Russia

Field Office Information

C&MA Field Entry in 1993

Field Director:

Tom Becker

Mailing Address:

Azovskaya Street 24, K2, Apt 715 Entrance 10, 14th Floor
Moscow 117452, RUSSIA

Phone:

011-7-095-318-0409

Email:

cmarussia@aol.com

Website:

http://www.cmainrussia.org

National Church

The Evangelical Christian Missionary Union, The Missionary Brotherhood, The Association of Missionary Churches of Evangelical Christians: 35 organized churches, 19 unorganized groups, 32 ordained ministers, 2,350 baptized members, and 3,000 inclusive members

Team Initiatives

• Come alongside our fledging church plants in four of Russia’s five largest cities to help them grow and have an impact on their communities. These churches have the potential of reaching 20 million people of many nationalities.
• Identify and help meet the needs of the four national church groups with which the mission is partnering. Pray that this model would be an example of the unity of the Body of Christ.
• Encourage our national church partners to adopt a churches-planting-churches approach in their efforts, believing that this will help overcome some social and economic barriers to growth.

Help for the Needy

2012-01-12 15:40:50.0

In Moscow, Russia, a help center for Central Asian migrant workers began operations, aiding workers with registration of their temporary residence in the city and helping them in job hunting. This kind of help, enabled through GCF dollars, is offered to people trying to navigate the complexities of life in a foreign society that views them as "second class." The outreach opens doors to share hope in Jesus with them during a time when they may be ready to receive His truth. Already, several people have chosen to follow Jesus, two cell groups have been formed, and one believer who has returned to his Central Asian homeland has led others to the Lord in that country, where we cannot currently place North American workers.

Demographics

Population

Population--143,420,309 Infant mortality rate--15.4/1,000 Life expectancy--67.1

Capital City

Moscow (11,970,500) pop.

Geography

About 1.8 times the size of the United States, Russia (6,592,735 sq. mi.) is the largest country in the world, spanning 11 time zones with every topography and climate except tropical. European area is low plain, grassy in south and wooded in north; Ural Mountains are in the east and Caucasus Mountains in south. Asiatic area is vast plain with mountains in south and east; tundra covers northern plains, marshes in west, desert in southwest.

Languages

Russian (official), other

Ethnicity/Race

Russian--81.5%; Tatar--3.8%; Ukrainian--3%; other--11.7%

Economy

Per capita income--$9,800 Inflation--11.5% Unemployment--8.3% Literacy rate--100% (2003 est.)

Government/Political Climate

Constitutional federation. After the Russian Empire was overthrown in 1917, the Communists under Lenin seized power and formed the USSR. Multiparty federal democracy instituted in 1990. Recent years have seen erosion in nascent democratic institutions.

Religion

Russian Orthodox, Muslim, other