Russian Spiritual Revival Train Unites City and Village

Pravoslavie ^ | 10/13/17

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The 22nd social-charitable and spiritual educational campaign of the train “For the Spiritual Revival of Russia” was launched on Wednesday at the station in Novosibirsk, Russia, reports the Novosibirsk Diocese.

This year, the event is dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the central Russian Novosibirsk Province. The more than 200 participants on the train will cover 19 regions throughout the Province.

Missionaries, priests, artists, social workers, doctors, and educational and cultural figures gathered at the train station, accompanied by Metropolitan Tikhon of Novosibirsk and Berdsk, the Deputy Governor of the Novosibirsk Province Alexander Petrovich Titkov, and the Deputy Head of the Novosibirsk railroad George Borisovich Manakov.

Following the moleben for travelers, Met. Tikhon addressed the participants in the missionary activity with a parting word: “You will bring the joy of the holiday—the jubilee of the province to the villagers, and grant spiritual, social, and medical aid, and educational activities. The villagers await you and are preparing a warm reception.”

“This campaign,” dedicated to helping villagers and supporting the residents of the Siberian hinterlands, “makes us a single people, connecting the city and the village,” the bishop added.

“When we talk about the spiritual rebirth of Russia, we understand that it is not just a call to our citizens and compatriots to return to our historical spiritual roots, but it is also a painstaking collaborative work to daily bear the concrete spiritual rebirth of our Novosibirsk Province,” Deputy Governor Titkov stated in his welcoming speech.

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God bless them! Pray for their success. Apparently, there are no shy, retiring, defeated Christians in the former atheist USSR. We here in America can learn from real adversity because that is what we are going to face in the future, and we will deserve it, Lord willing.

The African Christians are much of the same mind as their brothers in Russia. They face tribulation for their faith in Christ but their belief is strengthened by it.