On July 12, the Word of Life Baptist Church had a celebration service during which the office of the head pastor passed from David Khadzhiyev to Dmitriy Kruts. For such occasions, the American churches has a special church service called “Pastoral Installation Service”.
On July 18, the Slavic Evangelical Baptist Church in Montebello held a pastors’ meeting of the southern region. It was attended by the representatives of the six churches located in the span of the San Diego region until Los Angeles.
On July 18, the Slavic Evangelical Baptist Church in Anaheim, had a joyful occasion: ordination of a young minister, Andrey Stebakhov for the deacon ministry.
PCSBA’s June newsletter is available here: in English | in Russian.
On June 26th, there was another ZOOM meeting of the Association’s departments leaders. This is not the first meeting that took place in this format and it appears that the ZOOM meetings are becoming a new norm for everyone. During the meeting, the ministry leaders presented their reports. Although many of the planned conferences and…
As the questions about the upcoming convention are beginning to trickle in, we want to inform you that the president of the Association and the committee are in constant communication about this issue. For now, it is unclear whether the government will allow big gatherings in October. Even if we invite only the church delegates,…
There was a meeting of the chairmen of the Ukrainian and Slavic associations of the U.S., and the organizers of the Missionary Congress of 2021. Did you notice the change of the year: instead of “2020”, there is a new number “2021”? This is due to the limitations to gatherings of large events in California…
The store is open for business and there is a lot of work to be done but not many people who are willing to do it. There is a great need for volunteers. Pavel Tsvirinko who is the general manager of the store is asking all of us to respond and come for some physical…
While I was in West Sacramento on June 15th, I visited the Word to Russia Mission. The ministry of this mission to the Slavic community began in 1972 when many of us were still behind the “iron curtain” and with reverential care tuned in to short frequency wavelength broadcast from overseas just to hear the…
Three months of quarantine have passed so quickly. Slowly, doors of the churches are beginning to open up…however, this process is not that simple and very lengthy. Larges churches of the Association have significantly more difficulties because the demands of the governing authorities make the large gatherings impossible at the church buildings. The “smaller” churches…
