BRIDGES INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATION CLUB — a club for business networking and finding new English-speaking friends from different countries. Weekly meetings are Tuesdays and Fridays, 12 Tverskaya Ul. Bridgesinternational.ru. Tel. 510-2298.

The EXPAT OVER 28's Football (soccer!) League is currently looking for new players to join one of the nine teams enjoying games every week. We play 11-a-side on a grass pitch, pro referees, fully sponsored kits and Pepsi soft drinks are provided to all players. Shashlik, beer, etc. is free for players, fans, family and friends. It's serious fun every weekend. If you're 28 or over and have played before, please contact Nick Rees for more information at nickrees99@yahoo.com.

NIGERIANS IN DIASPORA ORGANIZATION RUSSIA (NIDOE-Russia) is part of Nigerians In Diaspora Organization Europe, a nongovernment organization for Nigerian intellectuals abroad to participate in Nigeria national development. Russian academicians and businesses interested in Nigeria are also welcome. The focus areas are investments, trade missions, professional networking, medical missions, education, technology and IT skills transfer. More information at Nidorussia.org.

THE ICL HELP LINE is a free, confidential, professional phone counseling service with experience in counseling on relational and personal issues, tough emotional experiences, careers and psychotherapy. Counseling is available in English, Russian, French and Polish. Call +7 (926) 113-3373, from 8 a.m. to 11 p.m., or e-mail ICL@list.ru.

The CIVIC ASSISTANCE CENTER FOR THE ADAPTATION AND EDUCATION OF CHILDREN OF FORCED MIGRANTS is looking for excellent English speakers to be volunteer teachers. If you can offer 1 1/2 hours in the early evening, contact Katya, tel. 350-0427 or smkat@inbox.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.

Want to meet interesting people, care about society and have something to share? ROTARACT MOSCOW INTERNATIONAL CLUB welcomes its guests every fortnight. You will have a chance to participate in social projects, learn new skills, make international and local contacts. For more information, e-mail lenazog@gmail.com or call +7 (915) 209-4097.

FREE JIVE DANCE CLASSES. Beginners' classes held in English and Russian on Saturdays at the Rock 'n' Roll Pub, the Esse Jazz Cafe and club Krimskiye Kanikuli. Not essential to come with a partner. For more information contact Richard at richardhume.hume@gmail.com or 454-0757. Organized by Co-op Jive, www.coopjive.co.uk.

English Bible Study and Worship at GOLGOTHA BAPTIST CHURCH located at Leskova Ulitsa 11 in Moscow near M. Altufeyevo. Expats and students of English are welcome. We start at 2 p.m. on Sundays in Room 2.6 of the church building.

ATTENTION NZ CITIZENS: The New Zealand Embassy encourages all New Zealanders to register on its Internet-based registration facility. This lets us know that you're here and helps us help you in an emergency. Details at www.safetravel.govt.nz.

A FRANCOPHONES CLUB for all who want to speak French meets every Saturday. For information about our programs, which are devoted to French culture, music, arts, games and excursions, and for registration, contact tel. 771-0491, e-mail courrier@m-paris.ru, or visit Francophonie.ru.

The MOSCOW ENGLISH CONVERSATION CLUB, the largest and oldest one in Moscow, invites foreigners and Russians who wish to speak English to meetings on Wednesdays and Sundays from 6 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. at the Chekhov Cultural Center, 6/2 Strastnoi Bulvar (M. Chekhovskaya). Entrance fee is 100 rubles for Russian speakers, free for native English speakers, buffet included. For more information, visit Englclub.ru.

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

RELIGIOUS SERVICES

SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE CATHOLIC CHAPLAINCY. Mass in Spanish/Portuguese every Sunday at 2:30 p.m. at the Immaculate Conception Cathedral, 27 Ul. Malaya Gruzinskaya (M. Barrikadnaya). Preparation for Sacraments; children, student and adult groups. Verbumuniversitas@yandex.ru.

