I just got back from a week in Moscow. By far, the highlight of the week was Saturday's graduation and homecoming celebrations. As you can see, we had 11 graduates. (Actually, I thought there were twelve, but I can't think of who the missing person is.) One of the special things about this group is that several of them have been commuting from the Caucasus region to our "Moscow extension" program for over five years and have finally made it to graduation. Since this year marks the 10th anniversary of the seminary, we also held a special homecoming celebration. So we went all out to make our former students feel at home. The alumni response was a bit disappointing - several people dropped out just a couple of days before graduation. But it still was a very fun day for everyone.
We shot lots of pictures and are working on a video of the events. Hopefully we can put them on the web (e.g., YouTube) before too long -- but it would all be in Russian.
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