Watch our Belarus story on this CBN News Report!

July 2015

As promised, we are providing a link to the Christian Broadcasting Network’s story about the recent trip that the Capitol Ministries team and friends took to Belarus in Eastern Europe so you may view many of the events first-hand.

Please click here to watch the full story. The trip was filled with events and was historic for many reasons, including, for the first time in history, a presentation was made before the Belarusian Parliament by a U.S. Congressman.

Congressman Steve Pearce, 2nd D, New Mexico, who is a leading sponsor of Capitol Ministries in DC, talked to Belarus national leaders about the Biblical foundations of the U.S. Constitution and why values such as honesty, truth, integrity, fairness, hope and faith are vital foundational building blocks for an emergent nation.

The speech paved the way for Pastor Oleg Rachkovski, Capitol Ministries’ newly-named Eastern Europe Director, to establish a Bible study for his country’s national leaders in the Belarus Capitol in Minsk, which is currently underway.

The Capitol Ministries contingent, headed by Drollinger, traveled to Belarus in May at the invitation of Russian-born Mikhail Morgulis, writer, theologian and President of his U.S.-headquartered ministry, Spiritual Diplomacy. Pastor Morgulis was asked by Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko to spearhead efforts to examine ways to broaden the use of the Bible in the nation’s culture.

Representing the Washington DC’s Museum of The Bible (MOTB) during the trip, Danielle Drollinger presented the MOTB’s Public School Curriculum, “The Bible As Literature” to the Belarusian minister of Public Education. Also part of the contingent was Bill Alexson, former Boston Celtic Chaplain, and the President of Sportspower International Ministries who brought a team of retired NBA players to compete with the Belarusian national team in a nationally-televised game. During half time Alexon and the players gave their personal Christian testimonies and presented the Gospel message.

Capitol Ministries asks for your prayers that the relationships and bridges formed during the trip will continue to prosper.

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Kevin Cramer

North Dakota

In the Senate Bible study, we drill down pretty deep. We spend weeks on end if not on a single verse, then on a single chapter, and several weeks on a specific passage to begin to understand intellectually. We, as politicians are naturally intellectually curious, and so to be able to apply that to Scripture with the benefit of good teaching, and the additional benefit of collective wisdom of the participants is very rich. The Bible study also allows us to drill down on theology and doctrine and application of Scripture. Perhaps the most important thing at the end of the day is that we have a source of encouragement, and a source of direction and a source of correction that is really important to the decisions we make as individuals and as an institution.

Sen. Cramer attends Ralph Drollinger’s Bible study to Members of the U.S. Senate that meets every week on the Hill in Washington, D.C.

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Dr. Dan DeShong

As CapMin’s Director of Local Government Ministries, I am seeking qualified candidates to establish weekly Bible studies to city and county elected and appointed public servants across the United States. I also led the first LGM Bible study to city and county commissioners in the greater Sacramento, CA area. I taught the curriculum, Oaks in Office: Biblical Essays for Political Leaders, which contains the most pertinent Bible studies Ralph Drollinger, President and Founder of Capitol Ministries, has authored to meet the spiritual, personal, and professional needs of Christian legislators over his more than 25 year ministry. Our Sacramento group is still meeting to study the Bible and we are studying Oaks in Office a second time.

The experience was exhilarating to say the least! None of us had any idea that the Bible had so much to say about immigration, parenting, racism, deficit spending, and other contemporary issues. One elected official had planned to leave politics and now he says, “No wonder God has me in this position!“

As Christians, we sort of take biblical precepts and doctrines for granted, but when the issues are broken out in specific chapters like Ralph has done in Oaks in Office, they become very clear and very real.

This first group was pretty excited about this study and will be sharing their story with city and county commissioners around the country. Who knows where God will take this?

Ministries to local government public servants have been planted in California, Texas, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Oregon, Idaho, Missouri, Ohio, and in dozens of provinces and territories in European nations.

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