ORTHODOX CHURCH OF ST. CATHERINE THE GREAT MARTYR IN-THE-FIELD, 60/2 Bolshaya Ordynka (M. Polyanka). Services on Saturdays (at 5 p.m.) and Sundays (at 10 a.m., confession starts at 9 a.m.) in Slavonic, and in English the last Saturday of every month. There are English-speaking priests to minister to the needs of English speakers in Moscow. 959-1296, St-catherine.ru.

WORD OF LIFE BIBLE CENTER, Local Evangelical Christians. Services in English with Russian translation Saturday at 7 p.m. and Sunday at 10 a.m., 1:30 p.m., and 5 p.m. Word of Life Church, Senior Pastor Matts-Ola Ishoel. 2 Ul. Pavla Korchagina (M. Alexeyevskaya). 223-3035, Wolrus.org

ST. ANDREW’S ANGLICAN CHURCH MOSCOW, 8 Voznesensky Per. (M. Okhotny Ryad). Sunday: Holy Communion at 8:30 a.m., Sung Eucharist at 11 a.m. with creche for young children. Wednesday: Holy Communion at 7 p.m. followed by a Bible study and Prayer Group. Contact Fr. Simon at 629-0990 or see Standrewsmoscow.org.

MOSCOW PROTESTANT CHAPLAINCY at St. Andrew’s Anglican Church, 8 Voznesensky Per., meets every Sunday at 3 p.m. Child care is provided during the service, and we also offer Sunday School. A youth group for 7th-12th graders meets after the service. We also have a number of midweek programs. 143-3562.

MOSCOW INTERNATIONAL SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH, 9/3 Nagatinskaya Ul. (M. Nagatinskaya, Kolomenskaya). Sabbath School on Saturday at 11 a.m., church service at noon. Services are held in English and Russian. Moscowchurch.ru

OUR LADY OF HOPE meets Sundays in English and French at 12:15 p.m. at the Immaculate Conception Church, 27 Ul. Malaya Gruzinskaya (M. Barrikadnaya) and in English at 6 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays at 7/4 Kutuzovsky Prospekt, Bldg. 5, Pod. 3, Flat 42 (M. Kievskaya). Contact Fr. Michael at 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. 456-1280, jw_moscow@yahoo.com.

INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN ASSEMBLY offers English-language services at 11 a.m. on the third floor of 2A Shchyolkovskoye Shosse (M. Cherkizovskaya). Translation is available into Russian and other languages on request. Sunday School for children 4-12 years old and a nursery for those under 3. +7 (962) 933-3581, icamoscow@yandex.ru, Icamoscow.org.

MOSCOW GOOD NEWS CHURCH meets Sundays at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. at Dom Kultury MIIT, 6 Novosushchyovsky Per. (M. Novoslobodskaya). Free buses from the metro. All English speakers are welcome to the English service Sunday afternoons from 3 to 4:30 p.m. at 2A Shchyolkovskoye Shosse, third floor (M. Cherkizovskaya). 727-1472, international@mgnc.org.

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). Stlouis.ru

The CHURCH of JESUS CHRIST of LATTER-DAY SAINTS offers worship services in English at 9:30 a.m. Sundays at 6. Stromynsky Per. (M. Sokolniki). +7 (964) 538-3726.

INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP, an evangelical church in the heart of Moscow, welcomes you to our English worship services Sundays at 11:15 a.m. Bolshoi Nikolopeskovsky Per., 11A, 2nd floor. +7 (906) 093-4801, icfmoscow.org.

THE SANTERIA HOUSE OF MOSCOW (La Casa del Santo) is a nonsectarian social association of worshippers who are interested in Santeria (Afro-Cuban religion). Our place is at Ul. Klimashkina Bldg. 22 (M. Ulitsa 1905 Goda). Contact Carlos A. Reyes at aoddun@yahoo.com or +7 (963) 616-3498.