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