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| Thursday, September 04, 2008
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Community Bulletin Board04 September 2008
The MOSCOW ORATORIO SOCIETY will begin rehearsals (Wednesday evenings) in September for a holiday concert of Handel's Messiah and other seasonal music. All voice parts welcome. Great chance to join a group of singers from Russia and 15 other countries. Write carol@irex.ru or visit www.moscoworatorio.com 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 Sporri-Hedberg at +7 (903) 112 8831. The International Women's Club hosts a Working Women's Coffee on the first Saturday of every month from 11:00 – 13:00 at Le Pain Quotidien, Novinsky Boulevard, Bldg. 7. Come and connect with other working women, in particular, expatriates, in a friendly, relaxed environment. Newcomer's welcome! Please RSVP to IWCMoscow@yahoo.com The RGGU AMERICAN CENTER needs donations: Don't throw away stuff you can't take back home. Instead, donate it to RGGU's Russian-American Academic Center for American Studies. We need books, magazines, CDs. For more information, contact Lauren or Lena at tel. 250-6862 or e-mail: amcenter@rsuh.ru. 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 before, please contact Nick Rees at nickrees99@yahoo.com. The RUSSIAN INDIAN HERITAGE ACADEMY invites all to attend various courses, weekend seminars and practical individual yoga and meditation sessions for combating psychosomatic problems related to stress, hypertension, diabetes and asthma. For more information, e-mail RIHA@indorussia.ru or visit www.indorussia.ru. The CINEMA CLUB at the Italian Cultural Institute regularly show the best contemporary Italian movies. This is a wonderful chance to see films unavailable in Russia. The films are introduced by native speakers and followed by discussions. Entrance is free. For more information and the program, contact e-mail cultura.iicmosca@esteri.it or visit www.iicmosca.esteri.it. 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. The WOMEN'S FOOTBALL CLUB is open to all women who are ready to have fun playing a bit of unprofessional football every Sunday from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. near Aeroport metro station. For more information, contact Natalie at jennylynn@mail.ru. Religious ServicesST. 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 http://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 icfmoscow.org http://icfmoscow.org. |
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