Mission Sites
 07 Dec 2007

 

This is the Central Baptist Church  in Ufa. The sign on the peak below the cross says "House of Prayer for All Peoples" (Is 56:7). The membership of this church is about 230. It is the largest Baptist church in Bashkortostan.

 In this building Russians, Ukrainians, Bashkorts, Tatars, and Americans  regularly meet together for worship.

20 new believers were baptized in Russian Baptist Churches in Ufa in 2005

Peter Ivanovich Zhuk is the senior pastor for all Baptist churches in Bashkortostan.

Peter Zhuk is not only senior pastor for all Bashkort Baptists, he also serves as pastor for the Good News Baptist Church in Ufa, as well as serving as one of the 7 vice-presidents for the Russian Baptist Union  (RBU);

At the RBU he has responsibilities for 5 large regions of Russia

1. 1000 Baptist believers across Bashkortostan (approx., as of 1/2006)

2. 5200 Other evangelical believers across Bashkortostan ( as of  12/2005)

3. 18 pastors missionaries serving across Bashkortostan (5 of them in Ufa)

4. 16 local missionaries serving across Bashkortostan

5. 26 Russian Union Baptist churches across Bashkortostan
 

In December, 2005 Peter was unanimously re-elected to serve 4 more years as senior pastor for all Baptists in Bashkortostan.
 

Peter  is married and has 8 children, and has a great heart to reach all of Bashkortostan with the good news of Jesus Christ.     

Please  pray for Peter, his family  and his  ministry.
The following three Tatar Pastors  are praying that God will show them how, when, and where to organize the first national Tatar Baptist congress so that all Tatar believers may come together and worship and plan together in their own native language. The Day of Prayer for Tatars is on July 27.
Pastor Farit (pronounced "Fa-reet")  is from Davlekanova where he is  a Tatar church planter.
Nail (pronounced Na-eel) serves Blagoveschensk.

Nov. 14, 2001. Last Saturday and Sunday in a small town named Blagoveschensk, many evangelicals gathered and showed the Jesus film, performed a Christian concert, and shared the good news.  Approx 300 inquirers attended during the two days.  70 of them indicated on response cards that they had either received Christ as personal Savior, wanted to participate in a bible study, or wanted further information. 

 

Prayer requests from Kameel  and his wife Ola who is a Sunday School teacher:

 
1. That God will call out local believers who know Tatar and Bashkir to be willing to work in  radio ministry
 
2. For the possibility to broadcast evangelistic programs on a more local level instead of having them beamed into the region only thru shortwave
 
3. That God will call out/provide teachers for children's Sunday School classes at the main Baptist Church in Ufa (House of Prayer)
 
4. That the Sunday School teachers would work and serve with reckless abandon, thru God's  motivation and not for people's praise or attention
 
5. That all the children who recently attended Christian summer camps would become involved in bible study thru local Sunday School classes