This is how it is supposed to be in a church, the rich members help the poor members financially. But alas, in Nigeria the members give all their money to the pastors who would use it for themselves, and non of it will reach the poor members.

Our Nigerian pastors will never see this nor work towards being like this. They just so materialistic and forget the real essence of church

Please whenever you're chanced contribute to the secret offering of the church too. You sound too excited about receiving from the church.
The White are not quite social or friendly so the little kindness their church folks show is always special but in Africa we really don't need church before we can feel loved by the community.
Kindly take heed to know the difference between brotherly Christian love and pity, taking you out to get you jackets sounds like charity, in no time start putting money in the church too. Oyinbo life is scripted, they can be nice just by courtesy.
May God bless you.

Raskimonojendor:

Your American class mate is brave staying in Russia. I have a western country passport but will never travel to countries not friendly to the west before I get used for bargaining chip.


The dark haired pretty girl is American according to OP. She looks Indian (Punjabi).


Maybe North Korea since the country has good relationship with Russia..They might also be Siberian girls considering the location (North Russia). Native siberians look Korean/chinese.

North Korea and Christianity, how old are you? You're surprised an American lives in Russia, this is 2023, start using your empty head, life doesn't revolve around cnn, She's definitely from South Korea. Some Americans still live in Afghanistan sef, there are lots of Americans living in Russia, same with Koreans(North and South). Instead make you enjoy the beautiful thread, you carry politics of bitterness enter, oloriburuku like yu have never enter plane , in your life. Onikure

mushroomFarm:
First picture: Another picture with my American classmate.
Second picture: salads from church
Third picture: flag of Nigeria and some other countries flying high at Ammosov North Eastern federal university stadium, Yakutsk, Russia.

Your friend is Indian American.

What's the application processes to the university?

Is Russian visa easy to get?

I've watched many Yakusk videos on YouTube. How are you coping with the cold?

How we serve God truly is dependent on external factors.

Pastors are not left out.

Raskimonojendor:

Your American class mate is brave staying in Russia. I have a western country passport but will never travel to countries not friendly to the west before I get used for bargaining chip.


The dark haired pretty girl is American according to OP. She looks Indian (Punjabi).


Maybe North Korea since the country has good relationship with Russia..They might also be Siberian girls considering the location (North Russia). Native siberians look Korean/chinese.

Those countries are not as bad as the media make them look.

Gbadebo19:
Shey no be church be dis? Unlike naija church where we keep sowing endless seeds with no hope of reaping. When are we ever going to reap the fruits of the seeds we have been sowing for ages? Things get even worse when mandates are stolen. Just Negodu!!!

In heaven

Chimooooh e be like na de whole nairalanders de follow this thread oo

EnglandAmaka:


Your friend is Indian American.

What's the application processes to the university?

Is Russian visa easy to get?

I've watched many Yakusk videos on YouTube. How are you coping with the cold?

Is African American a a fake American His friend is an American. Whats the point of the Indian in front, to discredit or what? I don't understand

Tithes and offertory want finish us in Naija. At least we should be feeding our congregation every Sunday with some of that money

Just link me up with one Oyinbo Sister. My only prayer point to you.

1x2x3:


Those countries are not as bad as the media make them look.

kindly ignore that retaaaard, that's the side effect of watching too much cnn

In a certain third world nation, churchgoing involves preparing your funds to spend!


Some people even skip church when broke!

I will never understand the kind of Christianity you Africans practice!

mushroomFarm:
This is not my first time attending the church here in Yakutsk, Russia (world's coldest city where I study) but I have decided to share my experience about church service in Russia (Yakutsk) with you guys today.
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This city is 8 hours ahead of Nigeria which means we had concluded the service long before you guys woke up. But my university invited international students to a special program today so I couldn't post this until now.
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The service begins with songs.
Yakutians and Russians dance and wave flags.
For instance they wave the red flag to symbolize salvation, white to symbolize peace and the flag of Israel to show love for the birth place of Christ.
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After series of songs the bible is read and the junior pastor say a few things about the verse that is read.
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Then the senior pastor would preach the sermon.
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After which we hug each other now I love this part😘😘😘 and I try to avoid the men and hug the ladies...😍
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After this we go to the dinning room and eat.
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This is what I love most about the church here. There is nothing like offering and tithe. But we eat heavily every Sunday!
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The first time I arrived here in Yakutsk and went to church, there was this lady that came to me after service and asked me if I am not cold (I didn't have winter clothes yet) she told me even if I were not cold then, I would feel terribly cold when the winter gets tough. She took me to the stores in her car and bought me winter clothes, winter boots, mufflers, winter gloves, etc.
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This is the coldest city in the world and those clothes are needed for survival. Infact even with those clothes, at minus 63 degrees you must not stay outside for more than 30mins to an hour. You would be finished!! (So imagine not having those clothes)
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Her name is sister Natalia and she is so nice (and other people from church too) to the point that I was beginning to wonder if something else was not involved.
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One day I asked her why she does those things and how the church is able to finance feeding everyone every Sunday without taking offerings.
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She said some people in the church makes secret donations...to do those things. She said they are not rich, they are just reciprocation the love of Christ. She said a brother from church also give enough money to buy winter clothes for every new African student in the city! Those clothes cost about 250k in Nigerian money.
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I can say that 30% of our feeding here is financed by the church. They send us chickens and meat from time to time. Lots of cucumbers, vegetables, rice and potatoes...
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The church believes when people come to the presence of Christ, they should be physically blessed just like Christ fed his multitudes. They have up to 20 varieties of food and they often force us to pack food home. They say if we do not go with the food, they would get spoilt anyway. They make them in excess every Sunday so that no one would go without being filled.
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Sisters in church are very free with boys (including internationals like us) they hug us like we are truly brothers and the women often hug and give us kisses on the cheek (reciprocating the love of Christ)
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The preacher is a woman. She is Ukrainian. The church here does not preach hell at all. Quiet weird. They only talk about the love of Christ. Little wonder it really shows in everyone of them.
You could easily mistake the friendliness of everyone in church for 'love interests' they show that love tooooooo much.
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Women and men should leave their head uncovered in church. No one would send you out if you do otherwise. But that is the norm here.
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Korean girls in church wear very skimpy dresses. No one seems bothered about it.
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Below is a video of a choreography performed by some of the teenagers in church.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArvoUvgSbGc
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First picture is the preacher.
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Second picture is with me with my American classmate and a Korean girl(after church)
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Third picture is me with sister Natalia
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If you say Yakutsk is the coldest city in the world then, visit Greenland after your studies. Meanwhile, you've NOT told us the other experience in the Oza....

