Dear English-speaking friends!
We would like on these English-language pages to do our best to supply you with as much information as possible on Russian Baptist life. This will consist mostly of press releases and a few features done by our own department, the Department for External Church Relations here in Moscow offices.
We certainly also want to be of help if you have any requests. Please feel free to send questions our way by telephone, though eMail is usually the best way. We two men in our department speak English.
We are:
Rev. Vitaly Vlasenko, Department Director
Dr. William Yoder, Media spokesperson and Laison to the English- and German-speaking community
Galina Yoder, Administrative Assistant
Our address at Russian national headquarters is:
Russian Union of Evangelical Christians-Baptists, RUECB
Department for External Church Relations
117105 Moscow
Varshavskoye Shosse 29, corpus 2
baptistrelations@yandex.ru
Tel/fax: 007-495-954-9231
General number for headquarters:
007-495-958-1336
The switchboard operators do not usually know English. Other persons at headquarters who speak English are:
Rev. Yevgeni Bakhmutski, Director of Youth Department
007-495-958-1522, or bakhmutsky@rambler.ru
Pavel Belkov, Director of Legal Department
007-495-958-1345, or bapt.un@g23.relcom.ru
Jim Overton, Missions Department
007-495-958-6025 extension 176, or mail2jim@eroam.net
Our national offices are located 800 metres north of Nagatinskaya metro station in south-central Moscow. One can travel north one station by tram, or go 10 minutes on foot. After walking below the railroad bridge and partways up the hill, turn right just after the first large building. The rather narrow road leads to the second row of houses and the gate leading to our offices. We are on 4th floor, room 408.
Russia’s Union of Evangelical Christians-Baptists consists of approximately 75.000 baptized believers in 87 church districts. They meet in roughly 1.300 local congregations and groups located between Kaliningrad in the West and Vladivostok in the East. The Union’s president is Pastor Yuri Sipko.
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