Synodal Department for Church Charity and Social Service

Synodal Department for Church Charity and Social Service

OCBSS

Jurisdiction: Russian Orthodox Church

Year founded:
1991
Place:
Moscow, Russia
Leaders: Panteleimon (Shatov), ​​Sergius (Fomin) Members of the organization: Panteleimon (Shatov), ​​Sergius (Fomin) Directions:
social Christianity, Church reform
of the Organization

OCBSS

(January 31, 1991) - Synodal Department of the Moscow Patriarchate. Center for the reform of the Russian Orthodox Church in the direction of social Christianity.

The main goals and objectives in the work of the Synodal Department for Church Charity and Social Service are:

• Coordination and assistance in the work of church social initiatives in all dioceses;
• Development and implementation of effective methods of assistance to all categories of people in need;
• Organization of exchange of experience and training of church social workers, as well as interfaith exchange of experience;
• Organization of effective cooperation with government agencies at all levels, as well as with public organizations and business structures;
• Popularization of the idea of ​​the need for personal participation in acts of mercy, drawing attention to the needs of the disadvantaged, attracting a wide range of people and organizations to the field of charity;
• Creation of a church-wide mass volunteer charity movement;
• Creation of church-wide programs for attracting massive private donations for social projects of the Church.

structure

Chairman

Bishop of Orekhovo-Zuevsky Panteleimon
The Synodal Department for Church Charity and Social Service of the Russian Orthodox Church is headed by Bishop. Panteleimon (Shatov)[1].

The structure of the Synodal Department for Charity and Social Service operates coordination centers and divisions responsible for various areas of work.

• Coordination Center for Combating Alcoholism and Promoting Sobriety
• Homeless Assistance Coordination Center
• Society of Orthodox Doctors
• Coordination Center for Combating Drug Addiction
• Coordination Center for Work with the Deaf, Deafblind and Hard of Hearing
• Church Emergency Relief Team
• Legal service of the Synodal Department for Charity

areas of work

• help for orphans
• assistance to disabled people

With the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus', in 2014, a Coordination Center for working with the deaf, deaf-blind and hard of hearing was created at the Synodal Department for Charity. At the same time, a cooperation agreement was signed with the All-Russian Society of the Deaf. Currently, 62 Orthodox churches and communities in Russia are working with deaf and deaf-blind people. Courses are regularly held to train clergy, social workers and volunteers to work with the deaf, deaf-blind and hard of hearing. Classes are taught by leading teachers and specialists of the Educational and Methodological Center of the All-Russian Society of the Deaf.

Since 2015, the Synodal Department has been conducting courses for priests and laity working with the deaf and hard of hearing. In May and October, such courses were held in Tomsk[2], in June-July - in Kursk[3], in September - in Kirov[4], in November - in Moscow[5]. In 2021, sign language training courses were held from February to May in Moscow[6]. In March 2021, sign language training courses will be held in Nizhny Novgorod.

The Synodal Department has published several thematic teaching aids:

“100 phrases in Russian sign language: a phrasebook for clergy”, “Disabled people in the temple: helping people with hearing and vision problems”, “How to make a temple accessible to everyone: technical standards and architectural solutions” and others.

• helping the homeless

Auto rally to help the homeless “Nadezhda” (2014)
Together with the charitable foundation “Helper and Patron”, the Synodal Department for Church Charity and Social Service annually organizes the “Nadezhda” automobile rally.

• help for alcoholics

In 2014, the Holy Synod adopted the Concept for the promotion of sobriety and the prevention of alcoholism. More than 230 Orthodox organizations, rehabilitation centers and parishes help alcohol addicts and their relatives in Russia. In total, there are about 100 temperance societies and brotherhoods operating in the Church.

The Orthodox Church regularly organizes conferences for clergy and laity on the rehabilitation of alcoholics. In 2014, the tradition of the annual celebration of Temperance Day on September 11, the day of the Beheading of the Prophet John the Baptist, was resumed. Since 2015, the Church’s initiative to celebrate Sobriety Day has been supported by the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation. On this day, intense prayers are held in churches for deliverance from the disease of drunkenness; in the regions of the country, both church and secular events and events are held that promote a healthy lifestyle and cessation of alcohol addiction.

Structures such as church primary reception centers for alcoholics, rehabilitation centers, social hotels, and “homes of hard work” are being developed. A Coordination Center for Combating Alcoholism and Promoting Sobriety has been created.

The Synodal Department for Church Charity and Social Service operates the John the Baptist Brotherhood “Temperance”, which interacts with temperance societies from other dioceses and regions. Every year the brotherhood holds a gathering of Orthodox teetotalers at Lake Uveldy in the Chelyabinsk region.

• assistance to single mothers and pregnant women
• help for drug addicts
• emergency assistance
• legal assistance to those in need
• food aid*
• volunteer service
• Moscow Orthodox Service "Mercy"

Synodal Department for Charity

The social ministry of the Church today is more than 4,500 church social services and initiatives in Russia and other countries.

You can get acquainted with the activities of the Department over 30 years in booklets that were published in May 2021.

The Synodal Department for Church Charity and Social Service of the Moscow Patriarchate was established by a decision of the Holy Synod on January 31, 1991. The department coordinates and assists in the work of church social initiatives in all dioceses, develops and implements effective methods of helping those in need, organizes the exchange of experience and training of church social workers.

One example of the development of the Church’s social ministry is helping women in crisis situations. Until 2011, there was only one church-based shelter in Russia for pregnant women and women in crisis. As of December 2021, there are 77 such centers in Russia, with several new shelters opening every year.

On May 1, 2021, on the day of the Holy Resurrection of Christ, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill visited the Moscow crisis Orthodox help service “Mercy”

Many social projects are developed as models, first in Moscow, and then spread to the regions. Thus, in Moscow, with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill, the Orthodox help service “Mercy” operates, which unites 26 social projects to help people. Many initiatives of the Mercy service are a model for subsequent replication of similar social projects throughout the country.

Help for people with disabilities

There are over 400 Orthodox organizations in Russia that help children and adults with disabilities.

The church is involved in creating assisted living projects for people with disabilities. They are in Penza, Tyumen, Leningrad, and Ivanovo regions.

Opening of the third house of the social-church assisted living project “New Shores” in Penza. Author of the photo: Eleonora Mekshina

Today, 75 Orthodox churches in 48 metropolises are working with deaf and hard of hearing people. A Coordination Center for working with deaf, deafblind and hard of hearing people has been created within the structure of the Synodal Department. The department regularly organizes courses to train clergy, social workers and volunteers to work with the deaf, deaf-blind and hard of hearing. Classes are taught by leading teachers and specialists of the Educational and Methodological Center of the All-Russian Society of the Deaf.

Help the homeless

In Russia, with the participation of the Church, 94 shelters for the homeless have been opened, 18 mercy buses are operating - mobile aid stations for the homeless, and more than 450 charity canteens.

On the territory of the Synodal Department for Charity and Social Service, the “Hangar of Salvation” was organized - a project of the Orthodox help service “Mercy”, where the homeless can eat, receive clothing and assistance in restoring documents and purchasing tickets home.

Providing first aid to homeless people at the Rescue Hangar

An experimental project for the rehabilitation of homeless people is being implemented on the basis of the Rescue Hangar of the Mercy service.

Since 2013, an annual competition named after Nadezhda Monetova has been held. Its task is to identify and encourage people who successfully work for the benefit of those who have lost their homes.

Help for alcoholics

As of November 2021, more than 600 Orthodox organizations and projects help alcohol addicts and their relatives overcome addiction in Russia.

The Synodal Department regularly organizes conferences for clergy and laity on the rehabilitation of alcoholics.

