2018 Christmas Gift
This Christmas, give a bivocational Russian pastor the gift of a seminary education.
Here’s what your Christmas Gift will accomplish:
$75 provides the daily fee of a Russian translator in our classroom.
$250 provides one week of lodging and meals for a student and one day of classroom rental for the whole class.
$500 provides round-trip airfare to St. Petersburg for a student traveling from Russia/Eurasia.
$2,000 provides airfare, room and board for an instructor traveling from the US.
$10,000 provides airfare, room and board for 20 pastor’s wives to attend a women’s retreat during the intensive.
A preacher once said that “God never makes any junk!” Fortunately for Pastor Pavel, this is not always the case, because scrap metal (a.k.a. “junk”) pays the bills, so he can shepherd his flock at Morningstar Evangelical Church, southeast of St. Petersburg.
Like most HopeRussia students, Pavel studies at our seminary while working two jobs, one of which is pastor. Our students are already pastors and church planters, scattered across eleven Eurasian time zones. So our instructional model is based on two-week intensive courses—taught in St. Petersburg—allowing our students to continue in ministry while they study. We conduct two intensive courses per year (Fall and Spring). We also provide year-round one-on-one mentoring for each student from HopeRussia founder, Blake Purcell, who speaks fluent Russian. We give these things to our students at no charge.
So here’s where you come in!
During this season of generosity, your contribution to the HopeRussia Christmas Gift will make next year’s intensives happen for Pavel and many others like him.