charity :: spiritual work

Every working day for the Stephania stuff starts with the morning prayer.

There is a ground nearby the cafe, where managers preach daylong. The Bible, Word of God that sounds here, little by little change the minds of the cafe visitors, corrects them, give the possibility to understand the real cause of their poverty, help them to be established in the faith.

Thus, since the beginning of the Stephania's work 3 254 persons accepted Jesus Christ as a Lord of their lives; 3 persons graduated from the Joshua Bible Institute, 28 persons became priests and now they serve in church; 14 persons finished the Success Bible school; 2 persons got out of drug dependence at the rehabilitation center. Now they devote themselves to the Lord as leaders in groups of deliverance and help other people.

Since December 1999 there are available ministries for visitors of the Stephania cafe.

The following ministries are carried out in a classroom:

- Rehabilitation center for alcoholics and drug addicts (they include most of the visitors). There is a prayer group that consists of their relatives.

- Classes for job finding.

According to investigations of the Institute of Sociology the former prisoners make up 48% of homeless. The great wish to change their lives according to the Bible principles helped many of those people to acquire social and psychological full value, who as recently as yesterday were given up by the society.

- Children's ministry. Also waifs visit the cafe. They take different classes. First of all, they are taught to think according to the Bible principles. Besides, they are taught to read, write (many of them do not go to school, because they have no documents), draw, play the piano.

- The Christian creative center "Nazarene".

- Healing ministry.

- Parents-children ministry.

- Group of strengthening with Bible.

- Trust line ministry.

- Videoministry - watching of topical films.

- Men ministry.

- Women ministry.

- Home groups.

- We are planning to open law consultation office, where the lawyer will give legal help to least privileged. We are already looking up the visitors' background in order to restore their documents.

The aim of these ministries is to help people to find themselves in their lives. Thanks to Stephania

3 007 persons have come back to normal life. For people who have come here for the first time, Stephania is that last straw at which they catch to escape drowning.