1992 - To Russia With God's Love
Video from 1992 with host Jack Bowen of KOCO Channel 5 documents the travel of St. Luke's United Methodist Church in Oklahoma City to Ulyanovsk, Russia.
Protection of the Mother of God - Cathedral Feast Day 10.14.2019
ВЛАДИВОСТОК. ИНВЕСТИРУЙТЕ В ОБУЧЕНИЕ - VLADIVOSTOK. INVEST IN EDUCATION
ОБЪЕДИНЕННАЯ МЕТОДИСТСКАЯ ЦЕРКОВЬ ЕВРАЗИИ. ОКТЯБРЬ 2013
UNITED METHODIST CHURCH IN EURASIA. OCTOBER 2013
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Militant Atheism: Russian Orthodox Christian Pastors Arrested by the Cheka
This video footage delineates two priests being arrested by the Cheka after the October Revolution, under the state militant atheism of the USSR. According to Harold J. Berman, a Harvard specialist in Soviet law, militant atheism was the official religion of the Soviet Union and the Communist Party was analagous to an established church. The goal of the Soviet Union was the liquidation of religion and the means to achieve this goal included the destruction of churches, mosques, synagogues, mandirs, madrasahs, religious monuments, as well the mass deportation to Siberia of believers of different religions. Under the Soviet doctrine of separation of church and state, detailed in the Constitution of the Soviet Union, churches in the Soviet Union were forbidden to give to the poor or carry on educational activities. They could not publish literature since all publishing was done by state agencies, although after World War II the Russian Orthodox Church was given the right to publish church calendars, a very limited number of Bibles, and a monthly journal in a limited number of copies. Churches were forbidden to hold any special meetings for children, youth or women, or any general meetings for religious study or recreation, or to open libraries or keep any books other than those necessary for the performance of worship services. Furthermore, under militant atheist policies, Church property was expropriated. Moreover, not only was religion banned from the school and university system, but pupils were to be indoctrinated with atheism and antireligious teachings. For example, schoolchildren were asked to convert family members to atheism and memorize antireligious rhymes, songs, and catechisms, while university students who declined to propagate atheism lost their scholarships and were expelled from universities. Severe criminal penalties were imposed for violation of these rules. By the 1960s, with the fourth Soviet anti-religious campaign underway, half of the amount of Russian Orthodox churches were closed, along with five out of the eight seminaries. In addition, several other Christian denominations were brought to extinction, including the Baptist Church, Methodist Church, Evangelical Christian Church, and the Evangelical Lutheran Church. Before the Russian Revolution, there were more than fifty thousand Russian Orthodox clergymen, by 1939, there were no more than three to four hundred left. In the year 1922 alone, under the militant atheistic system, 2691 secular priests, 1962 monks and 3447 nuns were martyred for their faith. According to Rudolph Joseph Rummel, professor emeritus of political science at the University of Hawaii, 61,000,000 people were killed under the Communism of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Due to the militant atheistic campaigns against Judaism, the religion was inaccessible to its followers; most Soviet Jews focused on a national identity, which fueled a mass dissident movement. Marxist-Leninist militant atheism resulted in the administrative elimination of the clergy, the housing of atheist museums where churches had once stood, the sending of many religious people to prisons and concentration camps, a continuous stream of propaganda, and the imposing of atheism through education (and forced re-education through torture at various prisons). Specifically, by 1941, 40,000 Christian churches and 25,000 Muslim mosques had been closed down and converted into schools, cinemas, clubs, warehouses and grain stores, or Museums of Scientific Atheism.
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RAMA Needs Your Help
RAMA worked hard for the last 10 years to build a series of programs that help patients in Russia and the USA to get quality care. For the last 5 years we ran medical missions to several Russian cities that saved hundreds of lives. We plan to do even more in 2013. Multiple medical missions are scheduled and are being developed for Kemerovo, Leninsk-Kuznetsky, Yaroslavl, Tomsk, Vladivostok, St.Petersburg, Astana, Kazakhstan ...plus more.
We also run an extensive Observership Program for doctors from Russia and many other countries. This program helps them to raise their level of expertise and to understand the American medical system.
RAMA has many other projects and programs (you can find more information on its web site and Facebook pages). They are all oriented towards medical education, clinical work, research and improvements in healthcare.