Press conference at TASS in 2015 dedicated to Sobriety Day on September 11

In 2014, the tradition of the annual celebration of Temperance Day on September 11, the day of the Beheading of the Prophet John the Baptist, was resumed. Since 2015, the Church’s initiative to celebrate Sobriety Day has been supported by the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation. On this day, intense prayers are held in churches for deliverance from the disease of drunkenness; in the regions of the country, both church and secular events and events are held that promote a healthy lifestyle and cessation of alcohol addiction.

Structures such as church primary reception centers for alcoholics, rehabilitation centers, and social hotels are being developed. A Coordination Center for Combating Alcoholism and Promoting Sobriety has been created. The Synodal Department operates the John the Baptist Brotherhood “Temperance”, which interacts with temperance societies from other dioceses and regions.

Helping women in crisis

In Russia, as of December 2021, 77 church shelters have been opened for pregnant women and women with children who find themselves in difficult life situations. There are also 221 humanitarian aid centers that accept and distribute things among large families and single mothers. Assistance is provided free of charge, regardless of citizenship and religion.

With the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill, in 2016 and 2018, on Children’s Day, fundraisers were held in all Russian churches to prevent abortions and help women in crisis situations. In 2021, the funds raised (39 million rubles) were used to open 103 humanitarian aid centers in 89 dioceses. In 2021, the funds raised (38 million rubles) were used to open 13 new shelters for mothers, 32 humanitarian aid centers and 25 other projects to help women in crisis situations - consulting, legal, psychological assistance, helplines. 54 women's assistance projects were able to expand their activities.

In 2012, in Moscow, in one of the premises of the Synodal Department for Charity, “House for Mom” was opened - a project of the Orthodox help service “Mercy”. It consists of a shelter and a counseling center. For each ward of the center, an individual plan for overcoming a crisis situation is developed: social workers, lawyers and other specialists at “Home for Mom” help women make peace with their relatives or with the child’s father, restore documents, solve a housing problem, and get a specialty.

At the “House for Mom” you can get children’s clothes, medicines, strollers, cribs and other necessary things for free. Since 2015, the Center has been offering certified courses in hairdressing, manicure, floristry and accounting. As of November 2021, 300 mothers and 300 children received shelter in the “House for Mom,” of which 92 children were born while the mothers were living in the center. In addition, more than 11,000 women received social, legal, and humanitarian assistance. “House for Mom” is a model project for other regions: the experience of its work is being replicated throughout the country.

Also, together with volunteers of the all-Russian charity program “Save Life,” anti-abortion counseling is provided in antenatal clinics. Over 6 years of work, we managed to save the lives of more than 14,500 children.

Help for drug addicts

As of June 2021, there are 56 centers for the main period of rehabilitation, 5 preparatory and motivational centers, and 19 resocialization centers in Russia. There are 12 outpatient programs, 74 Orthodox support groups for addicts and codependents, and 65 counseling centers.

An interactive database of rehabilitation centers has been created. A search engine is available on the website protivnarko.ru, with which you can choose a center yourself. There is also a single church helpline for drug addicts: 8-800-600-16-93.

At a meeting of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church on December 26, 2012, the document “On the participation of the Russian Orthodox Church in the rehabilitation of drug addicts” was adopted.

Opening of the first free non-governmental center for outpatient rehabilitation of addicts “Rehabilitation LIVE” in Moscow

The Synodal Department for Charity operates a Coordination Center for Combating Drug Addiction, which regularly organizes training in different regions for clergy and laity in methods of helping drug addicts.

In 2011, the Synodal Department established the Charitable Foundation of Saint Righteous John of Kronstadt to finance church initiatives in the field of combating drug addiction, developing a system of church rehabilitation and helping drug addicts.

In 2021, the first free non-state center for outpatient rehabilitation of addicts “Rehabilitation LIVE” opened in Moscow - at the Church of the Life-Giving Trinity in Kozhevniki. The center is organized by the Synodal Department for Charity and the Charitable Foundation of Saint Righteous John of Kronstadt.

Emergency assistance

The Synodal Department for Charity acted as the coordinator of assistance to victims of fires in 2010, floods in 2011, in Krymsk in 2012, refugees from Ukraine in 2014 and 2015, victims of floods in the Far East in 2021, in the Primorsky Territory in 2021 year, in the Trans-Baikal Territory in 2021, victims of fires in Transbaikalia in 2021 and victims of floods in the Amur region, participated in providing assistance to victims of natural disasters in other countries, in particular in Serbia and the Philippines.

Chairman of the Synodal Department for Charity, Bishop of Orekhovo-Zuevsky Panteleimon at the temporary accommodation centers for refugees from Ukraine on the territory of the Don Metropolis

A group of church assistance in emergency situations has been created under the Synodal Department - these are sisters of mercy, priests and volunteers who are ready to go to the scene of a tragedy, catastrophe, explosion or terrorist attack. The group’s tasks include spiritual and psychological assistance to victims, organizing meals and temporary accommodation for people, legal, medical and social assistance.

As part of the Agreement with the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations, representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church are trained in educational and methodological centers. Special training allows priests to act professionally during emergency situations.

Legal assistance

The Synodal Department operates a service of volunteer lawyers - a team of professionals who, in their free time from their main work, provide free consultations to those in need.

The service has been operating since 2013; by the end of 2021, more than 2.5 thousand people had received assistance.

The service of volunteer lawyers helps solve problems in the field of social protection, housing, labor, family and other legislation of the Russian Federation.

Development of volunteerism

Volunteers of the Orthodox help service “Mercy”

As of November 2021, the Church has more than 800 volunteer charity groups and volunteer associations of various profiles.

Church volunteers help families with children, children without parental care, people with disabilities and their families, care for patients in hospitals, help the homeless and people with various types of addictions, organize transportation for those in need, and participate in charity events.

According to surveys conducted by the Synodal Department for Charity, the number of volunteers participating in charity work is constantly growing. The average age of church volunteers is 35-40 years.

The largest Orthodox volunteer service operates within the framework of the Orthodox help service “Mercy” and employs over 1,250 people. Also, large church social volunteer services operate in the Yekaterinburg, Rostov, Smolensk, and Khabarovsk dioceses.

Food and clothing assistance

With the support of the Synodal Department for Church Charity and Social Service of the Russian Orthodox Church, the Rus food fund and the Orthodox relief service “Mercy” launched the “People’s Lunch” project in 2013. As part of the project, volunteer shops were opened to pack food packages to feed people in difficult life situations.

In 2021, 6.5 thousand volunteers took part in packing the “People’s Lunch”, and managed to pack and distribute 2 million 600 thousand servings of lunch to those in need. In 2021, almost 2 million 700 thousand meals were distributed to those in need.

In addition, together with the Synodal Department for Charity, the Rus Food Fund organizes a charitable donation of leftover products received as donations from factories and warehouses of Russian manufacturers. By October 2021, 20 million kilograms of food had been provided to those in need.

Since 2021, the Synodal Department for Charity and the largest one in Russia have launched a charity project to help those in need throughout Russia. 273 Gloria Jeans stores regularly donate unsold new clothing to needy families across the country through diocesan social departments and church humanitarian aid centers.

Education

Since March 2011, the Synodal Department for Charity has been conducting free educational online seminars on social service issues. Training is conducted via the Internet in webinar mode. Recordings and materials of webinars are published in the archive.

Chairman of the Synodal Department for Charity, Bishop of Orekhovo-Zuevsky Panteleimon, conducts one of the distance learning courses on church social work in 2021

The online seminars are hosted by the heads of the Synodal Department for Charity and invited specialists. The main audience of the seminars are laity and clergy responsible for social work in parishes and dioceses of the Russian Orthodox Church.

