2000-2022
Snapshots of a Growing Movement
2000: Professors and Pastors begin traveling from the US to teach in the seminary.
2003: HopeRussia Seminary’s first graduates
2006: Five HopeRussia Seminary graduates (4 Russians and 1 Russian-speaking Latvian) commissioned to plant Presbyterian Church of Eurasia churches across the former Soviet Union.
Blake Purcell wearing traditional headgear with HopeRussia graduate who is planting a church in his hometown in the ‘Stans (i.e. Usbekistan, Turkmenistan, etc.)
2017: Grace Evangelical Church, St. Petersburg, pastored by HopeRussia student Dimitri Datsuk (circled)
Spring 2018: Growing number of intensive course attendees
2018: These HopeRussia students and graduates pastor and plant churches all across Russia and the former Soviet Union.
2022: While teaching in Siberia, HopeRussia VP Mike Rasmussen visits in the home of student Andre Skriabin (right, with beard), who pastors the Evangelical Church of Prokopyevsk.