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Moldova Fact File
Map: Philippe Rekacewicz, Emmanuelle Bournay,
UNEP/GRID-Arendal. See:http://maps.grida.no/go/graphic/moldova_topographic_map |
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Moldova
- Partners
Poganesti Baptist Church - Location rural Poganesti (pop 1800). 30 members. Ministries - children, evangelism. This little church is one our most recent partners. Poganesti is very poor. 10 to 15% of its population have migrated and there is 95% unemployment. Life expectancy is 63 years. 50% of the land remains fallow. People do not have the funds to cultivate it. We are in the process of helping Pastor Victor to refurbish the church manse which had become uninhabitable and to develop a "mission engine" for his church and ministry. We also look forward to helping the church to develop its ministries .
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Pastor Victor Cirjan with wife Nija and children
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Centre of Legal Assistance for People with Disabilities - Founded 2006. Location: Capital Chisinau. Office location: Centre of Rehabilitation of the Society for the Blind in Moldova. Our partner since June 2007, this charity is staffed by a team of Christians from one of our partner church's, who have a passion for helping people with disabilities in Moldova. Their mission includes the provision of free legal assistance and advice for disabled people and their carers. The Centre is also in the process of developing and circulating a monthly audio journal for the visually impaired. Many of its potential 9000 readers are scattered throughout remote rural areas where facilities for the blind are virtually non-existent.
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President - Vitalie Mester
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Community Church – Location: Capital Chisinau (pop
1 million). Evangelical, 60 members. Mission: “Evangelism
is a basic priority for our church - the Lord Jesus sent us
to all to witness about Him, and we as a church are called
to take this good news of forgiveness to all people.”
Ministries include: Clubs for adolescents and young people,
Alpha courses, evangelistic conferences for adolescents and
young people, retreats/camps for young people, distribution
of Christian literature and Bibles, community/family welfare.
Vision to church plant in Ialoveni, Hincesti and Ciocana,
a very poor area in Chisinau. |
Church
Summer Camp |
Christian
Association of Micro Economic Development (CAMED)
– Location: Chisinau. Vision: “To build and expand
the Kingdom of God in Moldova though economic development,
education and spiritual ministry.” Mission: To develop
a network of Christian Micro-credit organisations in Moldova.
This is a small association but with a huge heart for the
Lord and a passion for helping the poor to start small businesses
through micro credit. It organises annual training
events and conferences for businessmen and farmers. It is
highly professional, has a proven track record and has helped
many poor people become self-sufficient. |
Farmers'
Training Days |
Tintareni
Baptist Church – Location: rural Tintareni
(pop 3000). Church has 160 members. Ministries include: Evangelical
events/activities, church planting. Church members also founded
the Tintareni Bethania Association Christian Centre, which
includes after school clubs, poor children's lunch club,
lunch for elderly people, children's library, ‘Shelter
House’ and 'Transition House' projects for orphan young
women. In recent years our support has largely been in connection with Bethania Association activites: including help to raise funds for the Shelter House project and support for summer children's activities. |
Bethania
Christian Centre
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Dancu
Baptist Church – Location: rural Dancu (pop
1800). Church has 100 members. Ministries include: Many evangelical
activities, 4 church plants, large array of children’s
activities. Pastor founder of Tabita Association which includes:
income generation projects for community and church ie,
dairy, cheese making, sewing, mechanisation (combine harvester
and tractor), the latter used to help poor farmers become
self sufficient. The Pastor, Dumitru Cravenco, is an ordained Baptist Bishop responsible
for 45 other churches in 3 regions. |
Tabita
Mechanisation Project
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Gotesti
Baptist Church – Location: rural Gotesti (pop
5000). Church has 45 members, 2 church plants. Ministries
include: Youth and children’s activities, Bible study
clubs, income generation projects ie, coffee/bakery drop in
centre (under development), sunflower oil production, pasta,
pig husbandry. |
Church
pasta making project
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Malcoci – Location:
rural Malcoci (pop 3000). Church ‘Nasterea Domnuli’
– Baptist, has 25 members. Ministries: Evangelical
programmes all ages, basic welfare for poor, especially
elderly, children’s activities and outreach clubs.
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 Baptismal
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Siberia
Fact File
Map: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamal-Peninsula
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Facts:
In 2006 Yamal experienced winter temp of –59C
40,000 Nenets live in Arctic Russia
Historically
Nenets are nomadic reindeer herders
Spiritually
Nenets come from a tradition of shamanism
There are only
300-500 known Christian believers
The Nenets' traditional
way of life has been deeply eroded by economic and environmental factors
Many Nenets
are unemployed and suffer from cycle of hopelessness, alcoholism
and high suicide rate |
Siberia
– Partner Profile
Salekhard
‘Good News’ Church
In 2002 BREADLINE established a partnership with a small, vibrant
Baptist missionary church in Salekhard, North West Siberia.
The church was planted in 1999 to minister to
the minority people groups in the region – Nenets, Khanti
and some Selkup. In October 2000 seven people were baptised, now there are over 50 members. The church has a strong
emphasis on missionary training and outreach and is
working in eight communities on the remote Yamal peninsular,
including the Nenets settlements of Beloyarsk, Aksarka, and
Yar-Sale. |
Good News Church Salekhard |
“The
main goal of our vision is to prepare missionaries for the Yamal
region.”
Pastor
Anatoliy |
In 2003, the
church requested our support to help towards the development
of a mission school for training indigenous mission workers.
The training of local workers began in 2005 and the funds
received from BREADLINE and other Christian agencies were
used for each student’s stipendiary, including costs
of in-situ accommodation, training materials and resources.
Hitherto, these workers would have had to be trained at the
nearest training colleges thousands of kilometres away in
the south of Russia. Now they can train alongside those they
are reaching, saving much time and resources. |
Nenet Mission Worker |
“The
project enables workers to be trained locally and become established
in local communities where they can build the relationships that
are key to modelling a holistic gospel.”
Mike Kirkwood – BREADLINE Trustee
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