An international Christian spiritual conference will be held in the Bulgarian Field at the IMS from Friday, August 21, 2026, to Sabbath, August 22, 2026, in Sofia, Bulgaria’s capital city, under the motto “In much wisdom is much grief”, according to the Lord’s Word in Ecclesiastes 1:18, Pastor Dimitar Vlachkov, Bulgarian Field President at the IMS, confirmed. Pastor Vladimire Marinov, European Division Committee Member at the IMS, Brother Yavor Cholakov from the British Field, and some brethren who come from Africa, shall participate in the Christian conference as well.
Bulgaria, today officially Republic of Bulgaria, was founded in 681 A. D., and in 9th century the Bible was translated into Bulgarian by the first Bulgarian Christian apostles, Cyril and Methodius. During the reign of the King Ivan Asen the Second from 1218 to 1241, Bulgaria’s territory reached three seas – the Black Sea, the Aegean Sea, called by the Bulgarians the White Sea as well, and Adriatic Sea – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Asen_II, and after his victory against Theodore Komnenos Doukas, King Ivan Asen the Second freed the captured Greek soldiers who belonged to the army of Theodore Komnenos Doukas, gave them to eat and drink, and let them go home, applying the Lord’s Word in Romans 12:20.
Written by Margarit Zhekov
Pastor Vladimire Marinov with his translator Tanya Zhekova during a missionary trip in Russia in 2019; a photo from the personal archive.
