Coming up!! - Youth Conference

This spring, Jesus Embassy is heading North-west to attend an exciting youth conference tittled "Hearts Ablaze" in the ancient city of Smolensk. We would not only be attending this evangelical meeting as guests but would be very much involved in the programs.

Theme: HEARTS ABLAZE (evangelical)
location: Smolensk city , Russia
Date: 1st - 3rd may
Host: the Holy Trinity Church
Transport : 2000 rubbles
food & lodgings will be provided

Click here to view the conference schedule

For more information contact
Dennis - 89173324196 , den@wassup.su
kelvin - 8927539729

Smolensk

Smolensk is a city in western Russia, located on the Dnieper River, the administrative centre of Smolensk Oblast. Its population was estimated as 351,100. Situated 360 km west-southwest of Moscow, this walled city was destroyed several times throughout its long history since it was on the invasion routes of both Napoleon and Hitler. Today, Smolensk is noted for electronics, textiles, and food processing. Smolensk is among the oldest of Russian cities. The first recorded mention of the city was 863 AD, two years after the founding of ancient Russia. According to Russian Primary Chronicle, Smolensk was the capital of the Slavic Krivichs tribe in 882 when Oleg took it in passing from Novgorod to Kiev. Due to its central position amid Russian lands, the city developed rapidly. By the end of the 12th century the princedom was one of the strongest in Eastern Europe, so that Smolensk dynasty frequently controlled the “Kievan” throne. Numerous churches were built in the city at that time, including the church of Sts Peter and Paul (1146, reconstructed to its presumed original appearance after WWII) and church of St John the Baptist (1180, also partly rebuilt). The most remarkable church in the city is called Svirskaya (1197, still standing); it was admired by contemporaries as the most beautiful structure to the east of Kiev.

WASSUP! #10 is out!

Dear friends, by the grace of God we have released the
latest issue of the Wassup!Newsletter (volume #10). It is a great privilege
for us to bring the Good News to international students in Russia.
We hope you guys, enjoy reading it as much as we enjoyed producing it

The HOT topics in this volume are:
1) Exposing the truth on pornography by Gene McConnell
2) Shout-out - feedback from our faithful readers
3) Real Life Story "Ticket 2 Russia: much freedom, little
supervision, a lot of distractions" by Dalvin
4) Breaking YouthNews from Volgo and Moscow
5) e-wisdom
6) Wassup!Answers: "Q #1 - The Bible says that it is God's will for
everything. Then is it His will for the devil too?", "Q#2 - How not
to sin in a modern world?" Answers provided by Pastor Paul Ellis (USA)
7) Last-page Story "The File Room" by Harris Joshua

Dennis Katkov
and Wassup! Crew
Volgograd

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It is Jesus that you seek when you dream of happiness; he is waiting for you when nothing else you find satisfies you; he is the beauty to which you are so attracted; it is he who provokes you with that thirst for fullness that will not let you settle for compromise; it is he who urges you to shed the masks of a false life; it is he who reads in your hearts your most genuine choices, the choices that others try to stifle. It is Jesus who stirs in you the desire to do something great with your lives, the will to follow an ideal, the refusal to allow yourselves to be ground down by mediocrity, the courage to commit yourselves humbly and patiently to improving yourselves and society, making the world more human and more fraternal. - Pope John Paul II, World Youth Day 2000.