This question sparked many discussions among the churches, both among the pastors, as well as among the church members. Someone has resolved to have it, some delayed it for better times.
This is a remarkable time, during which we find ourselves in the quarantine, not that we are forced to stay home, but that while being at home, we can be active in ministry. For that we need to have only the phone and the internet.
On Saturday, May 9, there was an annual missionary training. The meeting was organized by the PCSBA’s Missionary Ministry “Power in Truth”. For the first time in history, the missionaries gathered in an online format through Zoom. The pandemic created a global crisis, but at the same time, it opened up many opportunities for effective…
Alik Shipuk, a missionary of the Association, who works with his wife in Spain, sent a letter describing how the ministry is going there. Read his letter here. The letter is in Russian only.
PCSBA’s April newsletter is available here: in Russian | in English.
On April 17, the chairmen of the associations in the U.S., as well as the missions leaders who are making the preparations of the 2020 Missionary Congress had a leaders’ meeting on ZOOM. Due to the quarantine and despite the absence of any forecasts related to the lessening of the restrictions that affect international travel,…
This question was asked, and since the quarantine has been extended, is continued to be asked by many pastors as well as members of the churches. During the Holy Thursday, some churches delivered bread and wine to all of their church members, and then came together during an online meeting to partake of the communion….
The challenges of the modern culture are part of a massive attack on Christian values as a whole, but especially on the Christian family. Recent laws on sex education, which went into effect, are a perfect example of that. There is an extensive deterioration of industrial and post-industrial society. The ideology of globalization is popularized…
How are the churches of southern California handling the quarantine? – this was the question of Olga Avetisova (further О.А.) to the head pastor of Montebello church, Valeriy Olegovich Konopelkin (V.К.)********************************************* О.А. Valeriy Olegovich! Your church is one of the farthest churches in southern California. Tell us: how you are surviving in the midst of…
Over the course of about a year, there was a dialogue about opening a very important new ministry in the association – the family ministry. After a long search, a new minister was identified to lead this ministry. Igor Zhukov is a pastor of family ministry in Slavic Evangelical Missionary Church of Orange County.
