THE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH GRACE

FOUNDATION HISTORY

CHURCH    ACTIVITIES

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.

If you want to learn more about the United Methodist Church in Russia go to its web-site:  http://umc-eurasia.ru/en/node/109

Hans Vaxby was born in 1944 in Sweden. That was his mother who took him to the Methodist congregation. In 1967 Hans Vaxby graduated from the Scandinavian Theology Seminary in Gothenburg. He served in Finland and in 1989 was elected to be the Bishop of Scandinavia and Baltic region countries. Since 2001 he served as the Bishop in Helsinki. In 1990s Hans Vaxby helped to establish and strengthen the congregations not only in Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia but in Russia too. He was elected to be the Bishop of Eurasian area in 2005.

Bishop Hans Vaxby was with a visit to our church in 2006.

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.