I. Baptisms:        5 II. Congregation established: The Church of Christ @ Miral III. Special Activities: 1.      House blessing for temporary meeting place of the Church of Christ @ Miral 2.     First worship service @ Miral Church of Christ on June 14, 2009 3.      Gospel presentation @ Ray of Hope Village IV. Special fellowship attended -- Flume Church of Christ 20th Anniversary celebration V. Special Celebration attended; ARM 6th Anniversary and Thanksgiving Celebration held at Ray of Hope Village, Maa, Davao City. VI. Service Conducted: 1.      Baptism of Estremos family 2.      Memorial service for Julieto Alocelja 3.      General Cleaning for the new meeting place of worship. VII. Donations Received: 1.      26 boxes of large print Bibles from LBW, INC. 2.      2 packs religious materials and minister’s minutes 3.      153 pcs. Used clothes VIII. Donations rendered: 1.      Extension wire given to Miral Church of Christ 2.      16 capsules, 11 antibiotic tablets given to Salvador Ambatang 3.      2x3 Tarpaulin given to bereaved family of Julieto Alocelja 4.      Acoustic guitar, communion tray and tarpaulin given to Miral Church of Christ 5.      Acoustic guitar given to Dalamuan Church of Christ 6.      3 bamboo benches and door jam given to Miral Church of Christ 7.      Bass guitar given to Fatima Church 8.      Acoustic guitar given to Tacul Church of Christ IX. Religious Materials given: 1.      2 packs reading materials 2.      1 bible 3.      37 large print, 12 packs outline sermon 4.      4 new testament bibles 5.      1 book X. Gifts given: 1. plastic flower given to Fely Estremos 2. 65 pcs. Used clothes given to Purok Riverside 3. 2 ARM t shirts given to Ray of Hope Village 4. 2 ARM t shirts given to Pinero Family 5. Acoustic guitar given to Dante Tawi 6. 4 pcs. Used clothes given to Romeo Ebale 7. 4 pcs. Used clothes given to Cerilo Alo 8. 36 pcs. Assorted used clothes to Bacungan Church of Christ 9. Notebooks given to Children of the Church of Christ at Digos

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This is my brief report for July 2009.

1. IMMERSIONS. One of the leaders of the Krasnodar swastika-worshipping pagans had a brain insult. With this the God Almighty turned the man to Christ. We immersed the heathen leader and received from him the secret lists of the names of those persons, whom the gentiles thought to be “the enemies of Russia” and whom they “convicted to the capital punishment."

2. PRISONS. The DOM ARM ministers had this month 12 visits to different penitentiary institutions. We spread there about 100 items of clothes, as humanitarian donations.

The non-adult convicts twice in a short time ran away from the special camp in Pereyaslovskaya village of the Bryukhovetsk district of the Krasnodar Territory (150 km N from Krasnodar): 19 boys ran away on 27.06.2009 and 6 girls ran away on 06.07.2009.

The Russian Federal TV declared in July, that the Government had been actively restoring the industry in prison camps (i.e. the slave labor), as the “anti-crisis measure” because labor was very cheap and profitable in prisons!

The Krasnodar Territory ombudsman Kozitskiy published the data, that in 2008, more, than 155,000 persons were incarcerated in the police directorates during the temporary police detention. This figure means, that more, than 3% of the Krasnodar Territory population were in the police detention. Except them, there were about 25,000 persons, convicted by courts, and about 40,000 arrested by courts for investigation in Krasnodar Territory.

3. MISSION  TRIPS. Bro Andrew Novosyolov, immersed by me in DOM ARM, came to Geneva (Switzerland) and took part in the so called “Geneva  in Flames” – a number of events, dedicated to the 500-year anniversary of John Calvin, born on 10.07.1509. Novosyolov had spent about 3 years in Strasbourg (France) and then went to Geneva (without any Russian or French official document, only with the DOM ARM certificate, that he had been persecuted in Russia on Religious basis and could be murdered, if returned to Russia). Andrew also had no financial resource. But Jesus helped him to take part in the biggest European Evangelical event of 2009!

4. MEDITATIONS. The celebrations of the USA Independence Day on 04.07.2009 made me have a special sermon, in which I developed the idea, that the “Declaration of Independence” was a powerful theological document. “All men are created equal. They are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness”, etc. Thus, the human rights are the Spiritual gift of the Creator! This idea is very important for working with numerous kinds of “human rights activists”, “rights defenders”, etc. Usually these people say, they are “agnostics”. I say to them: “Read the Declaration of Independence – the human rights were endowed by the Creator! Thus you worship “the unknown God” (in Greek: “agnostoo theoo”). Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you” (Acts, 17:23)”. This method of apostle Paul in the combination with the Declaration of Independence is the powerful approach to convert the human rights activists. And many of them were immersed in DOM ARM.

