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Community Bulletin Board

08 September 2008Unknown
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Community Bulletin Board is published every Tuesday. Please submit notices of up to 40 words by noon Thursday.
E-mail community@imedia.ru,
call +7 (495) 234-3223 or
fax +7 (495) 232-6529.

The International Women's Club hosts a Newcomer's Cofee Morning on September 6 from 10:00 – 12:00 at Le Pain Quotidien, Novinsky Boulevard, bldg. 7. Come & connect with other working women, in particular expatriates, in a friendly, relaxed environment. Newcomer's welcome! More information at www.iwcmoscow.ru.

The MOSCOW ORATORIO SOCIETY will begin rehearsals (Wednesday evenings) in September for a holiday concert of Handel's Messiah and other seasonal music. All voice parts welcome. Great chance to join a group of singers from Russia and 15 other countries. Write carol@irex.ru or visit www.moscoworatorio.com

The BRITISH WOMEN'S CLUB is open to British passport holders and those married to British passport holders. Meetings are held weekly at Starbucks and monthly at the British Embassy. New members are very welcome but must register in advance for the Embassy meetings. For more information, please visit www.bwcmoscow.co.uk

U.S. citizens: You can vote in the presidential election from overseas! It's easy to register to vote, look up your state deadlines, and find links to nonpartisan candidate information at the OVERSEAS VOTE FOUNDATION. For more information, visit www.overseasvotefoundation.org.

Moscow School 309 for Handicapped Children seeks donations for their psychological development program. Table-top games and sports equipment (for motor skills, hand-eye coordination and spatial orientation); child-sized sofas; Lego-Duplos; and computer equipment would be greatly appreciated. For more information, contact Larisa Mikhailovna, the school director, at tel. 184-3703 (Russian only) or address e-mail in English to Nina Alexandrovna at glades54@mail.ru.

An ENGLISH CLUB FROM PUSHKINO invites people to go from bicycle rides in the countryside. Pushkino is a 30-minute drive from Moscow and the group has bikes available for rent for 300 rubles. Rides begin at Pushkino railway station and last around 2 hours. For more information, contact Alex, Tel. 8-926-496-7499 or visit www.english-pushkino.ru.

FAMILIES AND FRIENDS OF ALCOHOLICS: English language Al-Anon meetings continue through the summer! Small group meets every Tuesday from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. at St. Andrew's Church, lower level, 8/5 Voznesensky Per. between Tverskaya and Bolshaya Nikitskaya Ulitsas. For information call 234-2384 or email english-alanon-moscow@hotmail.com. General Al-Anon information available at www.al-anon.alateen.org

The mission of YES CLUB is to develop through learning from each other. We hold discussions in English every Wednesday at 7 p.m. at Pervoye Sentyabrya publishing house, 24 Kievskaya (M. Studencheskaya). For more information, contact Lyuba, tel. 8-916-225-2532, e-mail gribanovalyuba@mail.ru or visit www.yes-club.org.

The AMERICAN WOMEN'S ORGANIZATION meets the first and third Wednesday of the month at the Hard Rock Cafe, 44 Arbat, from 10:30 a.m. to noon and holds newcomers coffees at the same location every second Wednesday. For more information, e-mail awomoscow@yahoo.com

RELIGIOUS SERVICES



ST. ANDREW'S ANGLICAN CHURCH MOSCOW, 8 Voznesensky Per. (M. Okhotny Ryad, Pushkinskaya). Sunday: Holy Communion at 8:30 a.m., Sung Eucharist at 11 a.m. with creche for young children. Wednesday: Holy Communion is at 7 p.m., followed by a Bible study and Prayer Group. For more information about other services and the chaplaincy's many activities, contact Fr. Simon on 629-0990, the Chaplaincy Administrator (Tuesday-Thursday) on 629-9889 or visit www.standrewsmoscow.org.

MOSCOW PROTESTANT CHAPLAINCY at St. Andrew's Anglican Church, 8 Voznesensky Per., meets every Sunday at 3 p.m. Childcare is provided during the service and we also offer Sunday School. A youth group for 7th-12th graders meets following the service. We also have a number of mid-week programs. For more information, call 143-3562.

MOSCOW INTERNATIONAL SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH, 9/3 Nagatinskaya Ulitsa, (M. Nagatinskaya, Kolomenskaya). For more information, call 499-725-5398. Sabbath School begins on Saturday at 11 a.m., church service starts at noon. Services are held in English and Russian.

OUR LADY OF HOPE meets on Sundays in English and French at 12:15 p.m., at the Immaculate Conception Church, 27 Ul. Malaya Gruzinskaya (M. Barrikadnaya, Belorusskaya) and in English at 6 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays at 7/4 Kutuzovsky Prospekt, Korpus 5, Entrance 3, Flat 42 (M. Kievskaya). For more information, contact Fr. Michael at tel. 243-9621.

The MOSCOW ENGLISH CONGREGATION OF JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES meets in the Kingdom Hall at 36 Ul. Mikhalkovskaya on Wednesdays and Fridays at 7 p.m. and Sundays at 10 a.m. For more information, contact tel. 456-1280 or e-mail jw_moscow@yahoo.com.

The INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN ASSEMBLY is a contemporary English speaking church with a relevant message for today's society. Translation is available into Russian, Portuguese and other languages on request. There is a Sunday School for children from 4 to 12 years old and a nursery for those under 3 years old. Regular Sunday church service now starts at 11am on the third floor of 2A Shchyolkovskoye Shosse, M. Cherkizovskaya, Partizanskaya or Shchyolkovskaya. For more information, contact tel. 8-962-933-3581, e-mail icamoscow@yandex.ru or visit http://icamoscow.org.

MOSCOW GOOD NEWS CHURCH meets on Sundays at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. at Dom Kultury MIIT, 6 Novosushchyovsky Per. (M. Novoslobodskaya). Free buses from the metro.

FRIDAY NIGHT SHABBAT DINNER at the Marina Roshcha Synagogue (M. Savyolovskaya). To RSVP, please e-mail jewishmoscow@gmail.com, or for more information on Jewish programs and classes led in English, contact Rabbi Avraham Berkowitz at tel. 799-5751.

The MOSCOW CONGREGATION FOR PROGRESSIVE JUDAISM meets at the Moscow Jewish Community House, 14/1 Ul. Volochayevskaya (M. Baumanskaya, Ploshchad Ilicha). Friday night services in Russian and Hebrew start at 7 p.m. For details of festival services in English and Hebrew, please contact Rabbi Nelly Shulman at nashulmans@mail.ru.

ST. LOUIS DES FRANCAIS, Catholic Church. Mass is celebrated in English at 9.30 a.m. and in French at 10.30 a.m. every Sunday. At 12A Malaya Lubyanka (M. Lubyanka.)

The CHURCH of JESUS CHRIST of LATTER-DAY SAINTS is now holding worship services in Spanish at 1:30 p.m every Sunday. At 14 Yefremova Ul. Office C, M.Sportivnaya. Or call 8-916-210-9077 and ask for Elder Salinas. Worship services are also held in English at 1:00 p.m. on Sundays at 6 Stromynsky Per., M. Sokolniki.

International Christian Fellowship, an evangelical church in the heart of Moscow, welcomes you to our English worship services on Sundays at 11:15 am at Bolshoi Nikolopeskovsky Pereulok, 12a. Call 507-06-35 for more info, or see http://icfmoscow.org.

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