All,

the team has safely arrived into the Minsk International Airport on July 16 with no lost luggage (!) Praise the Lord, and checked into the Orbita hotel. We had a wonderful and refreshing dinner altogether and then a short cultural orientation.

On July 17 we had a full morning orientation with Ambassador Training and practicing in small groups, as well as meeting our 6 interpreters.

We safely travelled to the city of Grodno (western Belarus) in the afternoon and checked into the Belarus Hotel there, had dinner there and met 2 ministers (each one called Dima) :-) of the Baptist church “Hope” that we are going to be working with.