5. DIVINE  ACTION. The Department of Education and Science of the Krasnodar Territory Governor Administration with the special official letter invited me to have the talks with the chief of its’ branch for the scientific and technical policy Mr.. V.P. Krylov. Such talks took place on 09.07.2009. For ten years this Department did not want to contact me, declaring me to be “the Religious fanatic”. But now the authorities of Russia understood the very sharp situation with a very low level of the science and technology development in this country. Thus the state authorities made the territorial Department contact me to learn, if my international Christian connections could help to improve the situation.

For many years the Russian authorities have been “like the deaf adders” (Ps., 58:4). But the God Almighty has “broken their teeth” (Ps., 58:6) and made them bow in front of the Christ. This is the Divine Action, indeed.

6. YOUTH  MINISTRY. The “NIKA” Ministry in July organized the Christian youth club in the town Slavyansk-on-Kuban (the district center in Krasnodar Territory, 70 km W from Krasnodar).

7. PUBLIC  RELATIONS. On 03.07.2009 I took part in the inauguration of the new Krasnodar “Rotary” club President Mr.. V. Martyshin. He personally invited me to come, saying, he was interested very much in the prison ministry and in DOM ARM activity.

On 22.07.2009 I met in Krasnodar with Mr.. N. Bliznakov – the chief of the Bolgarian NCO – NGO national net against corruption.

On 04.07.2009 my sister and DOM ARM Moscow representative Nathaly Koff took part in the official party to celebrate the US Independence Day at the “Spaso-house” (the Moscow residence of the US Ambassador in Russia) and had a hand-shake with the Ambassador.

On 07.07.2009 the US President Obama was in Moscow and met the leaders of the opposition political parties. For the first time to such a meeting one of the co-chairmen of the “Right Case” party – L. Gozman – was invited. I am one of the members of the founding Congress of this party (16.11.2008), which embraced the socially active people with the Christian Democratic ideas.

On 02.07.2009 bro Andrew Novosyolov, being in Geneva, had a meeting with Peter Kenney – the editor of the International Journal “ENI” (Ecumenical News International). Andrew informed Kenney about the situation with Religious Freedoms in Russia and about the DOM ARM activity.

On 25.07.2009 I and some other members of our chaplaincy took part in the public picket to defend the Religious Freedoms. It took place in the centre of Krasnodar city – in the Krasnaya street in 200 m from the building of the territorial Legislature.

8. REPRESSIONS. During the night from 01.07.2009 to 02.07.2009 the unknown people again were throwing the stones into our yard and house. During the night from 20.07.2009 to 21.07.2009 the unknown man tried to crawl over our fence into the yard and was stopped, when we – by chance – noticed him.

The act of an information war took place in July: the article about me “Alyoshin Nikolay Evgenievich” (in Rus.) in the internet encyclopedia “Wikipedia” was destroyed by the unknown persons.

On 04.07.2009 the daughter of bro L. Burlakov (one of the members of our chaplaincy, immersed by me) – Anna Burlakova, who was the photo-correspondent of the “Kuban News” newspaper – was not permitted to be among the correspondents to follow the visit of the prime-minister to the Krasnodar Territory.

On 01.07.2009 the Krasnodar Territory court confirmed the conviction of two nephews of sheikh Hassan Gurji-ogly; but the Religious and human rights activists (including me and Hassan) and even the official advocates were not let be present in the court room during the session. It is the brutal violation of the right for defense (both in Russian and international law).

9. SUPPORT. We received the June ARM support through “We-Go” system of bro Max Goins OK. We received a box from our Moscow branch (N. Koff) with clothes, collected by the women of Moscow Western Embassies, to spread among the convicts. The letters, e-mails and phone calls of support came also from Rod Farthing, N. Plutenko, R. Ladeinde (USA); Dr. G. Leiser (Germany); E. Novozhilow (Poland); A. Hamzin (Crimea, Ukraine); A. Novosyolov (Switzerland). We sent to A. Novosyolov a special letter, asking the Geneva transport company to let him use the public city transport free of charge. This document, issued by me, as the DOM ARM chaplain, let bro Novosyolov, who has a very poor financial situation, to move all over Geneva.

DOM ARM chaplain  www.ARM.org
Nicholas E. Alyoshin