to Sergei and Veronika for their hospitality and their ministry in the Lord’s field as family workers!