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by: Clayton Childers 11 DEC 2018 Seventeen Russian pastors and church leaders, (3 men and 14 women), gathered on October 15-20 near the city of Vladivostok for a five-day training on the United Methodist Social Principles. Rev. Andrei Kim, DIstrict Superintendent for the (Eurasian) Far East District, said: “This is our first opportunity to host a Social Principles training in the Far East of Russia. Travel is always a challenge in our district; the district covers three zones. A number…

by: Elvira Solnechnaya 21 Sep 2018 The Christian Conference on Discipleship and Covenant Groups that took place in June of this year in the hamlet of Oktyabrskiy near Moscow was the second such conference. The previous conference took place last summer. This Conference was designed for Christians who were already “on fire,” for seekers, for those who were not satisfied with their current spiritual lives, for those who wanted to grow as people, for those who wanted to know the…

автор: Tatiana Vladimirova “For the first time, I visited Academy for Spiritual Formation in Voronezh in June 2015. That was the first ASF in Russia, which was intriguing by itself. I couldn’t even guess how astounded I would be within these 5 days. ASF theme that year was Renewal relationship with God. I had almost 20 years of walking with God, tons of lectures and seminars attended, as a pastor I myself organized different classes. But I truly can’t express…

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…