Pray for the People of Volgograd!

You may be more familiar with the former name of Volgograd... Stalingrad. The city is about 500 miles south of Moscow, in between Ukraine and Kazakhstan where Russia "bottle-necks" in the southwest.

Situated, along the west bank of the Volga river, Volgograd is one of the longest, thinnest cities in Europe. During World War II, this city on the Volga was a major target of Hitler’s invasion. The Battle of Stalingrad is still considered to be one of the decisive military engagements of world history.

An entire generation has passed since the Russian peoples of this "Hero City" held the Nazis at Russia’s southern gate, but the situation today is no less urgent. Years of a Godless, communist regime have left the one million people of Volgograd hopeless. [more]

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October 15, 2004
Not to long ago, Beslan, Russia was attacked by terrorists. At a school in Beslan, there was a 53-hour stand off that took the lives of 328 hostages; half of whom were children. [more]

October 12, 2004
After several meetings, and constant prayer, God has blessed our missionaries with the opportunity to use this for His glory!!!! WE HAVE TOUCHDOWN!!!!! The Band Program is up and running! [more]

In this first edition of "Volgograd at a Glance", we will take a look at the Volgograd Tractory Factory.

The first tractor came off the assembly line in 1930, when it was still called the Stalingrad Tractor Factory. By the time they celebrated their 10-year anniversary in 1940, they had produced over 200,000 tractors (over half of the tractors in the USSR at that time.) During the war, the factory was converted, workers were given rudimentary military training, and the factory began producing T-34 tanks for the Red Army. [more]