Abner and I have been spending the last few month training and equipping youth from the church so that they know how to study and preach the Word, give their testimonies and getting folks saved into the Kingdom. These kids shared with me about their desire to become missionaries and go in Jesus name to the ends of the Earth. Finally, last week I had the great privilege of leading a team of about 15 youth to the missions field where we did an evangelical outreach in a small city called Kirilov and a small village Torzhok, which is about 20 km. away from Kirilov. There is a Christian couple there in Torzhok who have been praying for a church for a while so we were hoping to get something started there. And the small church in Kirilov pastored by a great friend, Yuri, has a hard time preaching the Gospel and getting people saved because there is an old Russian Orthodox monastery there that has a pretty tight hold on everything. We went all around the town handing out invitations to evangelical meetings and sharing the Gospel with the help of four spiritual law tracks.
The first day in the village was great! About 15 teenagers and 5 adults came to the evening service and we sang worship songs, had a skit, Sveta and Andrey gave their testimonies, Yuri preached the Gospel and gave an alter call. All the youth prayed Jesus and we played Frisbee and loved on them afterwards. Nate, my missionary friend from America, did a short martial arts presentation on how we need to stand on the Word and trust in the Lord, and it was powerful! The youth just loved the Gospel presentation! That night a lady, Olga was her name and two grown men, Pasha and Kostya accepted Christ. Praise the Lord! The second day we were doing the same thing when the the Police, FSB, and the Migration Department showed up and started giving us a hard time. Apparently there are three informants in that village that had reported we were handing out tracks and that there was an American preaching. The police were saying they hadn’t given us permission to do this and that we had to stop, because we were on public property. This was bad for Nate because he is on a tourist visa for now and technically shouldn’t be involved in evangelism so we had to take him to Kirilov in secret to avoid the police.
We shared the gospel and prayed for healing for this man
Preach the Gospel to every creature... we tried to tell this cow about the Creator ;0) she just loved it and said a loud good bye in the Cow language as we were leaving. We asked her to chew the message over till we come back later... hahaha
Boldly knocking on doors till people came and listened to the Good News
Our sisters helped an elderly gentleman weed his garden
and he taught Nate how to use a scythe...
Both ladies accepted Christ during the service
Sveta gave her testimony
So did Andrey
These kids gave their lives to Jesus... hallelujah!!!
Nate's little martial arts evangelism, I loved it!!!
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