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Which role is the church playing in solving the conflict between Russia and the Ukraine, and which one should it play? That’s the issue the Conference that took place in the Evangelical Academy in Loccum (Germany) was trying to address. More than 10000 of civil and military victims, thousands of the wounded and traumatized, more than 3 mln. refugees – that’s the outcome of the conflict that started in 2014. What solutions may the church offer in this situation? The…

by: Galina Kolesnikova 9 Feb 2018 That kind of the miracle only God can do! In the dungeons of concrete, iron and bricks, in the steel-clamped hands, the heart and the soul of the man are free, and his body became the temple of the Holy Spirit, Who lives in him. The Lord hasn’t got any locks and any barriers. The condemned see the hands of the Lord Himself, Who gives them a cup of holy communion, a cup of…

by: Natalia Smirnova 5 March 2018 Mission is one of the key areas in the development of the United Methodist Church in Eurasia. We have been repairing church buildings, organizing summer activities for Roma children and people with disabilities, initiating Christian motocross for bikers and assisting in ministry to HIV-infected children in South Africa. You can become a missionary at any age. It is especially joyful when young people begin to prepare themselves for such hard ministry. The festival “When…

by: Elena Melnikova 28 Feb 2018 One more seminar of the women leadership training series, initiated by Women’s Ministry of Eurasia United Methodist Church Coordinator, Elena Melnikova, took place in October of 2017 under the umbrella of the Women’s Conference of the Volga District called “The Wise Virgins”. It was based on the biblical parable of the wise and foolish virgins, but this time we wanted to focus on what exactly makes the difference between wise and foolish, and what…

by: Katherina Tokareva 2 Feb 2018 The “Transfiguration” (“Prieobrazhenie”) Sochi United Methodist Church has been renting the audience for Sunday worships for a month and a half already. We’d like to share the joy with you, because for two years in a row we’d been gathering in our pastor Nadezhda’s apartment and realized one thing – we need to find a new accommodation so that new people could come. New people, as willing as they could be, would be unlikely…

by: Alexander Vecherskiy 9 Jan 2018 Pastor and the congregation of the United Methodist Church “Revival” in Satka worked very hard and donated their time and finances, especially last two months before the consecration, doing everything what is possible with their hands. The church people were praying and fasting, believing in God’s help. The members of the church were sharing that they were scared to start doing high ceilings and the floor tiles. After all the works we should clean…

by: Maria Afiyan 7 Dec 2017 One winter night I was looking through the archives of Uzhgorod United Methodist church. And all of a sudden, I found out, that we’re having a special anniversary and a remarkable event in our church’s history in September, 2017, that is – our ministry revival 25th anniversary. I called the pastor and told him about this. He asked me, if I’m going to organize the event. “With great pleasure”, I responded. In spring, during…

by: Katerina Tokareva 7 Sep 2017 An outreach trip to Kerch took place in August, 1st – 12th, when a team of volunteers could minister reconstructing the Methodist church in the city. Missionaries from Volgograd, Donetsk, Kerch, Sochi, Stavropol worked for the glory of God. They removed the old plaster, re-plastered and mudded the walls, painted the ceiling and walls. The result of two weeks work was a completely renovated large room on the ground floor of the Church where…

by: Sergei Nikolaev 9 Oct 2017 An important reason for the success of the Methodist Revival movement in eighteenth-century England was small groups. During the summer session in June, the seminary together with Mount Pisgah UMC, North Georgia Conference, organized the conference “Disciples Making Disciples.” The conference was dedicated to disciple-making and covenant groups. This conference is an important step in strengthening the tradition of small groups in the United Methodist Churches in Eurasia. . Over sixty students, pastors, and…

by:Vladimir Ditmar 9 Oct 2017 Summer’s coming to its end. It’s been raining cats and dogs whole week already. Who on earth has gotten an idea to have a summer camp on days like those?!.. But God is good all the time, and in the very end of August we finally saw sunshine and heard kids’ laughter and singing in Pskov UMC building. . From the very first moment up the folks found themselves in the thick of a mysterious…

by: Elena Melnikova 9 Oct 2017 A women ministry seminar for the Southern District of the United Methodist Church of Eurasia, called Women Leadership Empowerment Academy, took place on August 29 – September 3, 2017 in Golubitskaya village near Anapa city by the shore of the Azov sea. The new regional women ministry coordinator for the Southern District, Oksana Abramova, shares her impressions: “We started every morning praising God, praying, reading and meditating on the “Upper room” devotions under the…