2021-10-28
During the heating season-2021, Amur Coal JSC helps its social partners in the Amur region. Charitable coal from the company was received by the local religious organization of the Orthodox parish in honor of the “Holy Great Martyr Catherine” of the village of Yekaterinoslavka of the Oktyabrsky district of the Amur region, as well as the Diocesan Convent in honor of the Albazinsky Icon of the Mother of God in the village of Srednebelaya of the Ivanovo district of the Amur region.
Among the company’s social partners is a Sunday school operating at the church in honor of the Great Martyr Catherine in the village of Yekaterinoslavka in the Oktyabrsky district of the Amur region. Every week, children from religious families and not only gather here to study the law of God, learn to read in Church Slavonic and master church singing. The Sunday school has a warm family atmosphere, children, sometimes with their parents or grandmothers, are happy to attend various events and creative classes: choral singing, origami, drawing. Various competitions, intellectual and sports, are also held.
“In winter, of course, it is difficult to heat the church and Sunday school. But for many years, the miners have been providing us with charitable assistance in the form of coal, providing the church and Sunday school with heat for the entire heating season, which lasts 8 months,” says the rector of the church, Priest Vasily Khokhlov.
During the existence of the Sunday school, its own traditions have developed here. For example, for Christmas, together with the children, a nativity scene is made of snow and Christmas tree branches. After the labors in the fresh frosty air – a tea party with homemade cakes and a heart-to-heart conversation. “Rehearsals begin long before the holiday. After all, the guys will have to give a small concert on January 7 for everyone who came to the temple that day. And after it, they hurry to share their Christmas joy with the children from the October Social Rehabilitation Center for Minors. A small concert is also given for them at a beautiful Christmas tree, and, of course, gifts made by the guys and sweets are given. And here it cannot do without the help of our friends from the Amur Coal. Thanks to the miners, all the children from the rehabilitation center and everyone who came to the temple on this day receive sweet gifts,” explains Priest Vasily Khokhlov, rector of the church of the Great Martyr Catherine.
