38 St Johns Rd, Meadowbank, в помещении St Chad‘s Church

Воскресная школа для детей

Мероприятия социального характера

Группы по изучению Библии в разных районах г. Окленда (Альфа курс)

Тел. 521 5013 (пастор Мартин)

Slavic Gospel Association was founded in 1934 by Rev. Peter Deyneka, who in 1914 had immigrated to the United States from the former Soviet republic of Belarus. A few years later, Rev. Deyneka came to saving faith in the Lord Jesus Christ during worship services at Chicago’s renowned Moody Memorial Church, which was pastored at the time by Dr. Paul Rader.

After his salvation and graduation from St. Paul Bible School in Minnesota, Peter eventually returned to Chicago with an overwhelming burden to see his homeland won to Christ. In 1925, he went back to his homeland and traveled extensively, sharing the Good News of salvation through Jesus Christ. While there, he established a strong relationship with the faithful churches of the Union of Evangelical Christians-Baptists (UECB), one of the largest and oldest Protestant denominations. But in the early 1930s, Stalin intensified persecution of the churches and Peter was forced to return to the United States. Knowing there were ways to help the churches from here, he and a small group of Chicago-area businessmen founded SGA in the back room of Hedstrom’s shoe store.

For many years, SGA covertly distributed millions of Bibles and Christian books into the hands of believers throughout the Soviet Union, while producing and broadcasting thousands of Christian radio programs. The mission also had an extensive ministry to Russian immigrants living in various countries throughout the world, helping them through training, teaching and church planting. With the fall of communism, the focus of SGA’s ministry is back in what is now known as the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).

Our mission has grown to become an international ministry with autonomous offices in Australia, Canada, England, France and New Zealand. We operate four regional ministry centers in the CIS, which are entirely staffed by nationals. Since 1997, SGA has been privileged to be the official representative for the Russian UECB in North America, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

Our main purpose is to help Bible-preaching churches in the lands of Russia make disciples for our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. We serve these churches primarily through the provision of Russian-language Bibles and Christian literature, through solid Bible training for pastors and layworkers, through the sponsorship of church-planting missionaries, and through the provision of humanitarian aid.