The annual Advent Music Festival took place on November 26, at the initiative of non-profit organization Prosvet and 
with the support of Concordia Foundation. It is already the eighth year that this Festival of Christian music and culture is being conducted in St. Petersburg. Every year about 600 people of various ages, both believers and those who are just attracted to it by music, come to this Festival for advertisements are being put up all over the city.
Sixteen Christian groups performed at the Festival this year. These groups represented all sorts of musical styles so each person was able to find something they really liked.
And Concordia Foundation’s staff took care of providing all those who came with some spiritual food. We had volunteers giving out invitations to Study the Bible. There was also a stand where people could by products issued by the Foundation: books and desk calendars with the Bible quotes for each month, T-shirts with a call on them to share faith with others, and music CDs When God’s is Near. Besides that every person who was interested in evolution theory points of issue got a brochure Splinters of the False Mirror that shows all inconsistencies that this theory has with the real picture of the earth’s origin.
It was interesting coincidence that took place during this day. Right behind the stand of Concordia Fund there was another big hall where Ballet Festival of youth from St. Petersburg and other cities of Russia took place.
There was opportunity for these young men and girl of quite another world of Art to have information about Christian activity and had possibility to take some materials from Concordia table. There was indeed the meeting of the two subcultures: the classic and modern and both of them were attracted many visitors.
The Advent Music Festival lasted from eleven o’clock in the morning till eleven o’clock at night, and all this while there were lots of people from both Festivals near the Foundation’s stand.
They came up to us and asked questions, showed interest in what was presented at the stand, they bought some things or got some gifts to learn more (through the correspondence lessons) about that faith that they saw at the Advent Music Festival.
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