-Sven Ljungholm on FSAOF.blogspot.com - "
In
our individual preparation for Easter, and as we take this time to
journey through Lent, I want to take you to Moscow, in the spring of
1992. It is Easter Sunday morning and we conducted our service in a
rented thousand seat auditorium; our “hall” for the last several months.
It was the first Easter service conducted in a Moscow, Russia Salvation
Army hall in 70 years, the last one having been celebrated by my
grandfather, Adjutant Otto Ljungholm.
Near the front of the hall, in
the shadow of a twelve-foot cross sat a girl of twelve or thirteen. By
this time she had been coming to the corps regularly along with others
from a nearby orphanage. As I brought the Easter message I was gripped
by what seemed like secretive, searching glances of this young girl. Her
eyes darted from the cross, to me and then to a poorly dressed woman
seated some distance away."
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