FEBC of Canada is hosting their yearly Friendship Dinner in Brandon on Sunday March 22 and 1:15 pm at the Victoria Inn in Brandon MB. This years featured speaker is Dr. Rudi Wiens - the Regional Coordinator of FEBC Eurasia. “I was a terrible solider of the Soviet Army” reflects Rudi Wiens. “I came from a Christian family in Orsk, Russia and while enlisted I was constantly being detained and questioned about my faith. The plan was to indoctrinate me or even imprison me for opposing the official Communist ideology. Fortunately God intervened and I was allowed to immigrate with my parent’s family to West Germany.” "I remember growing up in Russia only having access to a hand copied portion of the Scriptures,” recalls Rudi. “We had no Christian literature, only radio broadcast via short-waves from FEBC, including the Bible dictation which gave us the hand-written portions of God’s Word.” Dr. Wiens is fluent in Russian, German and English and has been with FEBC since 1982. Come and hear what God is doing to reach the peoples of Germany, Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan, with the gospel of Jesus Christ. There is no cost to attend and a free-will offering will be taken at the banquet.