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Thursday, May 15, 2008 Updated at 15 May 2008 0:17 Moscow Time

The Moscow Times » Issue 3900 » Community Bulletin Board

Community Bulletin Board

13 May 2008

	How to Submit Items
	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 will hold its next general meeting on Wednesday, May 14, from 10 a.m. until noon at the Embassy of Portugal, 3 Grokholsky Pereulok, M. Prospekt Mira. Please bring your passport and badge for security purposes. At this general meeting, it will be possible to renew your membership for next year. For more information, visit www.iwcmoscow.ru.

ENGLISH LANGUAGE EVENINGS will host a lecture entitled "Reflections on Beautiful, Terrible, Mad Moscow" by Australian poet David Wansbrough on May 16 at the Chekhov Cultural Center, 6 Strasnoi Bulvar, M. Chekhovskaya. Entrance fee is 50 rubles. For more information, visit www.elemoscow.net.

FREE ROCK 'N' ROLL JIVE DANCE CLASSES. Beginners classes meet on Saturdays at the Rock 'n' Roll Pub, M. Proletarskaya. For more information, contact Richard Hume, tel. 454-0757, e-mail richardhume588@hotmail.com or visit coopjive.co.uk.

Scottish country dance classes take place on Thursdays at 8 p.m. at 13 Malaya Pigorovskaya, M. Frunzenskaya. All are welcome, you do not need to come with a partner. Entrance fee is 100 rubles. For more information, contact Marina Levina, tel. 8-906-031-44-96 or visit www.scottishdance.ru.

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.

The POMOSHCH DETYAM FOUNDATION helps orphans, poor families and children's institutions. We need donations of food, clothes, school supplies, detergents etc. Contact Anton (English, Russian, French, Italian) at antonsm2002@hotmail.com or Zhanna (Russian), tel. 203-1306, on weekdays from noon to 7 p.m.

HIKERS, WALKERS AND NATURE-LOVERS meet every Sunday to hike in forests around Moscow. Information about meeting points, distances, etc., can be found at www.hike.narod.ru. We are an international community and welcome expats as well as short-term visitors.

THE EXPAT OVER 30'S FOOTBALL (SOCCER!) LEAGUE is looking for new players to join one of eight teams playing weekly on the full-size indoor pitch at Dinamo Stadium. Games are 11-a-side with pro referees, fully sponsored kits and Powerade. If you're 28 or over and have played before, please contact Nick Rees at nickrees99@yahoo.com.

Fancy a game of rugby followed by a cold beer? Join the MOSCOW DRAGONS RUGBY CLUB, Moscow's expat rugby team! We welcome players of all abilities and social members. For more information, contact us at contact@moscowdragonsrfc.com or visit www.moscowdragonsrfc.com

The HASH HOUSE HARRIERS, a drinking/social club with a running problem, meet every Sunday at 3 p.m. near Mayakovskaya metro station to run in a local park. Everyone is welcome. Runs average 40 minutes to an hour at a gentle pace. Drinks after. Cost $6 per person. For more information, contact tel. 8-985-364-9936 or visit www.moscowharriers.itgo.com.

The EXPAT FIELD HOCKEY CLUB invites women and men to play hockey every Saturday from 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. at Sokolniki Football Training Center (M. Sokolniki). Beginners welcome. Sticks provided. 250 rubles. For more information, contact Vineet Arora, tel. 768-7317 or e-mail varora@ricalewis.nsv.ru.

The WOMEN'S FOOTBALL CLUB is open to all women who are ready to have fun playing a bit of unprofessional football every Sunday from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. near Aeroport metro station. For more information, contact Natalie at jennylynn@mail.ru.

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. during which childcare is provided and Sunday School is offered. Wednesday: Holy Communion at 7 p.m. followed by Bible study. For information about other services and the chaplaincy's many activities, visit www.standrewsmoscow.org or call 629-0990.

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 10:30 a.m., church service starts at 12 p.m. 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, Belarusskaya) 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 11 a.m. on the third floor of 2A Schelkovskoye Shosse, M: Cherkizovskaya, Partizanskaya or Schelkovskoye. 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.

INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP, an evangelical church in the heart of Moscow, welcomes you to our English worship services on Sundays at 11:15 a.m. at 12a Bolshoi Nikolopeskovsky Per. Sunday school meets from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. For more information, contact tel. 507-0635 or visit www.icfmoscow.org.

ORTHODOX SHABBAT MORNING SERVICES near Marina Roshcha synagogue (M. Savyolovskaya). For more information, contact Rabbi Avraham Berkowitz at tel. 130-6528.

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.