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	—Gregory Toole
	In the fall of 2009, I journeyed to Ukraine and Russia to visit with our Science of Mind spiritual communities who would be attending conferences in Crimea, Ukraine, and Sochi, Russia, each along different sides of the Black Sea. I quickly discovered that the Science of Mind is thriving in this part of the world. I saw how the dedication of a few individuals over an extended period of time is making a significant difference in people’s lives. There is Rev. Barbara Leger, who moved to Ukraine from California some eight years ago to establish a community in the city of Cherkasy, and who traveled the country teaching Science of Mind, sometimes by train or bus for twenty-four hours each way to teach a weekend class. There were American ministers such as Barbara Rush, Bob Grabowski, and Ron Rude, and practitioners Robert Travis, Ron Skeen, and many others who traveled or lived in Russia over a period of many years, some as many as twenty years, to teach Science of Mind classes. Then there were the fruits of these early teachers in the form of native-born Russian Science of Mind practitioners such as Rev. Gala Emelyanova, who has now taught a cadre of Russian practitioners over a period of ten years at her center in Izhevsk, and Rev. Alexander Tensin and Irina Babushkina, who lead Science of Mind centers in the Russian cities of Sochi and Nizhny Novgorod, respectively. Imagine the vision of some of these early teachers and spiritual leaders venturing to teach Science of Mind as the Soviet Union was evolving to become a collection of independent Eastern European countries, including today’s Ukraine and Russia. What has the role of Science of Mind been in this unfolding history? Though probably immeasurable in any practical sense, one visit to this region made it clear to me that the impact is significant. The same sort of testimonies I’ve heard in the United States over the years from those who have studied and practiced Science of Mind, I was now hearing in Russian through an interpreter. The same tears and smiles of healing and breakthrough, of lives being changed, were now before me in a different language and culture.

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