Baptists seek to carry the Gospel to Russia’s struggling ‘people of the woods,’ the Udmurts. One of the larger non-Muslim groups in Russia, the Udmurts have been nominal adherents of the Russian Orthodox Church, but that mingles with older, deeper layers of animism and nature worship. Commission Stories Content. Telling stories of what God is doing around the world. If you are having trouble viewing the multimedia content, you may not have the latest version of the Adobe Flash Player