Since 2011, 10 remote six-month training courses and more than 1000 webinars have been conducted.

Online classes are conducted in all main areas of church social activities: organizing volunteer work, protecting motherhood, helping addicts, helping people with disabilities and their families, working with petitioners, helping the homeless. In addition, online training covers such important topics as legal and accounting consulting, fundraising (raising funds for social activities), social design and the spiritual foundations of charity.

Also, the Synodal Department for Charity holds Church-wide congresses on social service, which traditionally bring together the heads of social departments, senior sisters and confessors of the sisterhoods of mercy of various dioceses of the Russian Orthodox Church from Russia and other countries of the world.

VIII All-Church Congress on Social Ministry

Congress participants discuss issues of helping pregnant women and mothers with children in difficult life situations, organizing work with people with disabilities and creating a barrier-free environment in churches, issues of promoting sobriety and helping alcoholics, the development of the church volunteer movement and other pressing problems of social service.

Publication of methodological literature

The Synodal Department for Church Charity and Social Service of the Russian Orthodox Church publishes books, reference books, and teaching aids in various areas of social work. From 2010 to November 2021, 44 manuals were published, including: “Shelter for expectant mothers: from plan to implementation”, “Methodology for social rehabilitation of drug addicts in the church community”, “Alcoholic in the family: how can loved ones help?”, “ How to organize a volunteer service: a textbook for beginners,” “100 phrases in Russian sign language: a phrasebook for clergy,” “How to help petitioners: the work of the church social service.”

Three or four new manuals are published every year.

The manuals can be downloaded for free on the Diakonia.ru website in the “Methods” section in formats convenient for reading on different devices.

Exchange of social work experience

The Synodal Department annually holds interregional conferences on church social service.

Plenary session of the XI interregional conference on church social service in the Far Eastern Federal District in 2020. Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk

Such conferences have already been held in the Northwestern, Volga, Ural, Far Eastern, North Caucasus, Siberian and Central federal districts. In 2021, the next interregional conference on church social ministry was held in the Northwestern Federal District. In 2021, the interregional conference was held in the Volga Federal District, in 2021 - in the Ural Federal District, in 2021 - in the Far Eastern Federal District.

Also, since 2011, more than 150 full-time internships have been conducted for parish social workers and representatives of diocesan social departments. In total, more than 2,800 people completed full-time and distance learning. Over the years, course graduates have launched more than 1,800 new church social projects.

Sisterhoods of Charity

Today there are more than 300 sisterhoods of mercy in the Russian Orthodox Church.

Sisters of Charity of the Ekaterinburg Diocese

In 2010, on the initiative of the Synodal Department for Charity, the Association of Sisterhoods of Charity was created. The goals of its creation are to unite the sisterhoods of mercy, exchange experiences, and participate in social projects at various levels. The Association unites all the sisterhoods of the Russian Orthodox Church, and the list of its members is constantly growing.

The Association provides consultations on the activities of sisterhoods of mercy, organizes conferences and seminars to exchange experiences and improve the skills of sisters of mercy and volunteers.

Practical training in care in the Nakhodka diocese

The Association conducts traveling seminars and conferences on the basics of care, training representatives of regional sisterhoods of mercy and employees of government agencies. In 2019-2020 alone, the Association of Sisterhoods held visiting seminars in Kaliningrad, Saratov, Volgograd, Yekaterinburg, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Nakhodka, Khabarovsk, Pskov, Togliatti and in the village of Borskoye, Samara Region.

publications of the Department

The Synodal Department for Church Charity and Social Service of the Russian Orthodox Church publishes books, reference books, teaching aids and collections of articles on social work.

• “Video tutorial on organizing volunteer activities”
• “100 phrases in Russian sign language: a phrasebook for clergy”
• “How to make a temple accessible to everyone: technical standards and architectural solutions”
• “How to help petitioners: the work of church social services”
• “Shelter for expectant mothers: from plan to implementation”
• “Legal assistance to the homeless and other socially excluded groups: to help practitioners”
• “How to build a website. To help charitable organizations"
• “Disabled person in the temple: helping people with hearing and vision problems”
• “The ABCs of helping drug addicts: an Orthodox view”
• A drug addict came to the temple. How to help?
• Homeless Handbook - 2014
• Spiritual, psychological and practical features of helping the homeless
• Experience of creating an almshouse
• Help for the deaf and hard of hearing
• Experience in creating a church humanitarian aid center
• How to organize assistance to crisis families in rural areas: Experience of the Kursk regional organization
• Help the homeless. Social worker directory
• The beginning of life and intrauterine development of humans: from biology to bioethics
• How to organize a temperance society in your parish. Practical recommendations
• Blind man in the temple
• Temperance group at the temple: a guide for the leader
• Necessary nurses in the hospital: helping the priest and the sick
• Participation of children in the ministry of mercy. Toolkit
• Social support for adolescents in prison and after release
• Homeless Handbook - 2012
• Pastoral and nursing care for HIV-infected people. A manual for priests, sisters of mercy and volunteers
• For a life. Protection of motherhood and childhood. Experience and working methods
• A petitioner came to the temple. Methodological recommendations for church social service
• How to create a volunteer help service
• How to organize a temperance society in your parish
• How to organize help for the homeless in your parish
• Collections on social work in the parish
• Help the homeless
• Organization of volunteer work
• Help for the disabled
• Methodology for social rehabilitation of drug addicts in the church community
• Legal assistance to orphanages
• Nursing
• Help for HIV-infected people
• Help in overcoming drug addiction
• Help in overcoming alcohol addiction

Social ministry of the Church: general overview and statistics

Report of the Chairman of the Synodal Department for Church Charity and Social Ministry, Bishop of Orekhovo-Zuevsky Panteleimon at the meeting of the Supreme Church Council on May 11, 2021.

Your Holiness! Your Eminences and Graces, dear members of the Supreme Church Council!

In my report I would like to talk about the development of church charity in 2021.

First of all, I would like to thank you, Your Holiness, for the attention you pay to acts of mercy and charity. You show us all an example of serving your neighbors by visiting those in need at Easter and Christmas, as well as during your trips to the dioceses. It has already become a tradition that, at your request, the rectors of Moscow churches on holidays send funds that could have been spent on flowers to help those in need.

Following the example of His Holiness the Patriarch, many bishops also participate in social service: they visit those in need on holidays, go to hospitals, orphanages, boarding schools, and personally participate in works of mercy and charity. This is very important for the development of social service throughout the Church.

Social workers and social projects. Statistics

I would like to present some general figures about the social ministry of the Church. Currently, according to our data, there are 8,412 social workers in Russian dioceses, of which 1,920 are full-time and 6,492 freelance.

The total number of church social projects is more than 4,500 (data for Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Estonia, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan).

Departments of social orientation exist in 188 Russian dioceses; they are absent in two (Serov and Anadyr) Russian dioceses.

In 187 diocesan departments, leaders have been appointed (in three they have not been appointed: in the Anadyr, Serov and Vladikavkaz dioceses).

In addition to the charity departments themselves, some dioceses have created other socially oriented departments. In particular, there are departments for assistance to families and children in 18 dioceses. They are called differently. In the Novosibirsk diocese, for example, this structure is called the department for the spiritual care of disabled children and children without parental care.

Thirteen dioceses have departments for working with drug and alcohol addicts. In 12 dioceses there are departments for interaction with medical organizations. In 6 dioceses there are independent departments for helping drug addicts, in 6 dioceses there are independent departments for helping alcohol addicts, in two dioceses (Kazan and Penza) there are departments for working with people with disabilities. The Krasnoyarsk diocese has a department of Orthodox psychologists.

