THE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH GRACE

FOUNDATION HISTORY

GRACE United Methodist Church was founded in 1999 in Saint- Petersburg and became a part of the Russian United Methodist Church

 in May 2001.

Rauza Landorf is GRACE church pastor from the moment of it's foundation.

From the moment of the church foundation two ministries became very important:

social MINISTRY and women's ministrY.

Most of the church comers are families with children and youth . Many children are from big families, families where one of the parents died, poor families and the orphans.

Our church was visited by the first Bishop of the Russian United Methodist Church Rudiger Minor in 2002.In 2002 our church founded the first in Russia

 Children's Methodist Center SPRING.

Before this ministry was started it had been blessed by the Bishop of the Russian United Methodist Church- Rudiger Minor.

UMC Grace Pastor - Rauza Landorf

In 2006 it was visited by the RUMC Bishop- Heins Vayksby. 

The UMC GRACE is a part of Saint- Petersburg district

and the member of the North- West Conference of Russia and Belarus.

The church members and church ministers take an active part both in the life of the district and the ministries of the United Methodist Church at the level of Russia and international level.

The character of our church ministry is between confessional- we take part in arrangements together with the Baptist, Orthodox, Catholic and Lutheran Churches.