News from Europe / Eurasia


news from belarus 

YUKHOVICHI
I am sorry for not having written for a long time. In that time my husband Volodya was baptized and we are breaking bread each week regularly. We read together also. I want to thank you for all the literature. The new booklet about alcohol is really very important. My daughter is living in Riga and I so hope she will visit Bro Duncan and Sis Cindy and develop her interest in the Bible.
Sis. Iraida



news from georgia 

ABKHAZIJA
I was unable to come to the Bible School as it is almost impossible for residents of Abkhazija like myself to pass through the blockade, and it is very hard to get the documents required for us to travel. I send my greetings to all.
Bro Guram

 


news from israel 

BEER SHEVA
We are very sad that those who used to visit us now can no longer visit us, we love them and miss them because it was them who brought us to know Christ. At 81 it is very hard to do anything much but we love you all, even to take the letter to the post box is about the main sacrifice which we can make.
Bro. Viktor & Sis. Nina

I was visited recently by some visitors from England, the shame is I do not understand them as they don’t speak Russian. I so wish that you could come here again and translate for us! I ask you for your prayers for my family. I pray each day and night both to God through Jesus.
Sis. Anna

KARMIEL
We are praying for you here. We believe that soon the Sun of Righteousness will arise with healing in his wings. Our great hope is to again have fellowship together as we used to in Russian as we find a problem with the visitors we now get speaking to us in English with no translator.
Sis. Natasha

PETAH TIKVA
I am truly hoping that this year will see the return of Jesus to this land!
Bro. Vladimir



news from italy 

BARI
I have been here for a year working. I miss you all and send greetings to those brothers from England whom I met in Romania. I miss the Bible Schools we had in Romania.
Bro. Mihail

 


news from kazakhstan 
Photo: Bro. Henryk and Sis. Yevgeniya Budzialowscy, recently married in Poland.

 

ALMATY
I am looking forward to having my baby but I have been so ill here with the cold weather, flue and bronchitis etc. We are so worried about being able to clothe our baby. We are praying and reading, but are still faced by such problems.
Sis Valentina

(Note: Some clothes have been sent)

KOKSHETAU
We are very much with you and we keep praying for those poor Brothers in Iran and Pakistan.
Sis Ira and Sis Luba

 

 


news from latvia 

AIZKRAUKLE
I am sorry for not writing. It is hard for me to get out but I dream of being able to come to a meeting. I wish to very sincerely thank you all for writing to me and sending me everything, exhortations etc, which have helped and encouraged me so much. I realize my problems are so small compared to those of our Brothers in other countries.
Sis Irena

BENE
May the Angels watch over each of you every step of your lives. I was very touched to receive greetings from so many countries after my baptism. I truly feel part of you all and pray for you.
Bro. Nikolaj

PILTENE
I am grateful for the letters and spiritual support I receive from Bro Mark Greeves and from Bro Charles French from Australia. I count it a privilege to thank God for all my many blessings.
Sis. Olga

REZEKNE
I keep on reading and re-reading the books. I am talking to many people now who are interested. Please pray for my son as he has so many problems just now.
Sis. Anna

TUKUMS
I again had my pension stolen and this very much shook up my mother who is very elderly, I always look forward to the meetings here, and I wish sincerely for the Lord to be with you all.
Sis. Vaira

Photo: Meeting at Tukums

 


news from moldova 

CHISINAU
I am still getting over the loss of my husband Sergej. I spent so much money at the hospital when he was taken ill and I have such problems repaying it. Also my uncle died recently so I am being tested by God in many ways at once. I believe in the coming of the Kingdom of God very strongly now.
Sis. Tanya
 
I am so grateful that after three years being without gas, we now have gas, so I can be warm, especially as all day I have to work outside. I thank God so much for this blessing to me. Since Bro Sergej died things have been hard for us here, as we always gathered at his place.
Sis Elvira

DUBOSSARY
Things are very hard for me here. After the war we had here and the isolation policy we still have, it seems in our blocks we are surrounded by invalids, old and hungry people, it is very hard for us. My only hope is in the Kingdom of God.
Sis Tamara



news from norway 

I miss Bible Schools! I often remember the Bible Schools I attended. Soon it will be seven years since I was baptised. It’s amazing to think how God works in our lives and helps us. I pray each day – for my family, relatives and all Christadelphians. Prayers are so important. In the evenings when I put Linda to sleep I pray a long time.
Sis Helena

 

 


news from poland 

Photo: Sis Filomena, Sis Jean Field, Sis Valerie Freer and Bro Jan Byrski at Bielska Bialo, Poland.

