Alexey Ivshin, a member of the Living Free faculty in Russia, conducted a training seminar in Gorno-Altaisk as part of a Teen Challenge Russia Leadership Training Institute.  Alexey has led a number of seminars in Russia and has years of experience with Living Free groups.  He has conducted many Insight groups in his home city of Izhevsk. 

Twenty-five students participated in the recent seminar. Each of these students received copies of the Living Free Video Training in Russian and copies of the basic Living Free curriculum to use in their home cities.

Living Free is blessed to be in a cooperative ministry effort with Teen Challenge Russia,  Global Teen Challenge, and OneHope  so that rehabilitation ministries and churches are equipped with new tools they can use to reach and help people struggling with life-controlling problems. 

Missionary Kevin Tyler with Global Teen Challenge reports training 75 participants in Kazakhstan with the Russian language Living Free materials. About half the participants came from area churches and half from local Teen Challenge ministries.  According to Kevin, participants are enthusiastic about beginning the small groups. They also commented on the excellent quality of the Russian video translation. Other Central Asian Republics are also interested.

The fact that the Russian language version of the Living Free video training is now available for viewing on the Internet and the basic Russian group curriculum can be downloaded from anywhere in the world is making it possible for more countries to adopt the Living Free small groups.