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Kuban Evangelica Christian
, Russia, and
University the week of
March 4-12.
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Opens doors in Russia: BPC PUBLIC RELATIONS
Missions, ministry and educational exchange
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2005. However
by Americans during the March elections, and Ostrander said
, the U.S. ambassador there discouraged travel
arrests were still being made following the elections earlier in
the month.
So the group of four instead was directed to the Kuban
Evangelical Christian University (KECU). While there,
Ostrander lectured on intelligent design one evening, which
drew not only the theology students but other students as well,
some of whom professed to be atheists.
As a result, one KECU student will now write her 30-page
bachelor’s thesis on the topic of intelligent design.
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ough such exchanges, we can not only develop cultural opportunities but provide
Christian testimony that might lead to evangelism and discipleship.” – Dr. David Smith, Brewton-
Parker College President
has paved the way for Brewton-Parker College to open
n the past two years, Bob Hartman International Ministries
Soviet Bloc.
previously-closed evangelistic opportunities in the former
Most recently
Religion and Philosophy Division, led a group of four students
, Dr. Hal Ostrander, chair of Brewton-Parker’s
into southwest Russia for a week of ministerial opportunity
during the college’s spring break of March 4-12, 2006.
As that trip was ending, Brewton-Parker
R. Smith, and Dr
’s president, Dr. David
University (S.C.), traveled beyond the Ural Mountains, to the
. Evans Whitaker, president of Anderson
Asian side of Russia, to the city of Ekaterinburg, seeking
academic partnerships unprecedented with any
institution.
American Other BPC students shared their testimonies at the university
Chip Taylor of Sylvania, a recovering alcoholic for nearly 19
.
Dr
years who takes the
Services’
. Bob Hartman, a former consultant with LifeW
student ministries division, arranged for Ostrander
ay Christian Georgia Southern University
Apologetics course along with studies at
and members of his
rehabilitation center
in
. Taylor was ordained as a Baptist minister
, spoke at an alcohol and drug
Krasnodar
Apologetics Practicum class to visit
near the Black Sea.
, a city of about 1 million in Russia’s Kuban Region Wades Baptist Church in Cooperville, Ga.
April 2005 and was recently named Director of Missions at
Hartman also arranged the Ekaterinburg trip and originated its
“There were 20 to 25 people there and one guy said he had
idea with Smith, who wrote the funding grant.
vaguely heard of there being a 12-step program,” said
Because of his work experience in alcohol and drug recovery
Taylor.
The class originally planned to visit the former Soviet republic of
assistance for six years,
Belarus, where Ostrander took a group during Spring Break
returning to Russia in the late summer
Taylor said he feels a definite call of
donations, for this purpose, be sent to the church in care of
, and asked that
2 THE LAMP FALL 2006
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