Thus, in 46 dioceses there are several socially oriented departments. There are dioceses where there are simultaneously a number of socially oriented departments. In 15 dioceses, in addition to the main charity department, there are more than two social departments. Particularly notable are 4 dioceses, where there are 4 departments with a social orientation at once: these are the Penza, Kazan, Krasnoyarsk, and Novosibirsk dioceses. And the largest number of socially oriented departments in the Voronezh diocese is 5.

Abortion prevention

Your Holiness, in your report at the 2017 Council of Bishops, you called assistance to pregnant women the “most important area” of our work. There has been significant growth in this area in recent years. Every year, with the participation of the Church, an average of 6-7 new shelters for women in difficult life situations appear. If in 2011 there was only one shelter for women in Ivanovo, then by 2021 their number reached 44. In 2021, 8 new shelters were created: in Yekaterinburg, Kazan, Sarapul, Shakhty, Uglich, Nerchinsk, Magnitogorsk and Stavropol. You see them on the map. Thus, today there are already 53 shelters opened with the participation of the Church.

The last two church shelters for women were opened in Stavropol and Belgorod. Ruling bishops participated in the opening of shelters. The shelter appeared in Belgorod quite recently - in February of this year.

This year it is planned to create several more shelters, one of them should appear in Kaluga thanks to the victory of the Kaluga diocese in the “Orthodox Initiative” competition.

Representatives of the Church participate in anti-abortion psychological counseling for women. Our Synodal Department coordinates the “Save a Life” program, which today covers 75 cities (you can see them on the map), employs 141 specialists in 134 medical institutions. Thanks to the program, over 7,000 children were saved from abortion.

Church humanitarian aid centers are also being actively created throughout the country. In 2021, the Synodal Department for Charity held a competition to distribute funds collected with the blessing of His Holiness across all Russian churches for Children's Day in 2021. Then 39 million rubles were collected to help women in crisis. It was decided to use these funds to open new humanitarian aid centers in the dioceses.

In 2021 alone, 66 new church-based humanitarian aid centers were opened. Thanks to our competition, 101 new humanitarian aid centers were created. Centers continue to open, and today there are already 167 church humanitarian aid centers operating in Russia. By the end of 2021, another 21 new centers should appear.

The opening of these centers will intensify all social activities, especially in small dioceses. This positive experience could be built on.

Help addicted people. Sobriety Day

One of the key areas of our ministry is helping people addicted to alcohol and drugs. Every year, from 5 to 10 new church rehabilitation centers and other assistance structures appear in Russia.

According to our 2021 monitoring data, in Russia in 2021 there were: 75 rehabilitation centers, 12 adaptation apartments, 12 outpatient programs, 40 counseling centers, 7 preparatory motivational centers, as well as 77 support groups for addicts and more than 300 societies, fraternities and sobriety groups .

In 2014, by decision of the Holy Synod, Temperance Day was restored in Russia. And we see that the topic of a sober and healthy lifestyle is becoming more and more popular every year. If in 2015 there were 1,370 media reports about Temperance Day, then next year there were 3,976, and in 2021 there were 4,877 media reports.

There is also a noticeable increase in the interest of Internet users in the concept of sobriety. In September 2014, about 30 thousand requests with the word “sobriety” were recorded in Yandex, in September 2015 - 55 thousand, in September 2021 - 74 thousand, in September 2021 - over 104 thousand. Moreover, in other months, the average frequency of queries with the word sobriety in Yandex is 13-15 thousand per month. Taking this opportunity, I would like to thank the Church and Public Council for Protection from the Threat of Alcohol and the Synodal Department for Relations between the Church and Society and the Media for their work in this direction.

Help the homeless

The church is actively involved in helping the homeless. There are 95 homeless shelters, 76 large charity canteens, and 10 mercy buses (mobile aid stations) in Russia. The location of these projects can be seen on the map.

One of the most serious problems of homeless people is the lack of access to outpatient medical care. First aid stations for the homeless currently operate only in Moscow and St. Petersburg. We are now working, together with the Ministry of Health, on a joint initiative to open first-aid posts for the homeless in three more pilot regions: in the Khabarovsk Territory, Chuvashia and the Irkutsk Region.

In 2021, a shelter for the homeless was opened in the Khabarovsk diocese; it is located in three heated railway cars, with electricity, sewerage and water supply. In addition to overnight accommodation, the homeless are provided with hot meals, warm clothing, the opportunity to undergo sanitary treatment and undergo fluorography.

Help for the disabled

An important area of ​​our ministry is helping people with disabilities. There are currently over 400 church projects to help people with disabilities. Work with deaf people is carried out in 63 parishes.

With the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill, in different regions we are organizing courses to train clergy and church volunteers in sign language and church vocabulary. In 2021, four such courses were organized in different regions (in Nizhny Novgorod on March 20-26, Rostov-on-Don on July 10-19 and September 4-10, in Moscow from October 2021 to March 2021), also by our Department released a video dictionary of Orthodox vocabulary of Russian sign language - this is the first attempt to generalize the experience of translation into Russian sign language of different Orthodox communities of the deaf.

Helping deaf-blind people takes a special place in our ministry. Today, in 12 churches in 10 regions, deaf-blind people are parishioners of the churches. In 2021, our Department conducted courses to train Orthodox volunteers to communicate with deaf-blind people.

Last year, His Holiness the Patriarch consecrated in Sergiev Posad the construction site of a social rehabilitation center for post-boarding support for young deaf-blind people with disabilities. This is a joint project of the Holy Trinity Sergius Lavra and the Sergiev Posad orphanage.

Also at the end of 2021, the lower church in the Sergiev Posad boarding house for the deaf-blind for children and young disabled people was consecrated. The consecration was performed by Archbishop Feognost of Sergiev Posad. The entire church in this orphanage is adapted for children with special needs.

An important topic is creating an accessible environment in churches. Unfortunately, not all of our churches today are accessible to people with limited mobility. We thank you, Your Holiness, for drawing attention to this issue at the Church-wide Congress on Social Ministry in 2021.

With the blessing of His Holiness the Patriarch, we, together with the Expert Council on Church Art, Architecture and Restoration, have prepared methodological recommendations for ensuring an accessible environment in churches. These recommendations were sent by the Office of the Moscow Patriarchate to all Russian dioceses.

Last year, our Department published a special methodological manual, “A Special Person in the Church,” and we are training representatives of dioceses.

We help where no one can help

Church projects of assisted living for disabled people are in great demand. In Vyborg, Penza, and Kineshma these projects have already become a reality.

In 2021, in Penza, with the support of the Church, one of the best non-state projects of assisted living was opened - a boarding house for young disabled people with severe disabilities “Veronica's House”. Here people with disabilities lead an active life: they undergo rehabilitation, study and, if possible, work. This project is an alternative to a psychoneurological boarding school, where most people do not develop, but simply lie in beds. The Penza diocese allocated land for the construction of the center; it is located next to the temple.

Federal Minister of Labor and Social Protection Maxim Topilin noted at the opening of the center that from the point of view of design, convenience and comfort for people, “Veronica’s House” is currently the best such project in Russia.

In some dioceses (Alatyr, Samara, Yoshkar-Olinsk, Moscow, Pyatigorsk) rehabilitation and development centers for disabled children began to appear. In these centers, the Church often provides assistance that no one - neither the state nor society - can yet provide to people with disabilities.

For example, the Alatyr Church Center for Disabled Children (Chuvashia) is located in a city with a population of 35 thousand people. There is no such center either in the city itself or within a radius of 200 kilometers from it. The Alatyr center is attended by 55 disabled children from 40 families.

Help in emergency situations

In recent years, the Church has managed to fine-tune its system for responding to major emergencies. Priests and sisters of mercy are ready to go to the scene of the incident as soon as possible to help people.

