Street Stories - A Ringside Seat To Over 4 Decades Of Taking Jesus To The Streets Of The World

But all the doors except one door remained locked day and night. The one door that remained unlocked was surrounded by armed Russian military guards that checked each and every person who entered and exited the hotel. I realized locking all of those doors but one was a form of government control and manipulation. The people could see all the access and freedom they could have, but that access and those freedoms were denied and controlled with military force. This country afforded its citizens no freedoms like those of us who live in the free world experience every day. Late in the afternoon, a couple of young men who lived in Moscow but worked alongside Pastor Dwayne and helped with the establishing of The Christian Life School of Theology, invited me to go with them to their apartment nearby and talk to them about our mission there and about life in America. They picked me up in their car and we went to their humble apartment. These two young men made us some sandwiches and then began to ask me lots of questions. They were very inquisitive. I will never forget when one of them asked me, “In America, when something good happens do you say, hot dog?” I didn’t quite understand the question, so he asked me again. “When something good happens do you say, ‘hot dog?’ ” I started to laugh and realized some people in America when they express excitement use the expression, with hard intonation, “Hot Dog!” I told them that if something really exciting happens, we may add to that and say, “Hot Diggity Dog!”

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