Creative need-meeting and interest-serving outreach and service
In large cities we must strive to quickly multiply our contact with people who need Christ and to establish a credibility for the Evangelical church that is rooted in service. Therefore we are using need-meeting and interest-serving ministries such as family services, sexual abstinence presentations in schools, counseling for post-abortive women and for substance abuse, rehabilitation work with addicts, as well as sports camps, English language instruction, healthy living courses and handicraft hobbies. Several of these ministries have been begun in Moscow in conjunction with other missions and organizations. Plans have been laid for the establishment of community centers offering these types of services in St. Petersburg and Ekaterinburg. Most of this work is carried out by our missionary teams, described above under church planting. In Moscow, Shelly Crouch also spends half her time running the Women 4 Women ministry, which addresses a variety of common needs among girls and women.
