Story number 5 for 16 Sep 2002

(Russia)–And, more than one million people celebrated Moscow’s 855th birthday this month. As part of the festivities, the Baptist World Alliance dedicated the new building of the Moscow Theological Seminary of the Union of Evangelical-Christian Baptists of Russia on Sunday, September 1rst. The purpose of the institution is to provide ministers and missionaries for more than 30-thousand towns and villages in Russia that have no church or Christian witness. Please pray that the ministry will continue to grow.