Week of Prayer for Yaroslavl, Russia

Tomorrow, Team Golden Ring will kick-off the 4th Annual Week of Prayer for the Golden Ring and this year Yaroslavl is the focus!!! Please join us this week as we pray for our great city!!!

Yaroslavl is one of the main cities of Russia’s Golden Ring, a ring of the most historic cities of the nation. The population is currently over 650,000 people and is located at the intersection of the Volga and Kotrosol rivers about 160 miles north of Moscow. It has become a modern city with a growing economy. New businesses and shopping malls can be seen all over the city. Historically, Yaroslavl has the honor of being the first Christian city founded along the Volga River when Yaroslavl the Wise first arrived to find a pagan people worshipping a bear. Yaroslavl the Wise is said to have fought and killed the bear, won the allegiance of the people and converted them to Christianity. Unfortunately, the city has done little to live up to this reputation. The people here are being destroyed spiritually and physically by alcoholism, abortion, suicide and materialism.

This photo is of a statue of Yaroslavl the Wise in the center of Yaroslavl.