RUSSIA

Below are excerpts of an article from Gregory Greve who is on a short term mission trip to Russia for the Foreign Mission.

Last time I wrote was in Yoshkar Ola. Since then we've been to Cheboksary, Ekaterinburg, Saint Petersburg, Kingisepp and now this morning we have arrived in Rzhev. In each place we have been meeting personally and in groups with many Christians, preaching the gospel in church and home services, and continually looking for opportunity to share the gospel with people we meet. On the train from Saint Petersburg to Rezhv last evening, for instance, the Lord again gave opportunity for me to share the gospel and to give out bibles to a mother, Irina, and son, Gresha, and grandmother Zhenya, and then later in Leona and Amanda's compartment, to a university student, Natasha, whom Leona and Amanda had befriended, and who was coming home to Rzhev for a vacation. I actually sat up with Natasha until 1 in the morning in the morning quietly sharing God's word, as the light of the "White Nights" as they call them here, slowly faded outside our train compartment window, then I got up at 5am, a couple hours before our stop, to mark out places in the bible I promised to give her, and that would correspond with our conversation and the word the Lord gave me to share with her the evening before. All of the persons we spoke with last night affirmed, and with much conviction, the importance of faith for their lives. Please pray with us for each of these very precious souls.

Now that we are in Rezhv I will begin to contact many of the people that don’t go to church, or that don’t or can’t go to church so often, which is something I do in every city I visit, to encourage them and to share the word with them and to pray with them.

We will be here in Rzhev until Monday or Tuesday morning before heading back to Moscow to meet our flights home. Please do continue to keep us in prayer, asking our Lord’s love, wisdom, and guidance in all.

May His love touch your hears also, with so much joy and peace,

Gregory