Mission of Russian in Nepal

Dear friends, brothers and sisters,

I greet you with the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. We send ardent Christian greetings to you from the mountainous country of Nepal. For decades this country has been an attraction for those who aspire to conquer the highest mountain in the world in The Himalayas – Everest. 25% of this country's population reside in cities and 75% live in highland villages. Young people have to come down from the mountains to finish secondary education because many villages don't have high schools.

Every day brings something new into our lives. Thank you so much for your prayers. It is a special blessing that moves me to tears. I'm very grateful to my family for the love and support, for blessing me to go on this missionary trip.

Today, the 18th of March, began with our breakfast and the time of worshiping the Lord together, sharing testimonies of the previous day, praying and the time in the Word with pastor Urij Nizev, who shared from Ps.23 and meditated on hospitality and and team relationships. In our prayer we asked God for wisdom, guidance and understanding people from another culture.

At 11 am we set out on foot to go to pastor Puran's house where the sisters' seminar was to take place. On the way Alexey and I mused on people blinded by Hinduism or Buddhism and what an advantage we have in Jesus Christ who is the WAY, the TRUTH and the LIFE.

Local brothers and sisters were waiting for us at the pastor's house. We had a time of praise together then the sisters' meeting started. I was asked to spend the time with young brothers. Many of them came there to learn play the guitar to glorify the Lord in other churches and lead worship in their home churches.

I had two hours with them during which I asked them numerous questions about the country, young people, preaching the Gospel, their values, their reading the Scripture, their past, their present and future, their dreams. One young brother lives far away in the mountains, he had to spend two days coming down from the mountains and then two more hours on the bus. The reason he is there is to learn to lead the people in his village church in worship. This time gave me a good glimpse of the country. Pastor Puran interpreted for us to Nepalese and we prayed together in the end.

Before a small group in the evening we went to have dinner to the old part of the town and got into a traffic jam – THAT was a real JAM! – narrow streets, vehicles moving in different directions, thousands of motorbikes, cars and trishaws. Many people wear a bandage over their mouth and nose because there are so much exhaust fumes and dust on the roads.

The small group took place in a house of Nepalese believers. Around 20 people gathered – we sang, did «Hands» mime, Natasha shared about her conversion to the Lord and then we prayed for everyone gathered, for the children and the young people. In the end we presented everyone with a Russian souvenir.

That is how the Lord leads us in His ways. Oh, how we should pray for this nation lost in darkness! Thousands and thousands of people have not heard of Jesus Christ. People need the LORD! Jesus said «You are my witnesses to the ends of the earth».

I'm sincerely grateful to my parents who in my young years showed me the way of Truth and Light, I'm so grateful for having a wife and children who know and love God, for the church where the Gospel is preached, for my country where we have freedom, prosperity and thousands of other privileges that we don't even suspect of.

We have more important events in front of us – a church service on Saturday, I was invited to preach.

Pray for the whole team and also:

· for an efficient ministry to the Christians in this country, spiritual encouragement for them

· for the future of the country – just 10 months ago the country was a monarchy, there is hope that now the atmosphere of dictatorship will give way to democracy

· for the needs of the churches – to have buildings and train hundreds and thousands of ministers

· for the pastors that work among their own people and for the missionaries who spread the Gospel

· for our trip from Nepal to India on Saturday

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May God bless each one of you!

With love, prayers and gratitude,