Christmas meetings at Gazprom Transgaz Stavropol

On January 14, the Culture and Sports Palace of Gazprom Transgaz Stavropol hosted a charitable Christmas celebration for children.

The gas workers welcomed over five hundred children from a social rehabilitation center for minors of the Tishchenskoye village, Solnyshko orphanage No. 4 of the Solnechnodolsk settlement, a boarding school of the Podluzhnoye village, and from regional low-income and multi-child families. Also taking part in the Christmas celebration were Sunday school pupils from the Izobilny town, the Ryzdvyany, Peredovoy, Solnechnodolsk, Rozhdestvenskaya, Novotroitskaya and Filimonovskaya settlements, as well as the Moskovskoye and Ptichye villages.

First, a celebratory worship service was held at the Church of the Nativity in the Ryzdvyany settlement, and then the children went to the Culture and Sports Palace of Gazprom Transgaz Stavropol, where treats as well as a large concert prepared by the company’s best creative teams were waiting for them. After the concert all the children received presents and greeting cards.

“We have been participating in charitable celebrations organized by gas workers for our children over the years,” said Olga Shiryaeva, a psychologist from the social rehabilitation center for minors in the Tishchenskoye village. “The children always come back in a good mood from Ryzdvyany, showing each over presents and sharing their impressions with friends.”

Alexey Zavgorodnev, Director General of Gazprom Transgaz Stavropol, emphasized: “Christmas is one of the most important Eastern Orthodox holidays.” He expressed his hope that the soul of every child would be full of only heavenly thoughts, the heart – full of kindness, and they would grow up always giving help to adults.