May
31, 2005
WE NEED SOME KNEE ACTION ON ITEM NUMBER SEVEN ASAP
PLEASE! THANK YOU FOR PRAYING! WE LOVE YOU!
1)
Team
Ufa asks you to pray for a mission team from
The Church at
Battle Creek in
Tulsa,
Oklahoma, that will be working alongside us
from May 29th until June the 9th. Ask the Lord to work
in them and through them to plant Gospel seeds, beckon those they come in
contact with to faith in Christ, and proclaim the name of Jesus in the
mega-city of
Ufa. Ask the Lord to change the lives of
both those who reside in
Ufa, and those who will be coming on the
team.
2) Team
Ufa asks you to pray for students in our
English Club. Nearly every Saturday evening since early February, the team has
read articles and discussed film clips on spiritual topics with about 15
students who desire to hone their English. The second half of the two hour
lesson has been spent either reading an English language Bible or reading and
answering the questions posed in an inductive Bible study. To date, no one has
repented and come to faith in Christ. And soon, most of those who attend the
class will be going home to the villages as the college semester ends. Pray
that God might work through His Word to bring the students in our English Club
to faith and salvation in Him.
3) Team
Ufa asks you to pray for the Sipailovo
(sea-PIE-lah-vah) district of Ufa. The bedroom district of Sipailovo is home
to a populace of some 250,000 souls, several casinos and gambling clubs, a
strip joint, and a mosque, but has no Christian church or witness. The
international church planting team is now in somewhat of a disarray and church
planting efforts have stalled. There is uncertainty as to how to proceed and
disagreements over what kind of methodology to use. Moreover, our Russian
brothers believe that before there can be any ministry in Sipailovo, a trained
and called Russian brother must oversee the efforts there. But, five months
after we rented an apartment in Sipailovo, with donated American funds, to
serve as a base of evangelism in the area, no such leader willing to shoulder
responsibility for ministry in Sipailovo has been identified. Sipailovo’s
populace has not been substantially engaged with the Gospel. Very little
ministry has been done. Pray that God might identify a Russian team leader for
Sipailovo. Pray that despite our human frailties, God might glorify himself by
planting a church in Sipailovo.
4) Team
Ufa asks you to pray for two young men who
will be joining us in July from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.
Pray that God might protect these two young men from sin. Pray that because of
the summer missionaries’ obedience to Him and the Almighty’s great mercy that
the Father might bless and confirm the work of their hands while they are in
Ufa. Ask the Lord to work in them and
through them to reach the Russian speaking people of this great mega-city. Ask
the Lord to transform their lives and the lives of those that they come in
contact with during the month that they are here.
5)
Team
Ufa asks you to pray for three
Kiev
Bible
School co-eds who will be working
along side us in
Ufa in July and August. Pray that the
document registration, ministry plans, and logistical arrangements for the
three young women might be fleshed out to God’s glory. Pray that as our
Ukrainian sisters walk the streets of
Ufa, God will clearly reveal to them where
he is working and that they will in turn join Him in His work resulting in
changed lives and the spiritual rebirth of some of those in
Ufa who are now groping in spiritual
darkness. Ask the Lord to protect the women from Satan’s attacks and use them
and work through them mightily in the mega-city of
Ufa.
6) Team
Ufa asks you to pray for Victor and
Susan Bauer who will be visiting with us in
July on a Vision Trip. The Bauers are seeking God’s will concerning the
possibility of joining Team Ufa for at least two to three years via the
Masters’ Program. Ask the Lord to clearly reveal himself to Victor and Susan
while they are with us. Pray that by the time their plane touches down on U.S.
soil on their return trip, that they will have a word from the Lord and know
His will beyond a shadow of a doubt, whether it be Ufa, their native New
Mexico, or some other location. Pray that the Bauers will seek the Lord with
all their hearts and that He might show them great and mighty things that they
know not of.
7) Team
Ufa asks you to pray for the mission team from The Church at Battle Creek in
Tulsa. Tomorrow (Wednesday), at 11 p.m. Tuesday evening your time, the Battle
Creek Team will begin to work in the Sipailovo region of Ufa, home to a
quarter of the city's populace but no Christian church or witness. The Battle
Creek team will be prayer walking and passing out free lightbulbs with
invitations to Bible studies and worship services. Pray that God might put His
sovereign hand of protection on the relatively young (high school and young
college age) mission team and work through them despite the vast differences
between their culture and the culture that they are invading over the next 9
days. Pray that they might see God's mighty hand at work and be able to return
home with stories of what God has done. Pray that miraculously, in some very
tough and rocky soil, that they might be able to plant some Gospel seeds that
will finally bear fruit in Sipailovo.
Thank you again for praying for us. Without prayer
support, it would be senseless to carry on here. Love and Peace in Christ,
Larry in Ufa
