God spoke to Tom Fruth and Steve Griebling about a ministry in"The East" while we were ministering to over 40 leaders on top of a Norwegian mountain. (We were in a retreat center at Vats.) The next year I met a Christian Psychologist at a meeting in California and she invited me to come to Moscow to visit her. I did after training leaders in Norway the following year of 1991.
In the meantime, 1989, I had set up a Christ-centered psychiatric hospital and used the same materials I developed in my doctoral dissertation and at College Hill Church to minister to the residents. In 1992 I met Galina Chentsova while on another exploratory trip to Moscow when she was finishing her Ph. D. In Christian Psychology. I invited her to spend a few months with us in the hospital and taking our classes in Apples of Gold, Rational Christian Thinking, Breaking Free from the Past, etc.
After Galina returned home I visited Moscow several times and established an organization there like called, Teleios Moscow. It was modeled after what we had done in Norway, Sweden and Denmark. After some time I, as President of EMI, gave Galina the exclusive rights to all of our EMI materials to translate and publish them in Russia.
Galina soon joined forces with a strong woman named Nina who, along with the Christian Medical Society, worked to set up Christian 12 Step Groups. They began to establish groups for Addicts and Co-Dependents all over Russia. Perhaps more importantly, they raised up a team of highly committed lay and pastoral leaders to spread the work. Now those groups and the training in listening, rational thinking, speaking the truth in love, family systems and inner healing are widely available around the Federation.
Galina and her team recently changed the name of their organization to Liferoute to better speak to the Russian mind and soul. They also have a web page. www.liferoute.ru
We welcome your comments and contributions. God is spreading his good news to all nations through many means and we are very excited that he has chosen our approach to healing as a way to draw people to Christ.
Over 75% of all Russian males are addicts and almost every woman is Co-Dependent so our ministry attracts many wounded non-believers who are hungry for healing and dying for love.
One wonderful female doctor wept as we used Quads to practice Apples of Gold. No one had ever listened to her before. Millions of men and women and their children are in bondage to vodka, beer and gin. They are dying without Christ unless we tell them about His love.
posted by Gary Sweeten @ Thursday, July 06, 2006
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