Dear
Fellow Laborers,
August
2004
Praise
the Lord for the exciting things He is doing in Russia!
Leading
the Ministry while
Bro. Charters is in America
This
month my wife and I were blessed with the opportunity to lead
the church for more than a month. I preached on Sunday mornings,
and led the discipleship on Wednesday nights. My wife took over
the Sunday school program. I also got the blessing of leading
our choir. I do not know how well we did, but we definitely sang
loud enough for everyone to hear. Many churches experience an
80% decrease in attendance in the summer time here. However, God
blessed as the church had a great summer average attendance of
over 40 people.

Bible
Distribution to the Regions Beyond
There
are many towns that surround St. Petersburg but take about an
hour to travel to by bus from the center of the city where our
church is located. Along with missionaries Andrew Bunnell, Keith
Sampson, and others from our church, God burdened our hearts to
go out to different areas including Gatchina, Kolpina, and Luga
and share God’s Word. The farthest city was almost two hours
away from the south end of St. Petersburg. Our prayer is that
each of these places would have a fundamental Baptist church,
but until that happens we wanted to sow the seed with many people
who had never owned a Bible. We handed out 1200 New Testaments,
and thousands of tracks to these needy areas.
One
of our most Faithful Teens
makes the decision to get Baptized
Vika,
who is one of our most faithful teens, always had a hard time
submitting in the area of baptism. While preaching on the subject
of truth in the main service Sunday morning, God touched Vika’s
heart and she made the decision to submit to God’s will.

Future Plans
I
will be talking much more about this is the future, but at the
beginning of next year, my wife and I are planning to move to
the south of Russia to begin our own church planting ministry.
Please pray that God would make a way for us to minister to the
spiritual needs of the people in this area.
Yours
in Christ,
Adam, Angela, and Alex
