I have the privilege of introducing our guests, Genna and Larissa. Why don't you join us up here?

Give them a hand, they're coming, they've come a long way to be in real Tennessee.

We first met Genna and Larissa. It's been, we were trying to, it's been at least 20 years.

Some of you, one of the families who were a part of World Outreach when we were really a fledgling congregation

just trying to find our way was Dr. Ed Mrs. Bob Hackman.

And Dr. Hackman met Genna and visited Belarus.

And after that, if you had a five minute conversation

with Dr. Hackman, you had to get an update

on Genna and Belarus. And my parents have been and we have been

friends and they have been here before but we've had the privilege of making a

journey together now for I think it's at least 20 years.

Your children were small and they're not so small any longer.

You're going to be a grandma mom.

Yes.

Hallelujah, that's exciting.

But I thought sometimes we Americans are not the best at geography.

And I won't ask you how many of you could find Belarus on a map, but I did ask the guys that are smarter than me if they could put the map for us on the screens.

So you will know where Belarus fits in relation to Ukraine. We hear a lot about Ukraine these days in the news.

And Belarus is a neighbor just to the north. They both border Russia and so we're going to talk a bit

about that whole region of the world but I thought if we had that.

Matt Belarus has a little over 9 million people which Tennessee has about 6 million plus or

minus so they're about 50% larger than the state of Tennessee with their

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