Friends, I am back from Russia and have two things to share immediately. 1) First received today is a trailer for a film a young california director friend, Dmitry Trakovsky, is making. It is called ARCTIC CROSS and will focus on the faith of native people in Alaska and their whole world today... enjoy! and all comments welcome (ssigrist@xxxxxxxxx) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0513-DHBvVw&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL 2) secondly from Moscow a report from a news service website on a talk I gave at our Hosanna center in Moscow... http://www.pravmir.ru/episkop-serafim-sigrist-pravoslavie-eto-prosto-xristianstvo-foto/ the photographs (apart from the speaker ) are a wonderful gallery of faces aren't they? of people who come to our center...the subject (proposed by people from the Danielov center for ministry to youth) was Eastern Orthodoxy in the west and a main theme of mine was that freed from national identification and burdens of history in the west the church is challenged to be what it is in essence--what C.S.Lewis called Mere Christianity. Now beyond this, and of course I will be making more reports from the days in Russia and our work... this work needs your support. so note the information following the sign off here which really is important yours in this work we share +Seraphim Joseph Sigrist Donations for HOSANNA to The Patristic Society c.o 320 South Broadway, Unit P-7 Tarrytown New York 10591 (all correspondence to me: ssigrist@xxxxxxxxx, or sigrist@xxxxxxxx ) OR TO PAYPAL --CLICK ON "DONATE" BUTTON AT http://www.livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=hosanna AND FOLLOW THE SIMPLE DIRECTIONS TO MAKE CREDIT CARD OR BANK ACCOUNT DONATION.