New American Church (Russian Missionaries in USA)
NAC Worship Dec 10, 2017
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Данный благотворительный концерт был проведен в честь Международного дня людей с ограниченными возможностями. Московская Объединенная Методистская Церковь, Служение РАДУГА. umc-raduga.ru
St. Luke's OKC-Russia Mission Trip
Since 1992, St. Luke’s has partnered with people in Ulyanovsk, Russia to share Christ’s love, grow in our faith, and serve those in need.
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Maria Spring Piano recital 2019
Postludium from Winterreigen, Op. 13
Story Miller's Harlan City Pipe Organ Tour-Harlan Methodist Church
Harlan Methodist Church history and interviews.
Sunday Church Service, July 30, 2017
Church worship from the First United Methodist Church of Fulton, New York. Visit our website at fultonfirst.org
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Ukrainian worship service.
Mara Christian School (Malaysia) Ra Hla 08
Worship on Canada Day
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Worship Service, January 5, 2020 | Epiphany
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What's in Pelenta's Forrest(ep.27)Russia offers free land
Show Topics-Russia offers free land to all residents,China competes with Walt Disney and open Wanda Land,North Korea and more....
7 Churches of Asia tour 2016 - Worship in Turkey House of Prayer
Worship Set in the House of Prayer in Istanbul, Turkey
Eurasia Women's Leadership Training | 2018
1. Theme
Women who lead history with a calling
2. Date and Place
March 26-28, 2018
Khabarovsk, Russia
3. Content of the training
Opening and Closing Worship with the Lord’s Supper
Bible Study (Women and Calling & Women and Mission History)
Workshop (Children's Ministry, Elderly Ministry, Fundraising, and Women and Ministry)
Praise and Worship
UMW Mission & History
4. Participants
49 UMC women from Vladivostok, Siberia, Sakhalin, and Kamchatka peninsula
5. Host Organization
Eurasia United Methodist Church
6. Partnering Organizations
Scranton Women’s Leadership Center (SWLC)
Korean-American United Methodist Women (KUMW)
Junction Church News Leicester: 30th July - 5th August 2017
The Junction Church is one church in two locations. We meet on Sunday mornings at 10:45am in the university town of Loughborough. We meet on Sunday nights at 5pm in the city of Leicester. For all the details, visit
Methodism | Wikipedia audio article
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Methodism (also known as the Methodist movement) is a group of historically related denominations of Protestant Christianity which derive their inspiration from the life and teachings of John Wesley. George Whitefield and John's brother Charles Wesley were also significant early leaders in the movement. It originated as a revival movement within the 18th-century Church of England and became a separate denomination after Wesley's death. The movement spread throughout the British Empire, the United States, and beyond because of vigorous missionary work, today claiming approximately 80 million adherents worldwide.Wesley's theology focused on sanctification and the effect of faith on the character of a Christian. Distinguishing Methodist doctrines include the new birth, an assurance of salvation, imparted righteousness, the possibility of perfection in love, the works of piety, and the primacy of Scripture. Most Methodists teach that Jesus Christ, the Son of God, died for all of humanity and that salvation is available for all; in theology, this view is known as Arminianism. This teaching rejects the Calvinist position that God has pre-ordained the salvation of a select group of people. However, Whitefield and several other early leaders of the movement were considered Calvinistic Methodists and held to the Calvinist position. Methodism emphasises charity and support for the sick, the poor, and the afflicted through the works of mercy. These ideals are put into practice by the establishment of hospitals, orphanages, soup kitchens, and schools to follow Christ's command to spread the gospel and serve all people.The movement has a wide variety of forms of worship, ranging from high church to low church in liturgical usage. Denominations that descend from the British Methodist tradition are generally less ritualistic, while American Methodism is more so, the United Methodist Church in particular. Methodism is known for its rich musical tradition, and Charles Wesley was instrumental in writing much of the hymnody of the Methodist Church.Early Methodists were drawn from all levels of society, including the aristocracy, but the Methodist preachers took the message to labourers and criminals who tended to be left outside organised religion at that time. In Britain, the Methodist Church had a major effect in the early decades of the developing working class (1760–1820). In the United States, it became the religion of many slaves who later formed black churches in the Methodist tradition.