Broveens42:


Not just someone, a prieviledged entity payed for that. You have to be in comfortable system to be inspired. But the situation in nija is, you must give even when it's not convinient, so you can receive(fraud). There are a lot of africans who make heavy donations to special homes.

I guess you are right. And I shouldn't have used Africa for the illustration we have got givers and indigent people in every culture.

mushroomFarm:
First picture: second servings of food at church
Second picture: me in church (dining room) don't mind my hair. I can't cut it because it makes me over #200k in naira each month (as an advertisement actor or actor in short movie shoots. Oyinbos love afro hair. My cap messed it up though.)

Keep doing good over there.. you're blessed..

I don't know what you are doing in Russia. If they conscript you to the army now ,you will scream racism

emandman:
Please whenever you're chanced contribute to the secret offering of the church too. You sound too excited about receiving from the church.
The White are not quite social or friendly so the little kindness their church folks show is always special but in Africa we really don't need church before we can feel loved by the community.
Kindly take heed to know the difference between brotherly Christian love and pity, taking you out to get you jackets sounds like charity, in no time start putting money in the church too. Oyinbo life is scripted, they can be nice just by courtesy.
May God bless you.

You trying to say the nice lady saw the dude as some kind of charity case ??

I had similar experience in Renfrewshire,Scotland.
Everythings is like that because nobody thinks about super wealth.

Daddy, what are you looking for in university? I hope it's a masters or doctorate you're studying for because I have bad news if it's an undergrad course you went to seek. You looked younger in the other video. These pictures exposed your age.

My brother didn't lie when he said Asians were everywhere. Na wa. Eight hours. It's not so long of a difference. Say the church service was six in the morning, I'd be fully awake by ten p.m. here trying to plan moves for the next day.

Genesis14:
Always enjoy your pictorials, thanks for sharing

The guy fit run documentary oo. Good writer pictorial representation

Wow they are showing God’s love ❤️ here

After you have make a lot of friends try to teach them your dialect

Russian live afei and so much!

Meditation01:
Meditation is the freeing of ourselves from all mental states and concepts of self.But it really begins with a focus,with a restraining of the life force or the life energy.So you look at your object of concentration for,say,45 minutes.Put a watch there,take out a clock,time yourself.Then,after you have done it for,let's say,45 minutes,if your time period is half an hour,and you've really tried just to see that one thing,to look at it-you can blink,you can shift your position a little bit if you need to-but then after you've done it for half your meditation,close your eyes and now do the same thing focusing on one of the three chakras,either the navel center,around the navel;the median center,which is in the center of the chest around the heart,or the third eye,which is between the eyebrows and a little bit above.
I recommend that you focus on these three centers in rotation.So Monday morning,do your navel center;Tuesday,the center of the chest;Wednesday,the third eye,which is between the eyebrows and a little bit above.

yogi is not for everyone and some people don’t even know when to meditate 🧘‍♀️ in a country as noisy as Nigeria 🇳🇬 ...if you can’t shift your concentration to one thing as stated you keep dragging yourself to your daily activities which is very bad when meditating 🧘‍♂️


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So war no reach that side?

mushroomFarm:
First picture: Another picture with my American classmate.
Second picture: salads from church
Third picture: flag of Nigeria and some other countries flying high at Ammosov North Eastern federal university stadium, Yakutsk, .

I can't see OdUduWa republic flag there

After you have make a lot of friends try to teach them your dialect

Russian live afei and so much!

Make Nigerians proud of you

Johnn74:

You are not fighting war? 🙄😁

Hahaha.Dont mind me o.am typing fron another russian city in core Eastern Europe, just 2hrs ahead of nigeria. Gmt +3 zone.

Russia has over 10 time zones. And time zones in Siberian parts of Russia are farthest. And Siberian Russia like Yakutsk are too cold.
Bruh wetin u find go Siberian Russia sef?

Russia's most populated & warmest cities are in ( East) Europe.
Eastern europe part of Ru rocks. Viz st petersburg; Moscow; Tartastan republic with sweet cities like Kazan, etc all in Eastern europe .
This summer, Try visit Russia's warmest city SOCHI ; also the longest city in Europe . Make u update post us. It has similar temperatire ranges with NICE, FRANCE🇫🇷

You took more time painting your words than arranging your grammar.

Good for them.