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Orphan/Foster Family and Marriage Outreach, UDG, Fall 2024

Howard Frost — Wed, 07 May 2025 19:34:22 +0000

In Fall 2024, MMN partner Save The Orphans visited Moldova to meet with partner organizations and volunteers to assess on-going efforts and explore opportunities to improve and expand existing programs. Slavic and Ala continued to meet with churches to hold Marriage Courses and organized a family conference in the city of Comrat featuring Andrei Patz, a Russian-speaking pastor from Germany. UDG presented sessions for business training and counseling.

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Marriage Ministry, UDG Activities, Summer 2024

Howard Frost — Wed, 07 May 2025 19:32:16 +0000

In Summer 2024, Slavic and Alla reported on the popular and successful July tent ministry event held jointly for the villages of Krasnoarmeiskoe and Talaesti, southwest of Chisinau near the Romanian border. Slavic and Alla held sessions for men, women and children. During mid-August, UDG sponsored a four-day training session on Project Management, which Management Program Dean Igor Prisac conducted. As the current school year begins, UDG launches the new educational “Equipping Preachers Program,” which addresses the critical need for formal biblical and theological training among church leaders, particularly in rural areas.

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Marriage and Robotics Ministries, UDG updates, Spring 2024

Howard Frost — Wed, 07 May 2025 19:31:01 +0000

In Spring 2024, Marriage Ministry leaders Slavic and Alla Verenciuc presented The Marriage Course at the Bethel Church in Chisinau and at the main Baptist church in Tiraspol, Transdnester this spring and early summer. In those programs, the young couples talked about conflict resolution. Save the Orphans expanded its Computer and Robotics Camp,, into a weekly Computer Workshop for teens in the Chisinau area. Ion Gardarenco led this computer outreach where the Gospel message is included along with robotics training for young people. In May, UDG graduated a new class. It also provided a Trade School in Vatici, where students finished their training in spiritual formation and professional development in the field of auto mechanics, construction, computers, tailoring, and cooking. In June, UDG’s Business Development Institute hosted a specialized training on Sales and Negotiations.

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UDG, Orphan/Foster Children, Marriage Ministry Outreach, Fall 2023

Howard Frost — Wed, 07 May 2025 19:30:00 +0000

In Fall 2023, students went to a village in the Gagauzia region to serve the local church by leading the service, worship, and preaching God’s Word. Save the Orphans returned in December to orphanage Internat #3 in Chisinau. STO currently visits the orphanage twice a year, usually with the assistance of a team of students from UDG. This year the UDG students and friends from a Chisinau church engaged the children with a Christmas program involving music, Bible stories, skits, and other activities related to the celebration of Jesus’ birth. Slavic and Alla reported that they had been able to work more often on marriage activties in Rezina and Nova Zazuleni, as their refugee work had subsided somewhat.

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UDG, Marriage Outreach Activities, Late Summer 2023

Howard Frost — Wed, 07 May 2025 19:29:53 +0000

In Summer 2023 as the school said goodbye in June to its graduates, it warmly welcomed pastors, church planters, and youth leaders from Central Asia, the Caucasus, and Moldova to a special program on equipping church leaders. Couples from National Presbyterian Church (Washington, DC) and other churches led 30 families through an intensive, practical course on family ministry. Slavic and Alla have presented Marriage Courses include ones in Buzdugani in western Moldova and Rezina in northeast Moldova near the Transdnester border. Ukrainian refugees participated in the Rezina course.

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Caring for Orphans, Foster Children, and Impoverished Families, Summer 2023

Howard Frost — Wed, 07 May 2025 19:28:54 +0000

In June 2023, Save The Orphans founder Sylvia Mader returned to Moldova for the first time since the COVID outbreak and met with Serghei Mihailov, Executive Director of Beginning of Life (BOL), a Moldova-based Christian organization focusing on the problems facing adolescents deprived of parental care and orphans. BOL shields these children from human sex-trafficking while addressing their physical and emotional needs through therapy. Save the Orphans sponsored Computer and Robotics weekly training courses for orphans and poor children in Chisinau taught by Ion Gardarenco. STO partner Pastor Vasile of Isus Salvatorul in Soldanesti with Sylvia oversaw and participated in STO-funded food distributions for destitute families in three villages. Sylvia also visited STO’s sponsored foster family Elena Babei’s family of 13 children (four of whom she adopted) in Cricova.

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UDG graduation, summer ministry; Marriage Ministry courses, Early Summer 2023

Howard Frost — Wed, 07 May 2025 19:28:13 +0000

In early Summer 2023, UDG graduated a new class and prepared for missions outreach in Turkey. UDG also prepared for its June “Equipping Christian Leaders” conference. Slavic and Alla continued Marriage Ministry activities in two towns where they started courses last year — Falesti and New Zazuleni. After a Marriage Course in Falesti, area churches invited Slavic and Ala to do a Marriage Course for couples from “family-type” foster homes.

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Washington Welcomes Verenciuc Family; UDG Enters Second Term at UDG, Early 2023

Howard Frost — Wed, 07 May 2025 19:25:30 +0000

Slavic and his wife Ala traveled to Washington in early 2023 after enjoying Christmas with relatives in North Carolina to talk with supporters and friends about recent ministry work. While Slavic and Ala continued to encourage married couples with the Alpha Marriage Course and to hold evangelistic village tent meetings for couples and children, much of their work continued to be in support of suffering refugees from Ukraine. In January UDG’s academic team had its first meeting with the representatives of the European Council for Theological Education, responsible for UDG’s accreditation process.

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UDG, Outreach from Oak House, Refugee Care, Fall 2022

Howard Frost — Tue, 06 May 2025 19:27:00 +0000

In Fall 2023, UDG continued training students in Theology, Intercultural Studies and Mission, Social Work, and Business Management, but also since March 2022 has been housing 46 Ukrainian refugees on campus and another 180 at its center in Vatic. The young women at the Oak House Transitional Home (affiliated with Youth for Christ in Chisinau) are dedicated and have been consistently helping refugees suffering from the conflict in Ukraine. Since February 2022, Slavic and Alla have shifted from primarily family ministry to leading others in helping thousands of Ukraine refugees who have streamed into Moldova.

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Slavic Ministry Report, Fourth Quarter 2022

Howard Frost — Sat, 11 Feb 2023 17:45:00 +0000

Slavic and Alla prepared a presentation about their marriage ministry work among couples and about their assistance to refugees in the last part of 2022.

Fourth Quarter Ministry Report, Fall 2022 Download

Ministry work for marriage enrichment, refugees

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