Tirelessly, every Saturday and Sunday in a new place, a team of local missionaries, led by Pastor Vasily Khripunov, preaches the Gospel on the streets of different cities in California, holding meetings in local houses of prayer or missionary points. The past Saturday and Sunday, November 18 and 19, were the same for them.
On October 11, 2023, Grace Family Church in Sacramento hosted a Mission Reunion, which is a friendly get-together of missionaries from different countries. Over 100 people from different cities were able to attend.
Our Association has many talented people! One of them is Pavel Lvutin who is a pastor at the Word of Truth Church. He wrote five books some of which are published and can be found on Amazon. For a short summary for each book and where each one of them can be found, visit this…
While evaluating the results of the past convention, we can say that the 85th convention has a special place in the Association’s history. We celebrated the 95th anniversary of the Association. What seems to be such a distant past, in 1928, the first convention of the Slavic immigrants on the West Coast took place in…
Dear brothers and sisters in Christ! Happy Thanksgiving! «In everything give thanks; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus. » 1Thess. 5.18
PCSBA’s October 2023 newsletter is available here: in Russian | in English.
«Old Fashioned Country Festival» was a huge event that was organized by the Cornerstone Church in Sacramento on October 15. The premises of the church were decorated in old West style, and many guests dressed for the occasion. Over 500 people visited this event.
On September 19-20, there was a pastors’ retreat near Athens. Close to 80 people were able to attend. Joseph Sheremet and the missionary ministry of PCSBA had an idea of such retreats which later became a regular annual event.
On September 1-4, youth ministry United hosted a camp with a theme of “Created in The Image of God”. Nine churches from northern California were able to motivate their youth to attend this retreat. As a result, over 600 people were able to come. The main speaker was Pastor Andrey Sava from Fresno, CA.
What now seems like such a long time ago, the first PCSBA’s convention took place on October 12-14, 1928. It was there that there was a decision made to create a Union of Slavic Baptist churches. The first committee was also selected there with Nikolay Radionov as a committee’s leader.
