May 04 2008
Onward Christian Soldiers
As our maintenance continues, we’ll be posting articles from our newest issue on the blog. First up is the issue’s featured Focus piece on Christian missionaries in the former Soviet Union, written by Maria Blackwood (JE ‘10).
Oksana is a 25-year-old Russian woman who works as a supervisor at the career-advising department of the local government’s employment center. aresident of Yekaterinburg—a city located deep inside Russia’s heartland—she was baptized into the Russian Orthodox Church when she was 11 at her aunt’s insistence.
A few years ago, Oksana started to attend the local services of the Boston Church of Christ and Sun Myung Moon’s Unification Church. These experiences, however, were more social than religious, she said. “I never believed in God. I was raised in a family where nobody did.”