Licensing Update

Many of our supporters are aware that our school in Moscow is applying for a license to function as a school. Currently, we are a religious organization that offers seminars and other religious functions. With a license, we would be recognized officially as a school in Russia.

The licensing process has been an adventure filled with lots of bureaucratic minutiae, securing permits from various state departments (such as the fire department, sanitary department, etc.). Tomorrow, we will submit all of the paperwork for our application for our license.

You might remember that ETSM had already registered the application package. In Ilya's words:

We need your prayer support. Mr. Alexander Petrovich Gruzkov is the Head of the Licensing Office will be the Chairperson at the meeting of Expert Committee. The committee is to come on sight of the Seminary to see what did we write in the application package and compare papers with reality. Mr. Alexander Gruzkov is a King at these types of Expert committees' meetings.

So, the proverb 21:1 goes like this: "The king's heart is like channels of water in the hand of the LORD; He turns it wherever He wishes". I ask your prayer, so that this king, Mr. Gruzkov, would want to accept our docs and proceed with no red tape.