The Missionary's Trip
Resisting the greatest of temptation on a mission trip
I landed in Russia for my final mission trip before graduating from Divinity School. I was supposed to stay at a parsonage, but the room that I was to stay in was being used by someone else, so they arranged for me to stay with an older couple who spoke English. Oleg and Polina, along with their granddaughter, Anna. Oleg worked long days at a factory, and Polina was a nurse. She, too, worked long hours at the hospital. I...