Hello everyone, hope all is well with you all. I just wanted to give a brief update regarding the most recent opportunity to secure a permanent place for the fellowship. First of all we would like to thank all of you who have been praying for our meeting with the city of Moscow last Monday, as we were seeking God’s will. What a wonderful blessing we have as children of God to know that when we ask God for His perfect will we can be at peace with what ever the outcome. Knowing the Father did not even spare His own Son for us and we can rest in Him when we bring our requests before Him, regardless of the outcome. We as believers can have such a great confidence that God sees a much bigger picture than we do here on earth. So when after less than a ten minute meeting with the City of Moscow we received a denial for granting us a use permit for a religious gathering, we knew that God had answered, and the door was closed to pursue that building. We have confidence that the Lord has a place for us and we continue to pursue it. We appreciate all of your prayers. God bless, dean
Eph 2:19-22 Now, therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God,
20 having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief cornerstone,
21 in whom the whole building, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord,
22 in whom you also are being built together for a dwelling place of God in the Spirit (NKJV)
God is doing great things in Russia. One of the many wonderful ministries going on all over this country is Russian Christian Radio. During the 1990's, Russian Christian Radio broadcast programs over the state-run radio networks, but that opportunity ended later that decade. Many people listened to the various programs and RCR received many letters in response, especially from those who live behind bars. Even though the distribution of radio programs ended over the state network, it has continued in other ways, with a special focus toward providing radio programming to prisons in Russia. This includes distribution of sermons and other programs in MP3 format, as well as via satellite. Also Russian Christian Radio, together with many other Christian missions and churches in Russia, has organized prison ministries and outreach. They have also created a network of seven Christian Centers for those prisoners who have been released back into society after serving their time behind bars. RCR has and excellent high quality magazine called "The Gospel Behind Barbed Wire" it is a magazine that is published once every two months and sent to prisoners all across Russia, Ukraine and countries of the former Soviet Union, as well as Germany and even in the United States and is available both in Russian and German.(text taken from web site) See web site Russian Christian Radio
If you will look at the blog for April the 29 “Farm life for the soul” you will find a story on my first visit to one of the 7 Russian Christian Radio Rehabilitation centers. This past week I was invited to go along with Mark, Alexey, Dima and Nodick on a road trip to visit one of the centers and to re-visit Nikoolino, the village of the Farm. There a satellite was installed to receive the Russian Christian Radio programming for the men. I believe we as a fellowship have a great opportunity to be involved with the work of RCR, as they are reaching out to those that can easily be overlooked by society.
Hello everyone! Just wanted to give you all a quick update on our efforts to find a place to meet 24/7. After looking at many possibilities over the last five months Natasha found a place that got our interest. Size, and location were our greater considerations and we believe we have found a place that would be adequate for what we want to do. We have made the first step, and now our request will go before the city of Moscow to approve or disapprove a religious organization, holding public meetings in that location. If we are approved we will enter a 10 year lease with the city of Moscow. Please pray for the situation. We are very comfortable with the response back from the city either way knowing that God’s will be done. Thank you all who have been praying for our building quest. God Bless, dean
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Last week the pastors in Moscow got together with their families for pizza and homemade salad.(this is a before photo) left to right Shasha, Kostya, Dean, Kevin(our host) and Chris.
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I had a surprise visit last week form Rob Samuelson, Rob is from England and 7 years ago he was going to school here and attended CC Sokol. Rob was single when he was here but now he is married to his lovely wife Clair. They both have amazingly "cool" accents!
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Just a little update on Boris (see previous entry). I tried to get hold of him, but he was not answering his phone, I will try again. In our conversation, he did mention that he has some problems with authorities and they might put him to prison. So, please continue to pray for Boris and his girlfriend Jenia, I did give them our current address, and they know where to find us. Thank you for your prayers! Natasha
