Christian Social & Cultural Alliance

2013

 

April 16, 2013

 

At the State Museum - Humanitarian Center "Overcoming",  Nikolai Ostrovsky hosted a concert of vocal and instrumental ensemble "Celebration." All members of the ensemble were blind individuals from a special (correctional) secondary school - boarding school № 1 Moscow. We prepared and presented gifts to the children and teachers after the concert.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

June 9, 2012

 

Seven years ago, with God's help, we helped Vladimir Belikov do surgery on his left eye. The operation was very complex and lasted for 2 hours. Only through fervent prayer of the church was the surgery successful and he was able to see with one eye by about 40%. Vladimir now needs surgery on his right eye, which will be held in late June at the Department of Experimental Eye Surgery Institute in Moscow. The surgery will be even more difficult than the first but he, along with the church, believes in God's help. Vladimir, like many of our blind, believed, received Holy baptism and is now a member of the church "Insight." Currently, neither the church nor Vladimir Belikov have sufficient means to pay for the surgery, which costs approximately $1,500, including stay in the hospital. However, we believe that the Lord will provide us with all the things necessary to do the surgery. We ask all of our friends to join us in prayer for the success of the surgery. And also, if you have the opportunity, you can help Vladimir by donating funds towards his surgery.

 

 

 

February 15, 2012

 

In our office, sponsored by the WHO, we celebrated Candlemas. Every Wednesday we hold meetings for the blind, but this Wednesday was special. The blind individuals were able to meet new friends and communicate with old friends. The musical group that performed was from the Baptist church in Kuzminkah. Their soulful singing created a reverent atmosphere in which listeners were able to listen to spiritual truths. They learned about the true biblical sense of celebration; about how there was a meeting with the God of Simeon and the rightous prophetess Anna, and that such an encounter with God begins the Christian life of every believer. At such meetings with the blind and disabled, we never arrive empty-handed, knowing how hard these people live with their disabilities. This time we have prepared special gifts, thanks to our generous friends. One Christian sister who worked in the hosiery business, learned about our ministry and sent us a package with socks. And our fellow beekeepers of the Samara region sold us, at a discounted price, honey. Because of this, we were able to give each blind and disabled person a jar of honey and a pair of socks.

 

 

 

 

May 25, 2011

 

A charity event in the Society for the Blind at the last meeting before the summer break. In the summer, our members leave for medical treatment to sanatoriums and resorts. We wanted them to spend the summer with a positive attitude, so we prepared for them a concert of sacred music and gave gifts to the members of the Society for the Blind.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

December 15, 2010 has become a traditional pre-Christmas meeting with members of the Society for the Blind - Yuzhnoportovaya. Our disabled members were deeply moved by a concert of sacred music, which was organized by our friends from church and guests from the United States.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

April 17, 2010

 

A concert at the State Museum and humanitarian center "Overcoming". N. Ostrovsky was a charity concert called "Teacher and student", which was attended by visually impaired teachers Tatiana Shustova and Sergey Sanatarov and their blind students: sisters Victoria and Valerie Artemov, Anna Dvoryanchikova, Lyubov Yarohovich, Alice Kalina and Alexander Trishkin. Our organization prepared and handed out gifts to the children and teachers after the concert.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

December 2008

 

We held an evangelistic Christmas party for members of the Society for the Blind in Yuzhnoportovaya with a Christian music group led by Elena Maiorova, a member of the Writers' Union of Leo Boleslavsky and Pastor Alexander Karakuts.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

August 2008

 

The baptism of Stepan Ivanovich Belsky and Maria Petrovna Murlenkovoy.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

May 2008

 

We acquired a wheelchair with an electric drive for Stepan Ivanovich Belsky who, due to diabetes, has not only become visually impaired (sees with one eye), but also lost two legs. He lives on the 12th floor and almost never goes outside. Recently, Stepan's wife died and he is all alone in their apartment. We have long had a desire to give him a wheelchair with an electric drive, because he, moreover, has a sore right arm and moves around the apartment with great difficulty in a normal wheelchair.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

May 2008

 

With our organization's assistance, Konstantin Menshikov's mother was able to have surgery. Konstantin's own vision is only 1%, and, according to doctors, no medicine can help him with his illness. His mother was also blind. We decided to try and help his mother so we invited her to Moscow (she lives in Vishny Volochyok) for examination in the Sechenov Institute at the Department of Experimental Surgery of the eyes. We strongly prayed for doctors and for this operation and God did a miracle! The operation was successful: a mother can now see her son, Konstantin. There were a lot of happy tears when a blind son and his now-seeing mother testified about their experiences in our church.

 

 

 

 

 

 

May 2008

 

We held a concert in a suburban boarding house for the blind. The concert included spiritual songs performed by Alexander Karakuts and poetry performed by a member of the Writers' Union of Leo Boleslavsky and also Helen Kogan who is blind.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

April 2008

 

We prepared food and Easter gifts for our members.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

January 2008

 

We held an evangelistic Christmas party for all the members of the Society for the Blind. For every visitor, we prepared gifts: cakes, tape and CDs with a set of spiritual audio tapes. We also visited all our children who do not leave their apartments, and congratulated them and gave them Christmas presents.