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Superintendent Victor Semyonovich Ryaguzov from the Preobrazhenie" (Transformation) congregation in Samara on the Volga wanted to do the Baptist preachers of Russia a good deed. “We do a lot for young people, we hold summer camps and spiritual conferences und much more,” he explains. “But we do little to train our new preachers.” |
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Diana Kondratyeva sees the road to freedom not in the struggle for women's rights, but rather in prayer. Director of the Women's Department for the “Russian Union of Evangelical Christians-Baptists” in Moscow, her thinking is sometimes highly conventional. |
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At the vital conference of 150 representatives of church unions within the Baptist tradition in Moscow on 16 February 2007, Yuri Sipko (Moscow), President of the Russian Union of Evangelical Christians-Baptists (RUECB), had proclaimed a “Year of Forgiveness”. On 4 December, 50 representatives gathered in the RUECB´s central offices in Moscow at the invitation of the “Public Council” (Obshestvenii Soviet) to review progress during the past year. |
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In a meeting between the „Russian Union of Evangelical Christians-Baptists“ (RUECB) and Germany’s „Federation of Evangelical Free Churches“ (BEFG) in Elstal near Berlin on 3 December an obvious truth was repeated: Germans and Russians have differing strengths. Russians think in the shorter term: They welcome spontaneity, improvisation and creativity. |
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