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Our vision: the infusion of the Russian world with the culture of the Kingdom of God

Our mission: to build a team of teams, whose love for each other and the world experientially impacts individuals, teams, and leaders with the love of Christ

Russia has an orphan spirit that creates both literal orphans and destroys the fabric of family.  Spiritual fathers beget healthy biological fathers who create healthy families.  By creating a team of leaders (fathers), we seek to partner with Christians in leadership in every sphere of the community to bring visible transformation.

We are already seeing lives radically impacted, marriages saved, and even miraculous
physical healings. We teach, model, and practice discipleship of spirit, soul, and body. The result is a completely new level of peace, freedom, and effectiveness in life. Our primary strategy is a training series that Lyle has written to create intentional Christian communities that grow into mission teams. This curriculum is a year-long program that people from various churches have taken, and entire leadership teams from different churches have been trained. The results so far have exceeded expectations in terms of group health, vibrancy, speed of change, and teamwork. As one woman remarked, “I feel like I have learned what Christianity is for the first time.”

Ministries we coordinate from our local base in St. Petersburg (which now reach the Russian-speaking world in about a dozen countries), have included:

• Real Talk seminar
• leadership training experience “All for One”
• church ministry conferences and trainings
• Christian life coaching
• professional life coaching training through Lifeforming Leadership Coaching
• personal prayer ministry, individual or family counseling
• prayer minister training through Transformation Prayer Ministry
• Master Classes over Tea
• Citywide pastors’ roundtable
• Conversational evangelism
• Direct ministry to Christian leaders and churches on an as-needed basis, such as intensive multi-disciplinary interventions or trainings we provide on site around the country.
• Board game. As a complement to our Real Talk training, we are in the final stages of developing a fun interactive way to practice its concepts.
• Business chaplaincy is a new project that started this summer, where we have formed a team of Christian business coaches and consultants who will be offering professional services to businesses with the aim of reaching unsaved owners, managers, and staff with the Good News through serving their practical needs. Eventually we hope to actually have “pastors at work” for some large companies.

We focus in five areas:

Spiritual Intelligence = asking the Lord where to focus, what He is already doing, and how to cooperate with Him.
Cultural Outreach = strengthening and mobilizing existing churches and investing in emerging leaders in other areas of society
Strategy, planning and organization = providing the structure for our other teams to function within
Care and Oversight = making sure all the other teams are healthy and growing personally in faith, love, and effectiveness
Pioneering Initiatives = investing in the creative dreams of leaders who make and multiply disciples among those who do not know the Lord

As part of the worldwide mission of Novo (formerly CRM), “we are a team of teams, determined, innovative, and responsive to the Spirit, cooperating in tandem with God’s Kingdom purposes for Russia. We are disciples, deeply committed to knowing and following Jesus. We are fire starters, multiplying our impact by equipping, empowering, and collaborating with others. We are risk takers, rising to new challenges, willing to lay our lives on the line for the cause of Christ. We share the best we have to multiply gospel movements. And we believe that nothing is as important as reaching the nations with the Good News of Jesus.” Support Novo Russia here.