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