In anticipation of Christmas, our team, consisting of adults, youth, and teenagers, embarked on a journey to Muslim villages. Over 4 days, we covered 1500 km (about 932 miles), including 750 km (about 466 miles) off-road, and visited 12 settlements. We shared the joyful news of the Birth of Jesus, handed out 600 gifts, and Christmas calendars in the national Tatar language. In total, our team managed to reach around 900 people.
These were children and their parents, administrative staff, and Muslim religious leaders. The team included both experienced ministering brothers and young boys eager to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ. In all this, the Lord powerfully worked in us and through us.
Special thanks to everyone who responded to God’s call and embarked on this difficult and dangerous missionary journey. Thanks to everyone who served with prayers. Thanks to everyone who donated their finances for the ministry. Thanks to everyone who hosted us overnight and fed us. I praise the Lord for His church; together we are a force in the hands of our God.
We returned a few days ago from a two-week missionary trip. We prayed for that trip many years, and behold, glory to the Lord it took place. The Lord let me drive 5 thousand km through the western part of Russia. We visited 7 rehabilitation gospel centers and testified of the wonderful things God has done. A total of 250 more people heard the good news about our Savior. In addition, we shared a lot of joy great joy in their hearts, and we exchanged experiences and advanced the kingdom of God on earth. Many people accepted the Savior, and Christians glorified our heavenly Father when learning about His wonderful action in the ministry of mercy, on our Siberian land. During the trip, a brother called us and asked for help for a person who recently had his leg amputated. Today, Gennady is in our shelter. He came from Uzbekistan and lost all his documents. Hospitals are only giving him first aid, but can’t do anything else for him do.
I believe that the Lord will continue to take care of Gennady and others. We have 30 visitors who are currently living with us. And I thank you all, my friends, for your participation in the life and fate of these people. We are grateful and pray for you!
On behalf of everybody, I express to you sincere thanks for your prayers and support in the distribution of Christmas gifts and evangelistic sets – for children and adults. Despite quarantine, we still managed to hold a Christmas performance and gave gifts. 35 children and 44 adults children and adults came from our village.
The participation of youth from Omsk affected the hearts of my eldest daughter, Polina (12), and son Semyon (9) and they expressed their desire to serve other people.
We drove through the villages and handed out gifts, and they
participated actively in the ministry. They changed with us in costumes shepherds
and did not hesitate to talk about their faith in Jesus and His wonderful
birth. We visited three villages and handed out 150 gifts and about 200 Gospels.
Thank you for your participation and assistance in expanding His Kingdom!
A car is vital to our ministry. We praise the Lord that our ministry is expanding, but the car can no longer handle all the tasks with the assigned functions and tasks. Often you have to go to the city and transport not only people but also products food: cereals, butter, sugar.
We not only provide dairy products to our community, but we are happy to share with other communities. We also transport meat, milk, cottage cheese, sour cream, and eggs to their markets. Food products are in high demand, and we provide people high quality and healthy food, some from our own production. We also transport children twice a week to English classes, to a family of a missionary in the village which is over 31 miles away. We deliver clothes and groceries to neighboring villages. During winter our car had trouble driving around in snowy roads among forests and fields. Thanks to your help construction is underway to make improvements to our building – and therefore we often have to bring and Construction Materials.
That car which we have is small and weak and because of
large loads, often began to break. And we, prayerfully we ask you to help us in
purchasing another larger car, more spacious and able to carry a trailer. May
the Lord bless you.
Our Lord “ate and drank with the tax collectors and sinners”, because He came for “the sick, not the healthy”. People who turn to us for help are broken by sin. They don’t have destinies, and their souls are dark. But, the Lord is alive and merciful – He gives strength and opportunities, patience and compassion for those whom He brings to our abode.
Roma’s story is unique, he is 43 years old, but sin has already crippled him so much that barley living. Roman had his toes and hands amputated. And has frostbite on his legs and knees that are constantly bleeding. He suffers from epilepsy throws himself on the ground.
He lost his parents at the age of 13, and soon after he lost the housing that he inherited. He came to us after leaving the hospital, where he was once again because he was drunk and fell from the 4th floor. Now, added to all his sinful “rewards,” he has now a head injury, with craniotomy and constant headaches. Roman’s pension, like many people in his case, is minimal and not even enough for medicine. He clings to the opportunity given to him by Jesus to live, he loves to read, but because of a headache, he can’t read books. Thank you for your participation in the ministry of saving the lost.
In the middle of August, strangers called me and started telling me about an elderly man who needs help. They told me that at the beginning of summer, a middle-aged man brought an old man who could barely walk to an empty house next to them. He brought him there and just left. Approximately every 10 days, this man came back with a small bag and left a few hours later. The old man, his name is Victor, practically never appeared on the street. And the man who brought him here was his son.
He sold his father’s apartment, and brought him to a half-destroyed house, with no lights or heating. Before he sold his father’s apartment, he promised to take care of him. So, every 10 days, he brought him in a small bag several cans of food and 2 loaves of bread. Also, he is withholding his father’s small pension for himself. But that’s not all: as it turned out, the elderly man began to walk even worse, but this was due to the fact that the son was beating him almost every time he came, whenever they had disagreements.
When the neighbors learned about it, they called us, and now, glory to the Lord, Victor is with us now. The process of his rehabilitation will be very difficult and lengthy, because he has broken legs, can only move with great pain, and he does not have a single document about him – everything is with his son. Additionally, he also began to lose his hearing. He is very much disappointed in life, and we ask you to pray for his soul. Praise the Lord that he is with us. Now Victor can still live and enjoy real care.
