Russia's
teenagers and young adults are crying out for something real. They have inherited
a society that is reaping the fruit of rejecting God. While trying to find reality,
truth, love, happiness and escape from their problems, many in the young generation
are dredging themselves through a depressing social, economic and political
disaster, where a month's wages will usually put less than $100 in their pocket.
Many of Russia's young people come from broken homes, where alcohol, drugs, sexual and physical abuse are the norm. They are peering into a future which looks every bit as hopeless as the past. This has caused a cry from within many of the young generation that there must be more to life than what so depressingly clings to them. StreetCry offers these young seekers real life and heart-changing answers, pointing them toward a future of hope and victory in the resurrection power and love of Jesus Christ. Jesus is presented to them the way He really is: loving, caring and compassionate, with the power and ability to bring about positive long lasting change!
The atmosphere of StreetCry is non-religious, and as powerfully charged as a stick of dynamite. The believers are lovingly militant in their faith; meeting daily to pray, study the Word of God, and go about their Father's business in evangelizing the lost and effectively praying for the deliverance of those caught in sin. Many of the staff and students at StreetCry are former drug addicts, prostitutes, criminals, runaways, alcoholics and simply disappointed people. God is miraculously healing and delivering young people from lives of addiction and sin. Others are graduates of higher education in fields such as biology, music, literature, education, foreign languages, or sound engineering. They all burn within with a passionate, contagious faith that their generation and nation WILL be reached with the saving power of Jesus Christ.
Today's Russia offers a variety of destructive options to the young generation. Our ministry is based in St. Petersburg, a city of 5.5 million people which is the youth, art, music, drug and counterculture capital of Russia and where two revolutions were staged. There is a thriving importation of western vices, including pornography, drugs and a variety of destructive music and deadly alternative lifestyles.
While Christianity flooded into the country in the early
'90s, so did all of Satan's alternatives. And while foreign Christians sent
a 
considerable
amount of personnel, prayer, and finances to Russia at the start of the '90s,
the enthusiasm peaked and subsided, while those who promoted the gospels of
materialism, drugs and pornography only increased their efforts. We now see
the tragic results of Satan's onslaughts for the hearts and minds of Russia's
youth.
Statistics show that 70% of Russia's young people between the ages of 15 and 25 are regularly using drugs, and an estimated 850,000 heroin addicts live in the St. Petersburg and Moscow regions alone - many in their teens. Abortion accompanied by permanent injuries or death to the mother are also on the rise. Venereal disease runs at a rate of 60 times higher than in the United States. HIV, AIDS and hepatitis are skyrocketing out of control. They need an alternative to the harmful options they have been presented with, and God has supplied one: faith in His Son!
StreetCry
is a Christ-centered evangelistic, teaching, music, worship, missions and prophetic
ministry, reaching out to Russia's unsaved and backslidden young generation.
We are dedicated to seeing youth saved and delivered at any cost. We are deeply
sure that the Gospel is the power of God unto salvation. Creative means of evangelism
include:
Street Cry's mandate for the future includes expanding
the ministry throughout the cou
ntry,
as well as reaching more young people through the mass media of radio, television,
newspaper and magazines. Satan has captured them through these communication
vehicles, and God has shown us that it is through these avenues that the Holy
Spirit will also recapture many. In 2002 we established our own rehab center,
apart from our previous and ongoing ministry of seeing addicts instantly healed,
delivered and becoming active in the body of Christ. In 2001 our music and production
studio began operation. It is open to Russian worship and evangelism teams from
around the country to come and record. We have also expanded our Bible school/School
of worship facility to hold the increasing numbers of students.
We are a ministry concerned with results and not just theory. A transformed life is precious in the sight of God, and well worth committing full attention to. Seeing people repent and get baptized in the Holy Spirit, water baptized, and delivered from past habits of sin; we plug them into the Kingdom of God's new life of daily prayer, Bible study, and proclaiming the gospel to others. We are committed to "equipping the saints for works of service" (Eph.4:12).
Christians are not born into the Kingdom of God to sit as spectators while a few committed people run a church. The Biblical mandate is to equip all of God's people for service, and by His grace we are trying to do that. Anything of eternal value in ministry is a result of fervent prayer. That is why much time is devoted to individual and corporate prayer and to the development of strong prayer habits. Intercessory prayer for the youth, cities and nation are important aspects of our work.
We are committed to unity of spirit in the body of Christ. We are committed to the restoration and full functioning of all the offices and gifts within the body of Christ, including the apostolic and prophetic. Through books, conferences and other means, we are committed to making available anointed and effective teachings from leaders in the worldwide body of Christ. We are committed to the restoration of worship to its very high place of priority. We believe that worship in spirit and truth is a key to an open heaven and seeing the end-time harvest reaped.
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