Grace Church, Ufa
07 Dec 2007

December 2005

There are now 27 members in the church.  They are involved in several  ministries and activities including:

1. Ministry to drug addicts and alcoholics (doing counseling, referrals to the Baptists' rehab centers in B-stan, and ministering to families of alcoholics and addicts).

2. Leading evangelistic Bible studies in two different parts of Ufa.

3. Evangelizing students and youth through a café/coffeehouse approach using Grace's facilities on Sunday evenings.

4. Baptizing 3 new believers this past year; 2 others are awaiting baptism as of early Feb 2006 as they go through pre-baptismal discipleship

5. They are meeting every Friday evening for prayer together; the Lord is really blessing them in this time together and developing an intimacy.

 6. Ministering by song and preaching in other churches in B-stan.

 7. They are in early stages of developing a feeding ministry to the poor in one part of the city where the infrastructure is underdeveloped and the educational/social status level is much lower than in other parts of
Ufa.

 8. They are in early stages of seeking the Lord as to doing evangelism in villages outside of Ufa for the purposes of starting new churches there.

And all of this from a small church with under 30 members.  To God be the glory!  We want Grace to reproduce itself this year by planting a new church from its midst along with new believers.

In the above picture of Grace Church, five of the members are former drug addicts who have been saved, delivered of addiction, and are now involved in evangelistic work for the kingdom of God.  God is good!
 

Pray for a new church which met for the first time on January 25, 2004 here in Ufa. Grace Baptist Church was launched  after much prayer. The first week we had 17 in worship. The second week we had 16  attending.

Grace Church is renting a small room in a local library and is also meeting in a local apartment two other nights during the week for bible study and prayer time together. They recognize that these are temporary locations.

Pray for leaders, Zhenya and Sasha, as they preach, receive leadership training, and visit folks with the Good News. 

Pray that the Lord would add new believers to this new fellowship.

Pray that God might protect this young congregation.