A preacher, who shall we say was “humor impaired,” attended a conference to help encourage and better equip pastors for their ministry. Among the speakers were many well known and dynamic speakers.
One such boldly approached the pulpit and, gathering the entire crowd’s attention, said, “The best years of my life were spent in the arms of a woman that wasn’t my wife!” The crowd was shocked! He followed up by saying, “And that woman was my mother!” - The crowd burst into laughter and delivered the rest of his talk, which went over quite well. (read more…)

One Sunday morning, the pastor noticed little Alex was staring up at the large plaque that hung in the foyer of the church. The plaque was covered with names, and small American flags were mounted on either side of it. The seven-year-old had been staring at the plaque for some time, so the pastor walked up, stood beside him and said quietly, “Good morning, Alex.” (read more…)

A preacher’s little boy inquired, “Daddy, I notice every Sunday morning when you first come out to preach, you sit up on the platform and bow your head. What are you doing?”
The father explained, “I’m asking the Lord to give me a good sermon.”

The little boy said, “Why don’t He?”

Youth camp is over and we are so exited about several people that got saved and more then 40 church teens refreshed and filled with love and Holy Spirit during this wonderful time. (read more…)

We are very happy to announce that Andrey Vdovin and Masha Boiko just got married. These great people were dating for almost 5 years and eventually new family is started. Glory to Jesus!

A drunk man who smelled like beer sat down on a subway seat next to a priest. The man’s tie was stained, his face was plastered with red lipstick, and a half empty bottle of gin was sticking out of his torn coat pocket. He opened his newspaper and began reading.

After a few minutes the man turned to the priest and asked, “Father, what causes arthritis?”

“My Son, it’s caused by loose living, being with cheap, wicked women, too much alcohol, a contempt for your fellow man, sleeping around with prostitutes and lack of baths.”

“Well, I’ll be damned,” the drunk muttered, returning to his paper.

The priest, thinking about what he had said, nudged the man and apologized.
“I’m very sorry. I didn’t mean to come on so strong. How long have you had arthritis?”

“I don’t have it, Father. I was just reading here that the Pope has it.”

Heavenly Father, I thank You, for giving me my grand father. He was such a Godly man. When the time will come, I want to die just like him. He just peacefully fell a sleep, and never woke up again, went to be with you in such a peace!

And I do not want to be like those people that were in his car with him on the highway when it happened screaming in fear and horrified.

(Translated by Roman Gorlov)

During the civil war in America, one man had a son, who went to the war with Union Army. Father was a banker. Even though he did not hinder his son to join the army he was very much grieved.

To find some peace in his heart he started to help every young soldier in uniform he met. Every time he saw a soldier his heart would start to burn about his own son. (read more…)

The SON is the key!

A wealthy man and his son loved to collect rare works of art. They had everything in their collection, from Picasso to Raphael. They would often sit together and admire the great works of art. When the Viet Nam conflict broke out, the son went to war. He was very courageous and died in battle while rescuing another soldier. The father was notified and grieved deeply for his only son. (read more…)

OMON PERPLEXED; “EMMANUEL” PASTOR CONDUCTS NEGOTIATIONS
Portal-credo.ru, 2 June 2005
The picket is continuing that is being conducted by Pentecostals of the “Emmanuel” church on Tver Square across from Moscow city hall, demanding the return of land allocated for construction of a church. About fifty members of “Emmanuel” church are standing with placards and chanting: “Bureaucrats! Return our land,” according to reports from the press secretary of the church, Yury Popov. He reports that police officers from the Department of Internal Affairs of the “Tver” district are located nearby. At around 1:00 p.m. a bus with OMON special forces arrived.

The police tried to prevent the picketing with a photocopy of some document and they demanded that the picket be stopped, to which they responded that the paper that was presented had no legal force since the organizers of the demonstration had still received no official notification about moving the place of conducting the picket, and they continued the demonstration. The OMON troops joined the investigation and began demanding that the picket cease within twenty minutes. Otherwise they threatened to fill the bus with picketers. They also tried to explain to them that the picket was being conducted on legal bases. Then the OMON troops demanded that somebody from the mayor’s office come out to the square and resolve the dispute.

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LWCC was registered in 1999. Grace of God is abundantly working in the lives of many people through the ministry of the church. During the last 5 years many things have been changed and the church went trough many difficult times. If you know the situation in Russian Far-East then you can fully understand how hard things can go here. By the grace of God and faithfulness of the people who were close to us during these years we have break through. Praise be to God for all of you who were praying with us for the ministry in Vladivostok. May mighty God bless you. Thank you for visiting our Web Site!

We just started to change the way our webpage works. You can still see the old webpage at www.primorye.com/eng
I a few days or weeks we will post all kinds of information about Christianity in Primorye, Russia. If you are interested please you are welcome to come and check for updates. This site will be dedicated to describe life Russian Christian churches and missions, espectually those that can not afford to have a wbsite yet. Please pray for our work and keep visiting our website this will be a great encouragement for us.

Love you in th Lord Jesus Christ

LWCC team