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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…

by: Edgars Šneiders, Urs Schweizer Sep 28 2017 When the congregations gather to celebrate, their pastors become very visible as leaders of the worship services and as preachers of the Gospel. But being a pastor means much more than just preaching on Sundays. And the Methodist pastors all over Europe impact many people far beyond their congregants – as a variety of examples from Latvia underline. Kuldīga UMC has started a shower and laundry project for nearby residents, through which…

Sep 27 2017 September 9-13, 2017 the annual meeting of the European Methodist Council took place in the suburbs of London, England. Bishops, pastors and leaders representing Methodist churches in Europe participated in the meeting. This year the meeting took place in the very heart of Methodism. John Wesley lived, believed and preached in England many years ago. The movement of Methodists was born there and then grew out of the boundaries of the United Kingdom, spread throughout the world…

by: Sifredo Teixeira Sep 26 2017 Sharing Jesus through words and actions, making disciples who will make disciples: this is the way the Methodist Church in Portugal is accomplishing the mission given by God. The actual experience of one of the local churches, Mirante Methodist Church in Porto, is an inspiring one. Mirante Methodist Church is the oldest Methodist church, located in the center of the second largest city of the country. Although the majority of its members and participants…

by: Ivan Perestov Thursday 20 June 2019 г. “Our God Jesus Christ fills churches with His Holy presence. It is great that young people feel and answer His calling. . With faith and hope in our hearts we look for personal relations with God, and our path is the desire to be like Christ, be of His image, and be the source of God’s Grace… We are grateful that we are able to take responsibility and care for our church…

by: Irina Mitina Novotroitskaya mission 2017 – Summer Guest Playground Ministry with Roma people is a challenge and a blessing! This summer we had our second summer vacation camp for Roma children in Novotroitskaya, Stavropol Krai (region). We call it “camp” for short. The legal name was “a summer guest playground” SGP according to the legal language of the Russian Federation and because the children did not stay all day long and were free to come to our playground or…

by: John Calhoun “Be Peacemakers, Strive for Reconciliation!” The United Methodist Church of Eurasia Holds a Ukrainian-Russian Peace Dialogue It is now more than three years since armed conflict erupted in the heart of eastern Europe. In February 2014, the center of Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, was engulfed by violent confrontations between protesters and police that left more than 100 people dead and many more injured. The upheaval led the (former) President Victor Yanukovich to flee Ukraine, resulting in…

CALL TO ACTION BY PARTICIPANTS OF THE UKRAINIAN-RUSSIAN PEACE DIALOGUE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH OF EURASIA “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.” Matthew 5:9 The United Methodist Church of Eurasia, as a church of the Lord Jesus Christ, is called to bring peace. With pain in our heart, we witness the deteriorating relations between the peoples of Ukraine and Russia. This is expressed in the cooling of relationships and breaking of bonds. Moreover, the believers…