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October 25, 2001
Praise
the Lord for a recent national Bashkir-Tatar evangelical congress.
There were 55 participants. Each participant received two gifts:
the first modern Tatar evangelical hymnal, and the first complete
Tatar New Testament. The congress was a wonderful time
for believers from these two ethnic groups to gather for worship, prayer,
bible study, encouragement, singing, fellowship, and discussion
about how to best take the good news to their people groups. There were
several folks who heard about Jesus as Saviour for the first time during
the congress.
Pray
for a future congress to be held again next year in another part of
the republic.
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| October 18, 2001
We ask prayer for Eileen as she is carrying twins who will be due in
late April or early May. Pray for wisdom relating to decision
about where the babies will be born. Pray for good health for
Eileen and normal development of the babies, and that they will not be
born prematurely.
Pray for a scripture distribution project which is tentatively planned
over the next 7 months in various parts of the republic here. Pray
that evangelistic tracts (to be stuffed inside the Bibles) will enable
recipients with a method to respond to what they read about salvation in
the Bible.
Pray for two new bible studies which have recently begun in the
republic. Pray for provision of a room for worship and study for one of
the new groups.
Pray for the Jesus film team which is responding to opportunities to
show the Jesus film and invite respondents to evangelistic bible
studies.
Praise the Lord for the many children and their parents in a local town
who are beginning to respond to the good news thru bible studies and
special events. Pray that a room be found to rent for worship
services and further bible studies.
Pray that the Lord provide us a cost-efficient place to hold a strategic
church-planting conference at the end of November. So far, 70
individuals have committed to participating in this conference.
Praise the Lord for various individuals who are considering joining our
ministry team. Pray that the Lord would guide them through the
appointment process.
Pray that the Lord would provide additional drug-rehab workers at an
evangelistic rehabilitation center here in the republic. This
ministry has been greatly needed and greatly effective and it
desperately needs further trained workers; drug/alcohol addiction is a
massive problem here in the republic and only the delivering power of
Jesus will completely set free those in bondage.
If you would be interested in becoming a prayer leader to help build our
prayer network, please let us or Jeff Anderson (stauros@charter.net)
know. Ongoing,
intercessory prayer and fasting will be the tools that God uses to tear
down spiritual
strongholds and trigger a church-planting movement here in Bashkortostan...does
your heart grieve for the lost here as ours does?
We are all well here, although we continue to grieve on behalf of our
fellow Americans who are enduring so much insecurity in the USA and
other parts of the world. We would encourage each of you to
continue to be on mission with God, who has not relinquished His throne.
Now is the time to boldly push forward to take the good news and the
name of God unto all people groups. It is not a time for a retreat, but
rather a time to focus and thrust ahead in
God's great mission!!!
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