Prison Ministries Information

Name of Ministry:
Semiluki Prison Ministry
Emphasis:
Bible Study
Brief Description of Ministry:
I am currently pastoring in the "Revival" United Methodist Church in Latnaya, Russia and leading prison ministry in a high security prison in the town of Semiluki.This particular prison holds about 2000 people, it has a special tuberculosis division, Aids division (~60 people) and invalids-disabled (~100 people). I came to the administration of the prison in Semiluki in May, 2001 with the request to let me lead Bible study lessons with the prisoners. For the last three years Protestants were not allowed to work there, but I was lucky enough to persuade the director to let me in and I have been participating in this ministry for 1.5 years. I came to this specific prison because it is located close to my church. In the beginning of my ministry I asked our Bishop Rudiger Minor to allocate some funds in order to prepare a room for Bible study. We renovated one of the rooms in the prison for that purpose, and now it is called the room of psychological rehabilitation. For 1.5 years, prisoners have been meeting there to sing hymns, study Bible and listen to sermons. One of the prisoners starts to give Bible lessons himself. He wants to enter Methodist seminary to continue his theological education. He used to attend Baptist Church before getting into prison. All of the prisoners enjoy going to the lessons and begin to ask difficult theological questions. I am so thankful to God that he let me enter the "gates" of the prison and bring something good to the hearts of the convicted. With love in Christ, pastor Galina Kolesnikova
Contacts:
First Name
Galina
Last Name
Kolesnikova
Street Adrees
58 Holzunova Street
Apt. 139
City
Voronezh
State
 
Zip
394053
Country
Russia
Daytime phone number
01170732737554
Evening phone number
same
E-mail address
mail@vicky.vrn.ru; v_kolesnikova@yahoo.com
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