There is hardly a human need stronger than the need to belong.  We were created this way.  Every one of us came out of a womb screaming for warmth and companionship.  Everyone knows this feeling because everyone has had the same experience once – being so close that our mother’s heartbeat was a constant presence.

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Christmas will be here sooner than you think!  Children’s ministries are among the most fruitful outreaches across the CIS.  We are now busily engaged in follow-up ministries from summer camps and conducting further ministry with our campers and their caregivers.  I ask you to keep praying that the Lord will continue to use us in

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His divine power has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness, through the true knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and excellence.  For by these He has granted to us His precious and magnificent promises. (2 Peter 1:3-4). God’s Word is full of promises that reassure us of His

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By Veniamin Makarov, Andreapol On May 18th at exactly 10 am, I received a call from my brother in the Lord, Nikolai from the village of Selishche.  He asked if I could come with him to visit Mikhail; a parishioner who was becoming weaker each day.  Nikolai had just spent hours on his tractor plowing

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We exist to labor with the Body of Christ to fulfill the Great Commission (Matthew 28:16-20) I share with you a sobering reality to contemplate.  There is a new Anti-Missionary Law in Russia.  As written, it could be used to shut down virtually all evangelical church ministries outside of the walls of a registered church

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“For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven”. Ecclesiastes 3:1 Everything has a season.  It is God’s way.  Summer is my favorite time of year.  Longer days and warmer weather have come at last !  To me, Summer is a time for vacation from school for the kids and

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