One soul, a sister in the faith of Jesus, was baptized in Russia on May 28, 2022, in the city of Cheboksary, the capital city of Chuvashia, Russia, and a port on Volga River, while two more souls, a sister and a brother in the faith of Jesus, were baptized in Finland during the Christian conference held there between August 12 and 14, 2022, Pastor Vladimire Marinov who preformed the baptisms announced via Facebook. The baptism in Russia was part of the missionary trips Pastor Vladimire undertook in this country from May 8, 2022, to July 17, 2022. In Ryazan, home of Russian headquarters of IMS and both largest city and administrative center of Ryazan Oblast located on the high right bank of the Oka River, about 180 km south-east of Moscow, a Christian conference was held from July 15 to July 16, 2022.
Earlier, on June 11, 2022, the dedication of the new church building, a newly purchased flat, was held in Anzhero-Sudzhensk, a town in the Kuznetsk Basin in Kemerovo Oblast, Russia, located to the north of the oblast’s administrative center of Kemerovo and to the east of the Tom River, on the route of the Trans-Siberian Railway.
In addition, after the Christian conference in Ryazan, Pastor Vladimire Marinov continued his missionary trip by travel to Kazakhstan, where, after meetings with interested souls in the cities of Almaty and Taraz and expected new baptisms in the next year by God’s grace in both Russia and Kazakhstan, he departed to Finland and arrived there on August 1, 2022. Furthermore, there were new interested souls in Finland, Pastor Vladimire Marinov confirmed.
Just before one of the baptisms in Finland; a photo from the personal archive of Pastor Vladimire Marinov on Facebook.
Written by Margarit Zhekov
