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Here is a video I found by Calvary Chapel in Ukraine having a "worship" service. I thought some here might find this interesting.

Calvary Chapel Service in Kiev, Ukraine [youtube.com]

I found this video: Holy God

in the same area when doing a youtube scan.

Does anyone know anything about it?

Language?

Church?

Can't look at it at work, but in a related vein, it seems like every time I put in a place name in flickr for an Eastern European location I invariably find pictures of missionaries there.

Here is another one by the same choir:

Bless the Lord

Here are some Ukrainian Orthodox Nuns

not to hijack the thread, but as I was re-blocking channels on the cable box I ran across this. It was on the channel that has the 700 club. I block these channels on my tv. So this channel had a thing about how to send them money to fund tv episodes. Tv episodes for what? Well, it showed Orthodox Priests and then it said "a large effort is taking place to bring Christ to Russia and we have all the material translated."
Orthodox, unite! While we helped out so much as we could during the CCCP days, we need to revamp that and start helping even more. We need clergy that speaks the language of the immigrants as well (english and their language). I know many Evangelical organizations that have pastors in the USA that speak Ukrainain/Russian and English. On the flipside, then the chance for the immigrants/international folk to get snatched up by the fundamentalists is greater when we don't have the availibility to bring the Orthodox message to them in their language in our country.
Think I'm kidding, it's a real problem.

I mentioned in another thread here that I have Evangelical coworkers who went to Siberia last summer because in their eyes the Orthodox are no more Christian than Catholics are. (Worst part of this was that my coworker is an ex-Catholic.)

Dave

Yes, I knew a woman of Maronite heritage who left the Catholic Church and goes back to Lebanon every summer to convert the Maronites to Protestantism.

"Holy God" is part of the Divine Liturgy Number 2, composed by Roman Hurko of Canada.

The language is Ukrainian.

Filmed in the beautiful 11th century Vydubytsky Ukrainian Orthodox Monastery in Kyiv. Performed by the Vydubychi Church Choir and conducted by Volodymyr Viniar.

Hurko has composed other works of sacred music. His Liturgy 2000 was performed for recording by Professor Thompson and the Schola Cantorum of St. Peter at St. Volodymyr & Olha Church in Chicago

For more information see:

http://www.romanhurko.com/index.cfm

"Well, it showed Orthodox Priests and then it said 'a large effort is taking place to bring Christ to Russia and we have all the material translated.'"

On an earlier thread I related an experience I had with Campus Crusade for Christ about seven years ago. I have had an interest in Russia for many years and was tempted, as a Protestant, to travel there for missionary work. I wanted to go there and help those struggling with atheism and with faith to come to a love of Christ.

I saw which time and room the presentation was going to be in and watched. The speaker passionately described how he, with others, would go into a small village and set up a church to "bring Jesus" to the locals. He described some of difficulties the mission had to respond to and the general temper of the locals. At one point he ranted against Orthodox priests and speoke against clergy; he bemoaned the fact that so many people "do not understand that Jesus Christ, not any man, is our priest." He ended his testimony with a call-to-arms on that point. Many cheered, but I was dumbfounded and wondered why they could not bring people to Jesus and then send them off to their local priest. I decided then and there that "missions" of that type was not my calling.

Terry

I've been saying this for years! Moscow needs to stop worrying about Catholics and look at what the protestants are doing. I had an accquaintance in high school who was a Pentecostal, dresses only and no cutting the hair for women, type. Her church had a HUGE mission to Ukraine to "bring them to Christ." This was 1981.