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In our Union we have 83 congregations and among them are twelve Russian speaking congregations.
Now the Estonian speaking women have a new leadership and I felt that
the Russian sisters needed help also. Since 2007 we have had, separated
from the Estonian sisters, Russian sisters' Spring and Autum days, each
time in different churches in Estonia. The Russian sisters are very
open and many young sisters are very active in the work.
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is very important for them, that they can listen and talk in their
mother language on very real, burning topics, such as counselling,
women as daughters, women as sisters, women as friends, women as wives,
women as mothers, women as grandmothers, women as servant-ministers,
medical issues, Biblical subjects and so on.
In March 2009 we had in Tallinn a large women's conference connected to
the Festival of Hope (Franklin Graham), the topic being "The woman at
the well" and what it means for us today.
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I have started with a new project: Integration of Russian speaking
children and adults into the Estonian society. Estonian people are open
to take Russian people into their families for a certain period in
summer time. Some congregations took Russian children to their
congregations' summer camps. It is very good for both sides and I got
very positive responses. We as Christans must love everybody and seek
to understand and help. We feel that we are one Christian family.
Haldi Leinus,
Russian sisters work coordinator in the Union of Free Evangelical and Baptist Churches of Estonia.
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