In 2021, Church officials responded to 30 major emergencies.

After the crash of a Russian plane flying to Syria in the Black Sea (December 25, 2021), priests from the Synodal Department were on duty in the morgue and in the hotel, comforting the relatives of those killed in the plane crash.

In connection with the flood in August 2021 in the Primorsky Territory, our Department sent 100,000 rubles. for operational assistance, these funds were used to purchase food and water for the victims, and the Vladivostok diocese also purchased gas stoves, cylinders, bedding, and clothing with its own funds.

After the terrorist attack in the St. Petersburg metro (April 3, 2021), clergy of the St. Petersburg diocese visited the victims in hospitals and provided them with spiritual and psychological support.

They actively helped in the Rostov diocese after a major fire in Rostov-on-Don in August 2021. Metropolitan Mercury personally delivered basic necessities and clothing to the diocesan humanitarian aid center. During the week, the parishes of the diocese collected things for the victims. Priests were on duty on the school grounds where the victims were accommodated.

Distance learning

Our Synodal Department pays special attention to training representatives of dioceses in church social service.

The six-month distance learning course for parish social workers, which began in November 2021, was completed in 2021. As a result of the course, participants launched social projects based on 306 parishes and socially-oriented NGOs in 109 dioceses (of which 11 were foreign), and involved more than 1,950 volunteers in social activities (more than half of them were young people). During the course, the number of students helped by training participants increased by more than 15,000 people.

On the map you can see the social projects that emerged thanks to our distance learning courses in 2021. Among the participants in the 2016-2017 six-month course were representatives of 11 foreign dioceses.

In addition, in November 2021 we launched a new six-month distance learning course for parish social workers. It came to an end in April 2021. 255 people from 95 dioceses successfully completed the training. Among the course participants were representatives of 11 foreign dioceses.

Also, in pursuance of the instructions of the Supreme Church Council, last year we conducted a two-month distance learning course for managers and employees of social departments of dioceses. The course was successfully completed by 82 representatives from 52 dioceses.

In addition, in 2021 we conducted an online course on organizing family care centers and working with orphans. This course was attended by 249 people from 71 dioceses.

In-person courses and conferences

In addition to distance learning, our Department organizes on-site continuing education courses and conferences. A whole series of such events were held in 2021:

• First of all, under the chairmanship of His Holiness the Patriarch, the VII All-Church Congress on Social Service was held, in which over 2 thousand people took part: leaders of church social projects, heads of diocesan departments of social orientation, sisters of mercy, social workers, volunteers, students of PSTGU, RGSU, St. Dimitrievsky School of Sisters of Mercy. Delegates to the congress came from 175 dioceses, including 22 from abroad. For the first time, within the framework of a general church congress, in addition to thematic sections in various areas of social work, separate sections were held in federal districts;
• according to tradition, in 2021 an interregional conference was held in St. Petersburg, in which 241 employees of social departments of 21 dioceses of the Northwestern Federal District took part;
• we conducted 17 shifts of full-time advanced training courses in Moscow for laity (61 people) involved in social service from 35 dioceses;
• in Moscow, 6 sessions of full-time advanced training courses were held, with visits to the main church charitable institutions of the capital, for 59 clergy responsible for social work from 50 dioceses;
• With the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill, in 2021 we opened a new regional training center in Yekaterinburg, where for the first time five-day in-person training courses were held for 18 managers and employees of social departments from 13 dioceses of the Urals and Siberia.

In 2021, it is planned to open a second regional training center in Rostov-on-Don.

Help for the dioceses of Kazakhstan and Central Asia

In February 2021, we conducted an internship in Yekaterinburg, in which, in addition to representatives of the dioceses of the Ural Federal District, representatives of the social departments of the dioceses of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan took part. 21 representatives of 13 dioceses came to the training, including 16 people from 9 dioceses of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.

We paid for tickets, accommodation, and food for these dioceses. The completed training gave new impetus to the development of social service in Central Asia.

During the conversation, it became clear that employees of the social departments of the dioceses of Kazakhstan and Central Asia are forced to work in more difficult conditions than their colleagues in Russia.

For example, in Tajikistan there is an acute problem of financing and shortage of personnel. The outflow of the Russian population continues. A large percentage of people live below the poverty line. The problem of education of Russian children is acute.

In 2021, we collected and donated over 500 thousand rubles to the Dushanbe diocese to help the poorest people. Our employee, sister of mercy Polina Yufereva, visited the Dushanbe diocese. Part of the funds was spent on purchasing food packages for patients in a mental health hospital and a psychiatric hospital, part on the renovation of a building on the territory of the church, in which they are going to open a boarding house for children from low-income families, and the rest of the funds were sent to help the wards of the social department of the diocese. In the photo you see how the diocese distributes the collected money to lonely Russian grandmothers who live in very difficult conditions. Our Department plans to continue to provide support to those in need in Tajikistan.

Techniques. Working with dioceses

The Synodal Department for Charity publishes books and methodologies in various areas of social work. Since 2010, we have published 37 such manuals. In 2021, 7 methodological manuals were published and prepared for printing - on helping disabled people in the church, rehabilitating children with cerebral palsy, helping alcoholics, a homeless person's guide, how to organize a volunteer service, and others.

We carry out targeted work with dioceses:

— We have assigned a coordinator from the Synodal Department to each federal district. Its main task is to help newly formed dioceses and dioceses that are experiencing difficulties in developing social ministry;

— We developed and sent out a memo for heads of social departments on how to develop social service in the diocese from scratch;

— Our coordinators are constantly in touch with the heads of social departments of the dioceses of their district, help them, advise them on opening new projects, organizing charity events, raising funds, filing applications for grants, inviting them to study, and when the diocese itself does not have money for training, we finance full-time education at our own expense;

— Based on the results of the year’s work, it can be noted that there is a noticeable increase in social activities in small dioceses. More and more dioceses and parishes are participating in grant competitions. For example, in 2021, 152 church social projects became winners of the Presidential Grants competition. In total, they received 421 million 672 thousand 231 rubles. If we summarize these data with the results of the “Orthodox Initiative” competition, then in total we managed to attract 447 million for the development of church social projects;

— With our support, five dioceses joined the “Give Firewood” campaign in 2021: thanks to the campaign, single pensioners were able to receive free firewood to heat their homes;

— Our Department, together with the Rus food fund, helps provide food to those in need in the dioceses. In 2021, almost 2 thousand tons (1,983 tons) of products were transferred to 23 regions;

— This year we are holding a series of on-site practical seminars with the participation of key employees of the Synodal Department in various areas. Most of these seminars are held in newly formed or hard-to-reach dioceses—we have already held them in the Velikiye Luki and Sarapul dioceses, and a seminar is coming up in the Abakan diocese. We will also hold a separate seminar in the Far East (in Khabarovsk) and an interregional conference for the entire Volga region in Ufa.

Difficulties

Despite the growing competence of dioceses in matters of social service and the emergence of new social projects, some difficulties still remain:

— Regular coordination councils of heads of diocesan departments are not held everywhere. According to our data, such meetings are held in 118 Russian dioceses. Thus, in 72 dioceses such meetings do not take place;

— Social departments of dioceses belonging to the same metropolis do not always actively interact with each other;

— Some diocese websites do not have a section dedicated to social service. Sometimes there is not even information about departments, their heads and their activities;

— Lack of funds and lack of people who are involved in raising funds for the social activities of the diocese.

As a solution to these problems, it is proposed to recommend that dioceses:

— hold extended coordination councils several times a year with the participation of the heads of diocesan departments, similar to meetings of the Supreme Church Council;

— hold regular meetings of the heads of all social departments of the dioceses included in the metropolis;

— create and constantly maintain a section on social service on the diocese website;

- heads of diocesan social departments - participate in face-to-face and distance learning courses of the Synodal Department for Charity, and also seek help on all issues from the coordinators of their federal district in our Department.

