StreetCry
Here is some news from our church, Street Cry, about one of our members – Arkady Ledkov (photo on left) has been part of our church, ministry and staff for a number of years. Several months ago we sent him out with the laying on of hands to reach the people of his ancestry. Arkady [...]
Our church in St. Petersburg started (and continues) as a ministry to drug addicts and prostitutes. In addition to street evangelism, city-wide worship services and other ministries, StreetCry has a two year School of Ministry. Kostya is 26, currently in the second year of the program and is one of the leading evangelists in our [...]
At the risk of offending some people by leaving them off, I’ll make a stab at giving a Russian ‘cast of characters’ to help minimize confusion – Mike Cantrell: uhmmmm, me Olga Cantrell: my wife, we married in 2001. She is the BEST! Tanya Yaskevich: Olga’s mother Alla Pavetic: Olga’s twin sister who now lives [...]
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Each year our church in St. Petersburg, StreetCry, hosts a Christmas dinner for drug rehabilitation centers and homeless people. Orthodox Christmas in Russia is on January 7th. Here’s a report from Olga about the dinner: There were more than 300 people at the dinner from about ten rehab centers. One rehab center came all the [...]
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In August, at Elama we hosted more church groups and camps, and the last of our summer teams have returned home after a very successful season of ministry. Above at Elama, Sergei Tovstapet and Olga Barzhura baptize Leanna, one of the young ladies from Street Cry’s rehab center. Sergei and the girls from the rehab [...]
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