"Building Relationships Comes First"
Our Plans
Our UMVIM slogan “Work goals matter, but building relationships come first.” As time and our friends’ schedules permit, we will visit the city and partake of the many cultural opportunities available. The city has a marvelous opera, ballet, and concert theater. These play a major part in a Russian’s life, perhaps more than such things do in an American’s life. Invite your new friends to go with you. You will build a stronger relationship with the Russians.
To inspire you to come back on an UMVIM 2005 project
team, we will visit an orphanage for babies up to four years. Volunteers
are needed to repair the orphanage, hug, hold, rock, care for, love, and play with the
attention-deprived children at the above-described under-staffed orphanage.
We are particularly interested in finding experienced caregivers who can
select and train participants. The orphanage is under-funded and
under-staffed. Workers do not have enough time to give individual attention
to all the children.
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| Children at the orphange | Blowing a Kiss | Inside the orphanage |
We will visit a delinquent children’s detention camp, many of whom are learning about the Bible. Get acquainted with these lads and you will come closer to the hidden suffering in Russia. You will see how Christ through his dedicated missionaries is making changes in abandoned and lost boys.
Juvenile Detention Center
Time and energy permitting, we will try to build ecumenical ties with other confessions and ethnic groups or nationalities. Freedom of religion is so new in Russia that some new converts maintain cohesion by denouncing the others. The Methodists are sometimes accused of being a “cult.” We shall certainly visit and, hopefully, worship with the Christian African students studying at the Voronezh University. Because of its low costs, Russia is becoming a major educator of Africans who have been priced out of the United States and Great Britain.
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