Raising funds for social work

We also plan to launch a project to develop a system for raising funds for social activities in dioceses. We have a benefactor who is ready to finance this project.

As part of the project, the Synodal Department provides methodological support for the work of fundraisers in two selected dioceses; the benefactor we attract pays 75% of the expenses for the work of diocesan fundraisers during the first 6 months, the remaining 25% is paid by the diocese itself. In 6 months, local fundraisers, with the support of the Synodal Department, must master all the basic skills of raising funds, and the diocese will be able to continue to finance their work independently. Six months later, funding from Moscow begins to flow to the other two dioceses. And thus, we will gradually expand the circle of dioceses where competent, highly qualified professionals will work.

Concluding my report, I would like to once again thank you, Your Holiness, for your attention to works of mercy and personal involvement in helping suffering people. After all, social service is helping those in need. They need not only money, but above all, love and care. And in Kemerovo, consoling grieving people who have lost their relatives and friends, you showed us all an example of this service. A personal approach to each person is something without which it is impossible to imagine church social activities.

Thank you for your attention!

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1. Bishop of Orekhovo-Zuevsky Panteleimon. — Access date: August 4, 2021.
2. Courses on the basics of Russian sign language for clergy and laity have been completed in Tomsk. // www.diaconia.ru. — 2021. — February 10. — Access date: August 4, 2021.
3. Applications are accepted for sign language courses for priests and students of religious educational institutions. // www.diaconia.ru. — 2015. — June 19. — Access date: February 10, 2021.
4. A seminar on the issue of performing the Sacraments for deaf people will be held in the Vyatka diocese. // www.diaconia.ru. — 2015. — August 18. — Access date: February 10, 2021.
5. In Moscow, for the first time, courses were held to train clergy to communicate with deaf-blind people. // www.diaconia.ru. — 2015. — November 16. — Access date: February 10, 2021.
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Christmas readings: program of social sections

From January 26 to 29, the XXII Christmas Readings will be held in the capital of Russia. We are publishing the program of social sections of this annual church-wide conference.

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DIRECTION: “THE LEGACY OF THE REVEREND SERGIUS OF RADONEZH.
MINISTRY OF MERCY: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE" Chairman of the direction:

Bishop of Orekhovo-Zuevsky PANTELEMON, Chairman of the Synodal Department for Church Charity and Social Service of the Russian Orthodox Church

Responsible secretary of the direction:

Solovyova Irina Vyacheslavovna, head of the department of social and youth work of PSTGU;

14.1.Section “Monastic medicine: heritage, modernity, future.”

Chairmen:

Hegumen Seraphim (Kravchenko), Secretary of the Synodal Central Society of the Russian Orthodox Church,

Chuchalin Alexander Grigorievich, Academician of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor, Chief Therapist of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, Director of the Research Institute of Pulmonology of the Federal Medical and Biological Agency.

Curator:

Pustograev Nikolay Nikolaevich

Time spending:

January 28, 10.00–14.00

Location

: Synodal Central Society of the Russian Orthodox Church, st. Nikoloyamskaya 57, building 7

Directions

: metro station "Ilyich Square", "Rimskaya"

Organizer:

Society of Orthodox Doctors.

1. Balalykin Dmitry Alekseevich Doctor of Medical Sciences, Doctor of History Sc., professor, head of the department of history of medicine, history of the Fatherland and cultural studies of the First Moscow State Medical University named after. I. M. Sechenov. "The influence of early Christian thought on the emergence of scientific medicine"
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2. Chernousov Alexander Fedorovich, Academician of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor, Head of the Department of Faculty Surgery of the First Moscow State Medical University named after. I. M. Sechenov. "Modern medicine in Russia: ethical problems."
3. Archpriest Sergius Filimonov, rector of the Church of the Sovereign Icon of the Mother of God, candidate of theology, doctor of medical sciences, professor of St. Petersburg State Medical University named after. I. P. Pavlova. “Doctor, priest, patient in yesterday, today and tomorrow’s Russia.”
4. Inaccessible Alexander Viktorovich, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor of the Department of Faculty Therapy of the First Moscow State Medical University named after. THEM. Sechenov. "Our memory."

Meeting of representatives of regional branches of the OPVR.

Chairmen:

Archpriest Sergius Filimonov,

Unavailable Alexander Viktorovich

Time spending:

14.00–16.00.

14.2. Section. “Priest in social service. Mentor, inspirer, participant.”

Chairman:

Archpriest Konstantin Strievsky, deputy head of the department of social and youth work for education.

Executive Secretary:

Zaltsman T.V. Ph.D., Head of the Department of Social Work

Organizers

: PSTGU

Time spending:

January 28, 11.00–17.00.

Location:

PSTGU, Bakhrushina st., building 2/5, Hall of Academic Councils.

Directions

: metro station "Paveletskaya", metro station "Novokuznetskaya".

Reports:

1. Zaltsman Tatyana Valerievna, Candidate of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor, Head of the Department of Social and Youth Work, Priest Ministry. “Mercy and professionalism in the social ministry of the priest.”
2. Archpriest Mikhail Potokin, Chairman of the Commission for Church Social Activities under the Diocesan Council of Moscow. “The priest as an organizer of social service at the diocesan level”
3. Gracheva Olga Evgenievna, Ph.D., First Deputy Head of the Department of Social Protection of the Population of Moscow. “The needs of state social institutions for spiritual care”
4. Archpriest Nikolai Emelyanov, Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs of PSTBI, Art. Lecturer at the Department of Systematic Theology and Patrolology. “Social ministry in the pastoral training program: a course of practical theology in the PSTGU curriculum”
5. Deacon Oleg Vyshinsky, teacher of the Department of Social Work of PSTGU. “Personal qualities of a cleric involved in social service.”
6. Alesandro Salacone, University of Rome III, representative of the Community of St. Egidia in Moscow. “The role of Catholic priests in the formation of a modern culture of mercy (using the example of the Community of St. Egidio)”
7. Archpriest Konstantin Strievsky, cleric of the Church of St. Nicholas in Kuznetsy, deputy. head Department of Social and Youth Work of PSTGU. “Serving in Crisis.
8. Stepanova Ekaterina Sergeevna, journalist of the portal Miloserdie.ru. “The role of the priest’s personality: the personal feat of the ministry of St. John of San Francisco.”
9. Archpriest Dimitry Grudoglo, head of the diocesan department for church charity and social service, dean of the Kineshma city deanery of the Kineshma diocese. “How to Inspire Your Congregants to Serve Others.”
10. Solovyova Irina Vyacheslavovna, head of the department of social and youth work, senior Lecturer at the Department of Social Work at PSTGU. “Spiritual assistance to mentors of students majoring in social work.”
11. Archpriest Vladimir Alexandrov, Church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary in Vladykino, Moscow. “A priest in a social institution: experience in catechetical activities and work with staff.”
12. Cherny Alexey Ivanovich, junior researcher Center for the History of Theology and Theological Education. "The priest and the pastoral referent as subjects of social service in Catholic Germany."
13. Chicherina Alena Igorevna, 2nd year student in social work. “Student and priest in an Orthodox social university: a student’s view.”

Discussion.

Presentation of the book “Mercy is an ancient word for modern times.” Start:

17.00.

14.3. Section “Issues of uniting the rehabilitation structures of the Russian Orthodox Church into a single network of assistance to drug addicted citizens”

Chairman

: Archimandrite Methodius (Kondratiev), head of the coordination center for combating drug addiction of the Synodal Central Society of the Russian Orthodox Church

Curator:

Prishchenko Roman Ivanovich, member of the board of the St. Charitable Foundation. right John of Kronstadt, psychologist.

