Missionary Conference Logos Canada took place at St. Petersburg Christian University May 20-24
At the beginning the Rector of SPbCU A. Negrov greeted the participants.
On the first day, Johan Matthias (Germany) presented a report about World Mission of the Church and Ruvum Voloshin presented report about evangelism inside of the Church. After that Umar Kazichodjoev (Kyrgyzstan), Yrij Stoliarchuk (Lithuania) and Pavel Ivanenko (Russia) shared their experiences in enagelism.
During evening time Valentin Shainov ( Kyrgyztan), Sergey Moscalenko (Ukraine), Evgeny Tretjak, Sergei Abramov shared their personal testimonies.
The second day, Johan Matthias shared his vision about leadership in the Church in the spirit of the New Testament and the theme "Lessons of Christian Leadership" was presented by Mikhail Brizin . After that, there was a round table discussion with moderators from Russia (Andrey Protasov) and Ukraine (Oleg Nikitin),
The evening time was set aside for personal testimonies by Aida Uzakobaeva from Kyrgyzstan, Ivan Suvorov and Aleksey Galzev from Russia, Pavel Rudenko and Sergei Burkut from Ukraine.
On the third day, there was a presentation from Herb and Maureen Klassen (Canada) "Following Jesus on the all ways..." and Johan Matthias led a discussion about the meaning of this conference for the participants.
During the time of conference the participants visited Hermitage and had time for personal meetings and discussions on the small groups.
Six alumni form SPbCU gave presentations at the conference: Jury Stoliarchuk, Pavel Ivanenko, Nadia and Pavel Voroviev, Oleg Nikitin and Mikhail Brizin.
The members of the board of SPbCU took care about the agenda of this conference as well: Elmer Stobbe, Mikhail Brizin and Johan Matthias.
Thanks to the Lord for the spiritual and friendly encouragement of the missionary activity on the territory of the former Soviet Union.
One of the participants of the Logos-Conference Cornelia Schmidt is writing her impressions:
"I was richly blessed. I enjoyed getting to know most of the people through their amazing testimonies of their ministries and personal lives. Every person was willing to show his or her ideas, experience, and concerns. During the discussion period everyone had opportunity to express his or her own feelings without being judged. This was exceptional and meaningful to the ladies in my group.
The reports from different parts of Russia and Ukraine were very informative and gave us a realistic view about what is really occurring at each participating church.
At the thanksgiving Celebration at the end of the Conference, I was encouraged to hear the testimony of a pastors' wife, who's Church really has grown in a large members. She asked herself:" Lord, what do I need to overcome in order to serve You better? " I wish we could all go to our churches with this kind of attitude and love people into God's Kingdom. Because of the Jesus, the Son, the Farther, and the Holy Spirit"
Revelation 5:12 "Worthy is the Lamb, who was slain, to receive power and wealth and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and praise!"