Family missionary festival in the Kolomna Kremlin 09/13/2026translated

On September 13, 2026, at the Church of the Exaltation of the Cross in the city of Kolomna in the Kolomna Kremlin, the Family Missionary Festival “Where there is gingerbread, there is a holiday” was held, organized by the Department for Missionary Work and Youth Affairs of the Kolomna Diocese, the “Russian Community” of Kolomna and the Guild of Gingerbread Masters and Banner Makers of Russia. During the event, a missionary action was organized on the territory of the Kolomna Kremlin with individual conversations with passers-by. Before the start of the family festival, the chairman of the Department for Missionary Work and Youth Affairs of the Kolomna Diocese, the rector of the church, Priest John Bakushkin, addressed the audience. For the guests, performances by the ensembles “Elegy” and the folk song “Malinovka”, sensory games and the creation of a musical toy from the song and dance theater “Star Children”, demonstration performances and master classes of the historical dance club “Kolomensky Ball”, craft master classes and folk games, sports competitions and tea drinking for all guests were organized.