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Russian Slavic Churches in America

It has been a tremendous joy talking to Russian pastors and leaders from all over the world.  Giving my Slavic background, I was able to understand the problem's Slavic community in the states experiencing now.  That was a sobering and confident reality check for me personally.  I have been born in Russia and immigrate to the states when I was eight years old.   When I was twenty or twenty one, I experienced a desire to read and study the bible.  Inevitably, that lead me to serve in Slavic Baptist church that I visited.  I grew up in Russian church's; I got saved in Russian church; I married in Russian church; I grew spiritually in Russian church.  No need to say more on my ties to Russian church.  Writing this post personally is not an intellectual approach reacting to the problem that Russian churches face today, but a loving and a prayerful heart concern.  What do Slavic Russian Christian communities experiencing in the states now? Well, the sobering moment comes from