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Wednesday, September 03, 2008 Updated at 03 September 2008 0:24 Moscow Time.

The Moscow Times » Issue 3980 » Community Bulletin Board

Community Bulletin Board

03 September 2008

To Our Readers

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SWEA, Swedish Women's Educational Association, will hold a welcome party for new and old members at restaurant Scandinavia, Sept. 11 at 19.00. All Swedish-speaking women living in Moscow are welcome to enjoy some SWEA-time together! For more info please contact Maria SpЪrri-Hedberg at +7 (903) 112 8831.

The MOSCOW INTERNATIONAL CHOIR will launch its fall season on Sept. 16 at St. Andrew's Church (8, Voznesensky Pereulok, Pushkinskaya) at 7.00 p.m. with Vivaldi's Gloria and assorted carols. MIC is a nonaudition choir bringing together amateur and professional singers from all over the world. All singing residents of Moscow are welcome to join! moscow.international.choir@gmail.com for more information.

The British Women's Club is open to British passport holders and those married to British passport holders. Meetings are held weekly at Starbucks and monthly at the British Embassy. New members are very welcome but must register in advance for the Embassy meetings. For more information, please visit www.bwcmoscow.co.uk

The HASH HOUSE HARRIERS, a drinking and social club with a running problem, meet every Sunday at 3 p.m. near Mayakovskaya metro station to run in a local park. Everyone is welcome. Runs average 40 minutes to an hour at a gentle pace. Drinks after. Cost $6 per person. For more information, contact tel. 8-985-364-9936 or visit www.moscowharriers.itgo.com.

THE EXPAT OVER 30S FOOTBALL (SOCCER!) LEAGUE is looking for new players to join one of eight teams playing weekly on the full-size indoor pitch at Dynamo Stadium. Games are 11-a-side with pro referees, fully sponsored kits and Powerade. If you're 28 or over and have played the game before, please contact Nick Rees at nickrees99@yahoo.com.

The NEW ENGLISH COMMUNICATION CLUB (NECC) meets twice a week at COFEMAX. Here you can make new international and local contacts and share your culture and language over food and drinks. Meetings are Thursdays from 8:00p.m. to 10:30p.m. and Sundays from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. at 3 Novoslobodskaya Ul. For more information, contact George at 8-916-331-6862 or visit www.comclub.ru

FREE JIVE DANCE CLASSES. Beginners' classes meet on Saturdays at the Rock 'n' Roll Pub, M. Proletarskaya. For more information, contact Richard Hume, tel. 454-0757, e-mail richardhume588@hotmail.com or visit www.coopjive.co.uk.

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 www.englclub.ru.

The EXPAT FIELD HOCKEY CLUB invites women and men to play hockey every Saturday from 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. at Sokolniki Football Training Center (M. Sokolniki). Beginners welcome. Sticks provided. 250 rubles. For more information, contact Vineet Arora, tel. 768-7317 or e-mail varora@ricalewis.nsv.ru.

RELIGIOUS SERVICES

ST. ANDREW'S ANGLICAN CHURCH MOSCOW, 8 Voznesensky Per. (M. Okhotny Ryad, Pushkinskaya). Sunday: Holy Communion at 8:30 a.m., Sung Eucharist at 11 a.m. with creche for young children. Wednesday: Holy Communion is at 7 p.m., followed by a Bible study and Prayer Group. For more information about other services and the chaplaincy's many activities, contact Fr. Simon on 629-0990, the Chaplaincy Administrator (Tuesday-Thursday) on 629-9889 or visit www.standrewsmoscow.org.

MOSCOW PROTESTANT CHAPLAINCY at St. Andrew's Anglican Church, 8 Voznesensky Per., meets every Sunday at 3 p.m. Childcare is provided during the service and we also offer Sunday School. A youth group for 7th-12th graders meets following the service. We also have a number of mid-week programs. For more information, call 143-3562.

MOSCOW INTERNATIONAL SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH, 9/3 Nagatinskaya Ulitsa, (M. Nagatinskaya, Kolomenskaya). For more information, call 499-725-5398. Sabbath School begins on Saturday at 11 a.m., church service starts at noon. Services are held in English and Russian.

OUR LADY OF HOPE meets on Sundays in English and French at 12:15 p.m., at the Immaculate Conception Church, 27 Ul. Malaya Gruzinskaya (M. Barrikadnaya, Belorusskaya) and in English at 6 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays at 7/4 Kutuzovsky Prospekt, Korpus 5, Entrance 3, Flat 42 (M. Kievskaya). For more information, contact Fr. Michael at tel. 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. For more information, contact tel. 456-1280 or e-mail jw_moscow@yahoo.com.

The INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN ASSEMBLY is a contemporary English speaking church with a relevant message for today's society. Translation is available into Russian, Portuguese and other languages on request. There is a Sunday School for children from 4 to 12 years old and a nursery for those under 3 years old. Regular Sunday church service now starts at 11am on the third floor of 2A Shchyolkovskoye Shosse, M. Cherkizovskaya, Partizanskaya or Shchyolkovskaya. For more information, contact tel. 8-962-933-3581, e-mail icamoscow@yandex.ru or visit www.icamoscow.org.

MOSCOW GOOD NEWS CHURCH meets on Sundays at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. at Dom Kultury MIIT, 6 Novosushchyovsky Per. (M. Novoslobodskaya). Free buses from the metro.

FRIDAY NIGHT SHABBAT DINNER at the Marina Roshcha Synagogue (M. Savyolovskaya). To RSVP, please e-mail jewishmoscow@gmail.com, or for more information on Jewish programs and classes led in English, contact Rabbi Avraham Berkowitz at tel. 799-5751.

The MOSCOW CONGREGATION FOR PROGRESSIVE JUDAISM meets at the Moscow Jewish Community House, 14/1 Ul. Volochayevskaya (M. Baumanskaya, Ploshchad Ilicha). Friday night services in Russian and Hebrew start at 7 p.m. For details of festival services in English and Hebrew, please contact Rabbi Nelly Shulman at nashulmans@mail.ru.

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.)

The CHURCH of JESUS CHRIST of LATTER-DAY SAINTS is now holding worship services in Spanish at 1:30 p.m every Sunday. At 14 Ul. Yefremova, Office C, M. Sportivnaya. Or call 8-916-210-9077 and ask for Elder Salinas. Worship services are also held in English at 1:00 p.m. on Sundays at 6 Stromynsky Per., M. Sokolniki.

International Christian Fellowship, an evangelical church in the heart of Moscow, welcomes you to our English worship services on Sundays at 11:15 am at Bolshoi Nikolopeskovsky Pereulok, 12a. Call 507-06-35 for more info, or see www.icfmoscow.org.