SPbCU Team Returns from Tajikistan
Question: What was the purpose of this trip?
A.I. Negrov's reply: Our goal was to help Tajikistan Christian communities in provide short-term Christian camps for children and adolescents.
Q: Besides you, who else was involved in this project?
A: SPbCU staff-members Nadezhda Malchikova and Svetlana Kirichenko, and students Daler
Raxmet-Zadeh and Yuri Vervay. Two students from Kishinev Theological-Pedogogical Institute
also participated.
Q: How many children came to the camps in which you took part?
A: More than 150 children and adolescents came and got to know about
Jesus Christ.
Q: How was money provided to organize this project?
A: Funds were donated by local Christian churches in St Petersburg. Two overseas missions offered
contributions: Light for the Peoples and World Share. A certain amount of money was also allocated by SPbCU.
Q: What exactly did you yourself do in Tajikistan?
A: I conducted seminars on Christian leadership in local churches in Dushanbe and Leninabad.
Q: Did this trip achieve its objectives?
A: I think so. Local churches expressed their gratitude for the training of Sunday School teachers.
Our team also received thanks for their assistance in providing the Christian camps.
Q: What are the prospects for further cooperation in SPbCU's education programs?
A: We reached a tentative agreement on the organization of distance learning programs for leaders of churches and Christian organizations in Tajikistan.