Time spending

: January 29, 10.00 – 17.00.

Location:

Moscow, Rubtsovskaya embankment, 2/18, building of the Moscow State Technical University named after N.E. Bauman

Directions:

m. "Baumanskaya"

14.4.
Section “Helping the homeless in the traditions of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra”
Chairman:

Bishop of Bishkek and Kyrgyzstan Theodosius

Curator:

Kuskov Ilya Vladimirovich, head of the direction of the Synodal Central Society of the Russian Orthodox Church, chairman of the Charitable Foundation “Helper and Patron”.

Time spending

: January 28, 10.00–19.15.

Location:

Church in the name of the Holy Right-Believing Tsarevich Dimitri at the 1st City Hospital, Leninsky Prospekt, 8, building 12.

Directions

: metro station "Oktyabrskaya", "Shabolovskaya".

1. Kologova Olga Vladimirovna, Charitable Foundation for Helping the Homeless “Helper and Patron”. “Traditions of the Holy Trinity Sergius Lavra in helping those in need.”
2. Udodova Natalya Nikolaevna, Department of Social Ministry of the Bishkek and Kyrgyz Diocese, Bishkek. “Experience of working with the homeless in Bishkek.”
3. Priest Anatoly Bochkar, Intercession Cathedral in Barnaul. “Organization of a homeless assistance service in Barnaul.”
4. Priest Evgeny Uskov, Church of the Intercession of the Mother of God, Republic of Mari El, p. Emekov. "Rural shelter for the homeless."
5. Vera Dmitrievna Kostyleva, Arkhangelsk Compound of the Holy Artemyev-Verkolsky Monastery, Arkhangelsk, Laureate of the Prize named after. Nadezhda Monetova of the Synodal Department for Church Charity and Social Service 2013. “The practice of social adaptation of homeless people at the Arkhangelsk courtyard of the St. Artemyev-Verkolsky Monastery.”
6. Veniamin Vyacheslavovich Demenko, Integrated Center for Social Services for Citizens Left Without Housing, Novosibirsk. “Labor resocialization of homeless people in church social institutions.”
7. Archpriest Roman Khabibulin, Shelter for homeless people at the Holy Cross Church in Ufa. “Experience in solving problems related to the activities of shelters for homeless citizens.”
8. Priest Alexey Novozhilov, Social Rehabilitation Center of St. Righteous John of Kronstadt, Kamensk-Uralsky. "Problems of social rehabilitation of homeless people."

Round table "Motivational incentives in the rehabilitation of homeless people."

14.5. Conference “Professional Christian social work in Russia: heritage, modernity, future”

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Organizer:

Orthodox Institute of St. John the Theologian.

Chairman:

Firsov Mikhail Vasilievich, Doctor of History Sc., professor, vice-rector of RPU for scientific work.

Curator:

Nadyuk Ruslan Ivanovich Ph.D., Deputy. Head of the Department of Psychology of Social Work at the Orthodox Institute of St. John the Evangelist,

Time spending

: January 28 14:00 – 19:00.

Location:

Orthodox Institute of St. John the Evangelist; lane Chernyshevsky, 11a. The premises of the house temple.

Directions:

m. "Dostoevsky", "Novoslobodskaya".

Reports:

1. Firsov Mikhail Vasilievich Doctor of History n, professor, vice-rector of the Russian Pedagogical University for scientific work; Biryukova Regina Mikhailovna, Ph.D., Associate Professor of the Department of Social Work, Moscow Regional State University. "Modern methodological problems of professional Christian work in Russia"
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2. Dr. Lanny Endicott, Oral Roberts University, USA, Tulsa, Oklahoma
3. “Integration of Christian values ​​and professional competencies in social work: American experience.”
4. Priest Stefan Domuschi Candidate of Theology, Candidate of Philosophy "Secular and religious components in the preparation of a social worker oriented to parish service"
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5. Suslova Tatyana Fedorovna Ph.D. Sc., Associate Professor, Russian State Social University. “Social Christian social work with families: features of support in a metropolis
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6. Dr. Christina Curry. “Counseling survivors of violence in Christian social work: international experience.”
7. Priest Vitaly Simora, Ph.D., Lelchitsky Igor Davydovich, Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, professor, head. Department of Pedagogy, Social Work and Social Psychology of Tver State University. “The formation and development of social work practice in the Tver diocese at the turn of the 10th and 20th centuries.”
8. Namestnikova Irina Viktorovna Ph.D. Sc., professor, department. social work of Moscow Regional State University. “Deontological problems of Christian domestic social work.”
9. Hieromonk Rodion (Larionov), Ph.D. n., cand. theology, associate professor at National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, executive secretary of the Educational Committee of the Russian Orthodox Church. "Integration of Secular and Religious Education in Conceptual Approaches to Professional Christian Social Work."
10. Abydenova Nadezhda Aleksandrovna, Ph.D., Associate Professor of the Department of Psychology of Social Work of the Orthodox Institute of St. John the Theologian. "Family Counseling in Christian Social Work."
11. Studenova Elena Gennadievna, Ph.D. Sc., associate professor, department. social work of Moscow Regional State University. “Legal foundations of domestic Christian social work.”
12. Nadyuk Ruslan Ivanovich, Ph.D. n., deputy head Department of Psychology of Social Work of the Orthodox Institute of St. John the Theologian. "Christian social work as a value-oriented direction in professional social work: from technology to personality."
13. Rachkovskaya Nadezhda Aleksandrovna, Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, professor of the department. social work of Moscow Regional State University. “Social work in the inclusive education system in the parish.”
14. Dainega Nadezhda Vladimirovna, coordinator of the Central, North-Western Regions of the Russian Federation, Kaliningrad and the Kaliningrad region. JSC "International Union of German Culture". “Cooperation of regional public organizations with Lutheran churches in professional support of needy citizens.”
15. Kiseleva Ekaterina Aleksandrovna, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Head. Department of Psychology and Pedagogy, Moscow Regional State University. “Pedagogical foundations of modern domestic professional Christian social work.”
16. Nina Vladimirovna Belyakova, teacher at the Department of Psychology of Social Work at the Orthodox Institute of St. John the Theologian. "Bio-psycho-socio-spiritual model in the social rehabilitation of addicts in Christian social work."
17. Kuznetsov Yuri Valentinovich, Ph.D. Sc., Professor of the Department of History and Sociology, Murmansk State Technical University. "Philosophical foundations of professional Christian social work."

18.00 -19.00 Webinar with Asbury University

Dr. David Saycil, Dean of the Department of Social Work, Asbury University, Oklahoma. “Integration of Christian and professional competencies in the education of a student in the field of social work.”

14.6. Section “St. Sergius tradition of caring for the disabled: history and modernity.”

Co-chairs:

priest Mikhail Potokin, Chairman of the Commission for Church Social Ministry of Moscow,

Malofeev Nikolay Nikolaevich, professor, academician of the Russian Academy of Education, doctor of education. Doctor of Science, Director of the Institute of Correctional Pedagogy of the Russian Academy of Education;

Executive Secretary:

Leontyeva Veronika Viktorovna, head of the department for work with disabled people of the Synodal Central Children's Society of the Russian Orthodox Church.

Time spending:

January 29, 11.00–16.00.

Location:

Marfo-Mariinskaya Convent of Mercy, st. B. Ordynka, 34, Blue living room.

Directions

: metro station "Tretyakovskaya".

