Soviet Evangelicals Since World War II, Walter Sawatsky, 1981

s they have gained much in knowledge. They have developed experience in ecumenical dialo ue which has also led to closer ecumenical links with the Russian ithodes Church Where once Orthodox priests were responsible for sending Baptists t prison, they now share annual ecumenical services in the Moreen Be dit church and a Russian Orthodox clergyman shares chairmanship duties ith Bychkov on one of the WCC commissions. Through their many travel some of the leaders have gained a personal vision of world needs See _ _Whereas North American evangelicals spend large saris of mone visiting mission projects around the world, negotiating develo eae projects, and financing the shipping of relief, Soviet evangelicals have bee unable to contribute significantly. They have not been involved in rar mission, although there is a growing sense of mission responsibility to Soviet society.86 They have been prevented from contributing their goodwill meee oe funds for relief work in the Third World. Thus far ae ee ee any contribution that they have made to theological and biblical The AUCECB has also been able to utilize its wide contacts abroad j order to strengthen the significance of its union versus other Soviet evan I icals who have no foreign partners. True, they have helped other Souict evangelicals establish links with fellow believers abroad, but the tend : to absorb other evangelicals makes reliance on the AUCECB sewn: risky. These unaffiliated Soviet evangelicals have, however, recej ‘d considerable support from an astounding variety of mission or funienon. : Notes to Chapter 13 1. I. S. Prokhanov was a vice-president, 1911-28. Kahle, pp. 10-12. 2. See above, chapter 3, pp. 91-92 : pws files, Washington (J. H. Rushbrooke), 5. Ibid. 6. BY, 1/47, p. 17. . BWA files, Washington (J. H. Rushbrook . ie aunt 7. See above, p. 121f. mites f 5, O- , p. 112. Cf 2/54, pp. 53-57. 10. BY, 3-4/54, p. 110. (een eT 386 Soviet Evangelicals Since World War Il 11. See above, chapter -4, p. 124. 12. They were: Jacob Zhidkov, Alexander Karev, N. A. Levindanto, A. L. Andreev, I. G. Ivanov, A. I. Mitskevich, F. R. Astakhov, and E. N. Raevski (BV 5/ 55, p. 6). Half the issue was devoted to this trip. 13. oe with Robert Denny, November 1976, and BWA files (Russia trip, 1956). 14. BV, 3-4/56, p. 23. The Russians reported on the trip with great detail. Delegates were: Jacob Zhidkov, Alexander Karev, I. G. Ivanov, N. A. Levindanto, and Klaudia Tyrtova. 15. Baptist members of the delegation were A. L. Andreev and A. N. Karpov (Moscow presbyter and AUCECB member). 16. BV, 5/57, p. 52 17. BV, 6/63, p. 17. The attendance of Jacob Zhidkov, Alexander Karev, I. G. Ivanov, A. I. Mitskevich, and P. A. Parchevskii at the 1958 meeting was not reported at that time. 18. BV, 1/63, p. 72. Zhidkov had just returned from a year of study at McMaster Univ