 



news from russia 

EFREMOV

I am so sad I can’t get leave from the factory to go to the Bible School. I ask you to pray for my situation as my former wife is seeking to take the apartment away from me and I shall be without anywhere to live, please pray for me. I seek in all this to act as would Jesus and the apostle Paul.
Bro. Oleg

IRBIT
I was so, so happy to return home and learn that my dear friend Viktor Moor had been baptized. We pray for you each evening and are always hungry for news of how our dear brotherhood is getting on in all their problems.
Bro. Anatoly

JOSHKAR-OLA
I’m unable to get to the Bible School so I am not looking forward to a long time now without any fellowship from Brothers and Sisters. I am so grateful for the literature about alcoholism, I am surrounded daily by this problem and fear for my children as they live surrounded by these temptations. I eagerly read all literature sent to me.
Sis. Elena

KALACH
I continue praying and reading each day and I am much helped by all the literature sent to me which I am reading with great hunger.
Bro. Nikolaj

KAZAN
We are eagerly waiting for the Winter Bible School, I want to take my daughter Kristina with me so she can meet with the Brothers and Sisters. We love you all and are waiting for the Kingdom.
Sis. Svetlana

Things have changed very much here since the arrival of Sis Ludmila from Kazakhstan. Now we meet regularly and she teaches us so well, we feel we are a real Christadelphian ecclesia . We are so happy and grateful to her.
Bro. Viktor

We continue meeting together at Sis Ludmila’s for the breaking of bread. I so enjoy these meetings.
Bro. Andrej

I finally returned home from the Bible School, after some problems. It was truly a good school. I feel that the end will come soon, all we can do is prepare ourselves for it.
Sis Ludmila

KORKINO
I have been re-reading ‘Bible Basics for Moslems’ as I have some relatives who are Moslems who I so want to preach to. Islam is becoming a real problem for Russia now. Also I am enjoying understanding about the Orthodox church better through the articles in the Russian Gospel News. I want to understand people better so I can preach effectively to them.
Sis. Sofia

LESNOJ
Sister Anastasia is still the same, she is blind and I am doing absolutely everything in the house, the shopping etc, but I want to tell you all that I do this for her with joy. I am sorry for my long silence but I am holding to our Lord.
Bro Viktor

LIPETSK
I am much impressed by the new booklet about alcoholism, it is really necessary, but sadly here those people who most need this help refuse to come to God, who can be the only cure for it. I am in eager anticipation of coming to my first large Bible School this Winter.
Bro. Sasha

POKROVKA
I was very happy to be encouraged to give details on anyone of my family or friends who would like a copy of Bible Basics, I am sending these to you. Then I can write to them and ask for their impressions. I am very grateful of all letters of encouragement sent to me.
Sis Svetlana

RZHEV
I had a great joy recently in that I was visited by Igor and Lena and we made the breaking of bread together! They also invited me to come to their meeting in Moscow. I look back and am so grateful to God that I found out about you all from an advertisement in a newspaper, and you have become my best friends and true Brothers.
Bro. Sasha

ST. PETERSBURG
The new booklet about alcohol is really very well written and helpful, I have seen so many talented lives destroyed because of it, it is a cursed legacy from the period of Communism. I am so sorry that I couldn’t get to the Bible School this Winter. We are living here on the brink of poverty in every way.
Bro. Valerij

SARANSK
I have not visited a Bible School for two years but I am going to make every effort and sacrifice I can to come this year. I am very grateful for all the effort made for me and I pray for you all.
Bro. Nikolaj

I have just celebrated the anniversary of my baptism as I write this. I am filled with you, especially as a Brother sent me a calendar which arrived the same day. I thank God for the way His angels have worked in my life and brought me to you and to having the hope which I now have in my old age.
Sis Aleksandra

SARATOV
I so miss seeing the Brothers and Sisters at the Bible Schools and this year I want to make the effort to come. I have moved here from Kazakhstan and still face many problems with my documents. I love you all.
Sis. Raisa

