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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]