1. Malofeev Nikolay Nikolaevich, professor, academician of the Russian Academy of Education, doctor of education. Sc., director of the Institute of Correctional Pedagogy of the Russian Academy of Education. “The domestic tradition of caring for disabled children. Russian Orthodox Church and active charity."
2. Nun Ekaterina (Pozdnyakova), abbess of the Martha and Mary Convent of Mercy. "Martha and Mary Convent of Mercy: the ministry of Martha and Mary."
3. Salomatina Irina Vladimirovna, Ph.D. Sc., Associate Professor, Institute of Correctional Pedagogy, Russian Academy of Education. “Care of the Lavra of St. Sergius for deaf-blind people.”
4. Hieromonk Vissarion (Kukushkin), head of the Regional Educational and Methodological Center for Serving the Hearing Impaired of the Yekaterinburg Metropolis. "The Church's care for the deaf and hard of hearing: the experience of imperial Russia."
5. Bitova Anna Lvovna, speech therapist-defectologist, director of the Republican Public Organization “Center for Curative Pedagogy”. “Combining efforts in solving problems of social adaptation of disabled children brought up in boarding schools
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6. Tsarev Andrey Mikhailovich, director of the Center for Curative Pedagogy, Pskov. "Education of children with severe and multiple developmental disorders."
7. Chisty Sergey Vladimirovich, Vice-President of the National Charitable Foundation for Supporting Work on Adapting the Urban Environment for Low-Mobility Groups of the Population “City Without Barriers”. “Analysis of the practice of adapting Moscow churches for people with limited mobility.”
8. Balashov Dmitry Evgenievich, teacher of boarding school No. 101 of types I and II, catechist of the Church of St. Tikhon, Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' in Klin. “Accessible environment in the temple: the view of a person with hearing impairment.”
9. Polyakova Ekaterina Mikhailovna, special teacher of State Budgetary Educational Institution kindergarten No. 2607, consultant of the St. Demetrius Sisterhood, coordinator of the work of volunteers from the SD “Mercy”. “Experience of working with children with severe intellectual disabilities.”
10. Sonina Svetlana Nikolaevna, educational psychologist, cultural and educational. “Principles of helping disabled people in the church community: the experience of the “Special Group” of the Transfiguration Orthodox Brotherhood.”
11. Korotin Alexander Petrovich, head of the Center for Support and Rehabilitation of Disabled People “In the Name of Life” at the Alatyr Diocese. “Social ministry to help disabled people in the Alatyr diocese.”
12. Tsarev Alexander Nikolaevich, Chairman of the Ulyanovsk regional organization “Russian Children's Fund”. “Organization of a short-term stay group for disabled children.”
13. Koikova Olga Anatolyevna, teacher of social and everyday orientation of the department of psychological and pedagogical assistance of KOGKUSO “Muryginsky orphanage-boarding school for mentally retarded children.” “Socialization, spiritual, moral and aesthetic development of young disabled people in a children's social institution.”

14.7.
Section “Promoting sobriety in the modern world: the legacy of St. Sergius of Radonezh and Russian saints”
Chairman:

Archpriest Igor Bachinin, Yekaterinburg, member of the Church and Public Council for Protection from the Threat of Alcohol

Curator:

Doronkin Valery Konstantinovich, head of the coordination center for promoting sobriety and combating alcoholism of the Synodal Central Society of the Russian Orthodox Church

Time spending

: January 29, 10.00–13.00.

Location:

Russian State Social University, st. Wilhelm Pieck, no. 4.

Directions:

m. "Botanical Garden", then walk 10 minutes.

1. Doronkin Valery Konstantinovich, head of the coordination center for promoting sobriety and combating alcoholism of the Synodal Central Society of the Russian Orthodox Church. "The Orthodox Church and the Promotion of Temperance in Our Days."
2. Archpriest Ilya Shugaev, rector of the Church of the Archangel Michael, Taldom, Moscow region. "Reverend Sergius and the Ancient Fathers on Sobriety."
3. Archpriest Vitaly Bakun, Ukraine. “The Hieromartyr Vladimir of Epiphany and the New Russian Martyrs on Sobriety.”
4. Gusev Georgy Vitalievich, Ph.D., head of the family sobriety club, Moscow “Sergiev School of Sobriety”
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5. Hieromonk Pavel (Palgunov), head of the diocesan temperance society. "Activities of the diocesan temperance society in honor of St. Sergius of Radonezh in the Kamensk diocese"
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14.8.
Section “Organization of church assistance in emergency situations: first aid course.”
Chairman:
Prot.
Andrey Bliznyuk , coordinator of the CPES sector (Church assistance in emergency situations)

Curator:

Yufereva Polina Olegovna, head of the department for organizing church assistance in emergency situations of the Synodal Central Church of the Russian Orthodox Church.

Time spending:

January 27 and 28, 10.00

Location:

Leninsky Prospekt, 8 bldg. 12, St. Demetrius School of Sisters of Mercy, room. 242.

Directions:
metro station "Oktyabrskaya", metro station "Shabolovskaya"

1. I. January 27 and 28 from 10.00 to 15.00 Practical course “First aid in emergency situations”
2. II. January 28 15.00 Round table: “The role of volunteers in emergency situations”

14.9.
Section.
“The role of the sisterhoods of mercy in the social service of the Church.” Chairman:

Archpriest Sergius Filimonov - rector of the Church of the “Sovereign Icon of the Mother of God”, candidate of theology, doctor of medical sciences, professor of St. Petersburg State Medical University named after. I.P. Pavlova, St. Petersburg

Curator:

Khudoyarova Lyudmila Fedorovna

Organizers:

OCBSS ROC, Association of Sisterhoods of Charity of the Russian Orthodox Church.

Time spending:

January 29, 10.00-14.00, registration from 9.00.

Location:

temple of st. Nicholas at the Research Institute of Neurosurgery named after. N.N. Burdenko, 1st Tverskoy-Yamskaya lane, 13/5.

Directions:

m. "Mayakovskaya", exit to 1st Tverskoy-Yamsky lane, walk 5 minutes.

Reports:

1. Archpriest Sergiy Filimonov, MD, Chairman of the Society of Orthodox Doctors of St. Petersburg named after. St. Luke, confessor of the sisterhood of St. Martyr. Tatiana, St. Petersburg.
2. Archpriest Alexy Shulgin, confessor of the Sisterhood of the Holy Prmcc. Grand Duchess Elizabeth and others. Varvara, Novokuznetsk. " Social work with addicts and codependents on the basis of the sisterhood of mercy."
3. Yakunin Andrey Aleksandrovich, head of the Tyumen Mercy Society, Tyumen, “The role of the sisterhoods of mercy in the development of social service of the Tobolsk Metropolis
4. Nekrasova Maria Pavlovna, senior sister of the Sisterhood in the name of St. Alexandra Feodorovna, Arkhangelsk. “Experience of nursing service in medical institutions of Arkhangelsk.”
5. Hegumen Antonin, confessor of the Sisterhood in the name of the BM All-Tsaritsa icon, Izhevsk. “Development of the main activities of the sisterhood.”
6. Zenkevich Elena Evgenievna, executive secretary of the Union of Sisterhoods of Charity of Belarus. “Cooperation in the field of mercy: the activities of the Union of Sisterhoods of Mercy of the Belarusian Orthodox Church.”
7. 7.
   Khudoyarova Lyubov Fedorovna, coordinator of the Association of Sisterhoods of Charity of the Russian Orthodox Church, Moscow.
   “Regulations on the organization of sisterhoods and brotherhoods of diaconal orientation of the Russian Orthodox Church.”
8. Emshanova Tatyana Ivanovna, coordinator of work at the hospital of the Sisterhood in the name of the icon BM Vsetsaritsa, Izhevsk. “Development of the main activities of the sisterhood.”