SHADRINSK
With great joy I am preparing to come to the Winter Bible School, thank you for the trouble in organizing this School.
Bro. Pavel

SHANINO
I am praying day and night for various ones who have fallen into poverty or hard times, there are really so many amongst us. I muse as to why there is so much wealth in the Western world when here we are going from one poverty to another. I can’t come to the Bible School as I am sick, but there are also some suffering in my own family due to a car accident, I can only pray for them.
Sis. Tamara

SHCHYOKINO
I keep meditating upon the way that some will be told in the end, "Depart from me, I never knew you". These words are so often in my mind. I am still grieving for the loss of my wife. I wish I could do more for you all, my health is weak and I can’t even go to a Bible School at the moment, so I pray for you.
Bro. Boris

TAMBOV
I remember often my baptism in the river. I am a Christadelphian because I believe the truth and have explored the Bible widely, it is the closest I have found to the truth and I will therefore spread this truth to all I can.
Bro. Vadim

TVER
I have just spent an afternoon writing letters to you all. I am with you all. I have much enjoyed reading the new booklet about Alcoholism, this is really important for us in this area of the world. Even in the Old Testament we read in places like Isaiah 28:1 that there is great "Woe" for those who are alcoholic.
Bro. Igor

TYMSK

We have all been sick here, I also haven’t been able to write because of a broken finger. Despite this we have been breaking bread on Sundays at 11:00 as always. I am trying by all means to get to the Bible School, it will be a miracle if I can, but I pray.
Bro. Ivan

UST KATAV
I am so sorry for my long time of not writing. There is not a day that goes by where I do not have some trauma or problem, in my family, in my health which is weak, or in opposition I find at my work, where people are somehow jealous of me and there is much religious gossip. But I am God’s creation and I know that He will preserve me, and I keep praying that I will be among the sheep and not the goats when Jesus returns.
Sis. Elena

YEKATERINBURG
I am writing from here as I am now at college here. I am thinking much about
God, I am grateful for your support, and I am hoping I may be able to share something of the truth with others here.
Bro. V.

ZELENODOLSK
We are now meeting together with the Kazan ecclesia whenever we can, numbering about 15 who regularly attend with Sis Ludmila. We all so love and respect her, she is a great blessing to us and has shown us how to live as true Brothers and Sisters in Christ.
Sis. Valentina

Photo: Bro. Vladimir and Sis. Nina with an interested friend

 


news from serbia 

I am thinking still of ways to preach here. I am eagerly awaiting when Br. William will complete typing up my translation of Br. Stewart’s book Numbers and Colours in the Bible. I know an Adventist here who is a great inspiration to me, he goes out on the streets each day and seeks to talk to people and offer them literature. I will never give up my hope of having an ecclesia here.
Bro. Vladislav



news from ukraine 

KIEV
I am sincerely praying for Jesus to return this year to end all divisions between people and to bring His Kingdom.
Sis Elena

I am sorry I was unable to come to the Bible School as my mother is now critically ill. But I truly think of you and wish peace and blessing to be with all our Brothers and Sisters.
Sis Ludmila

NOVOMOSKOVSK
We are truly so sorry we can’t get to the Winter Bible School but we will think of you all and are very much with you all as we too continue our walk with you to the Kingdom.
Sis. Ludmila, Bro. Stas

NOVY TORGAI
We here would all so love to come to the winter Bible School, we are very sorry if this won’t be possible. We are living here in very poor circumstances and these Schools are the only light in our lives
Sis. Vera

POLTAVA
I make special prayers to God about all our suffering Brothers in Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan. I also pray more strongly, "May your Kingdom come".
Bro. Vladimir

We have the breaking of bread here every Sunday and I am leading the meetings apart from when we go to Kiev for the breaking of bread there. We think of you in Riga and love you all so much.
Bro. Gennady

ROVNO
I have been very ill and in hospital and it has been very hard for me to afterwards go to the village and gather food. My husband Bro Vitaly is not allowed to live where I live as I am in a woman’s hostel, but we see each other each day. We have so little money. We pray to God and we love Him. We are reading His word daily and are so longing for Jesus return.
Sis Nadia

 



news from uzbekistan 

TASHKENT
I am facing opposition from people here, but I do not fear. I realize that you are my most wonderful friends and true family. I very much love you and appreciate all you do for me.
Bro. Oleg



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