Dear Fellow Laborers,

December 2007

Praise the Lord for the exciting things He is doing in Russia!

 

Teaching English to Reach the Lost

It is always more difficult here to reach people with the Gospel during the winter months. The most fruit we have seen has been from soul-winning outdoors in the parks and on the streets. When the weather turns cold, so do our results. Alexander, who is a college student that got saved this summer, recently mentioned that the English program at his teacher’s university had recently been discontinued.
When I approached Alexander about reaching his friends with the Gospel in this way, he was all for it. He thought that many of his friends would be eager to work on their English, and that this would be a great tool to introduce the Gospel to them. They all know that I am a Baptist missionary and want to know what being a Baptist means.
Our first couple of classes went well. We have had a total of six in attendance. Anya, who Alexander brought to study the Bible with us once, has been coming. Also Artryom, Sergie, Zhenya, Olga have started to come.
Please pray for this outreach. We are only planning on doing this while it is cold. When it gets warm again, we will then focus exclusively on street and park evangelism. Pray that by the time the class ends we will see some fruit that remains.

This is Alexander who is starting the English class with me to reach his friends with the Gospel.

Moving our Office

Just about every year we have been in the country we have had to move our office/meeting place. I thought that maybe this year would be different, but our land lady just told us that she was going to raise the rent to twice as much as we could possibly pay for a one room apartment. Right now we could get by doing what we do (one on one discipleship and English classes) in a one room apartment. It will be a little cramped, but the sooner we can get our own place to meet the better, and what we save on rent can go to building programs. We are also buying a small storage shed to put on our land for building materials and New Testaments so moving will be easier next time. Please pray that we will be able to find a place that we will be able to use for God’s glory, but that the price would be right.

Furlough in the Planning

We are expecting to receive an answer about our permanent residency in February. We are waiting until then to schedule churches from September through the first week of November 2008. Our furloughs will be shorter at three months (in order to keep our residency), but we want to come to America every two years so that we can report to all of our churches.

Yours in Christ,
Adam, Angela, Alex, Amelia, and Alisa