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Russian Church Children Center is a ministry of Russian
United Methodist Church Initiative (new Russian United Methodist
Church of Baltimore-Washington
Conference) for Russian-speaking children and youth. The mission
of Russian Church Children Center is to preserve Russian
cultural and spiritual heritage in young generation.
We believe that Russian Church Children Center is God's home
which is open for all kids, no matter what religious, social
or economic background they come from. With joy and love we
serve to children of all ages who come to the USA from
different republics of former USSR. We have children from
Russia, Ukraine, Byelorussia, Moldova, Armenia, and Kazakhstan.
We also extend our ministry to English-speaking families who
adopted kids from republics of former USSR.
Through educational activities we provide Russian-speaking
children with opportunity to appreciate and love their
language, traditions and spirituality. Our carefully developed
program helps children to learn the basics of Christian Ethics
and Spirituality, to learn the meanings and symbols of Russian
liturgical holidays (including Easter and Christmas). We work
in co-operation with families on nurturing spiritually and
physically healthy children who know how to share, love, help,
be friends, be compassionate, respectful, appreciative and be
disciplined.
We believe that Russian language is a powerful tool to
explore the beauty of Russian culture. Therefore, in our
center we always work on learning and improving of writing,
reading, and listening skills. We have different groups
according to the language proficiency and age (from beginners
to advanced). For children who speak English and forget
Russian we have special speech-development classes, where we
work more on building vocabulary and pronunciation.
We want to make a learning process to be fun; and through
educational, musical and rhythmical games, story
telling, songs, tong twisters, theater plays, dance children
can enjoy their classes. For more details see our Scheduler
and Events.
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