1993

 

  • January – UMCOR representatives and Lydia Istomina meet with the First Lady Naina Eltsina and the Ministry of Social Justice in Moscow.
  • March
    • Norway election. Bishop Minor is elected at the Northern European Conference in Bergen, Norway; representatives from Russia and the CIS, Lydia Istomina and Andrei Kim, speak up against this nomination.
    • Bishop Vaxbi declines their request to become the Bishop of Russia.
    • Dwight Ramsey is asked by the Nomination Committee to become the Bishop for Russia and the CIS, yet declines.
  • April – Lydia Istomina is a panel speaker at the Global Gathering in Indianapolis.
  • July – 3rd Anniversary of the church. Dr. Ken Lutgen comes for the first time.
  • December
    • Lydia Istomina organizes another meeting with Naina Eltsina and the Ministry of Justice.
    • Ella Pamfilova is invited to speak at the GBGM Board meeting in April 1994.
    • Various programs are discussed: vaccination program, pure water project.
    • Dr. Kenneth Lutgen visits several orphanages in the Moscow area.  Dr. Randolph Nugent and Kenneth Lutgen meet with the Patriarch Aleksii II in this home at Peredlkino.