Youth Music Tour of Russian Cities 2023

In 2018, they visited churches along the route from St. Petersburg to Krasnodar. In 2019, from Maykop to Yekaterinburg. In 2021, from Syktyvkar to the Pskov region. And this year they went from Yekaterinburg to Moscow via Perm, Kirovo-Chepetsk, Cheboksary, Nizhny Novgorod and Vladimir!

This time, inWorship music group from Orenburg and the singer-songwriter Madina participated with the team. In each city they ministered to youth and churches - every evening in each new city, they held a youth meeting where they worshiped, preached and simply shared the gospel and fellowshipped with other believers.

In our vast country, such trips and meetings are very necessary so that we can feel and practice our unity in Christ! This whole trip and church visit was designed to inspire and encourage the younger generation of our churches to live fully with Christ and motivate them to mission and service.

Here are Vitaly Zanin's impressions of the trip:

“In every city we met young people burning for God and His service. We were treated like family everywhere we went! In each city, we felt like a part of God's big Family - what we call the Brotherhood. During these days, we covered more than 2600 kilometers, met and served hundreds of our brothers and sisters, drank a few liters of coffee in order to have the strength to sing/fellowship with youth and also for late night walks. Probably logged thousands and thousands of steps walking with youth through the centers of their cities with prayer for our country’s spiritual revival."

Lord willing, the UECB Youth Dept team will continue to visit the cities and churches of Russia in the future, to encourage and inspire young people to live 100% for God!