Dear Friends,
Dear Friends,
Greetings in the name of Jesus!
In order to help you to pray more specifically for the Revival in Russia I want to share some materials from the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (see link #1 below) released on May 1. Oppression in China, Sudan, and Russia top the list of concerns in a new report.
«Sudan and China are practicing flagrant and widespread religious-liberty abuses, while Russia "is at a crossroads," and whatever route it takes will have an enormous impact on surrounding nations, the commission's Lawrence Goodrich told.
...The situation in Russia is not as dire as in Sudan and China, but the decline of religious freedom may have regional ramifications, the commission said. A 1997 religion law restricts minority religious groups by requiring them to undergo an "onerous and intrusive registration process," the report says. Tens of thousands of groups missed a December 1999 registration deadline, which has been extended to December 2000. A presidential decree states that groups not registered by then will be liquidated.»
Our church has been registered under the new law although many thousand others haven't.
Our missionary Igor in Uzbekistan has sent a short letter telling that he is ministering in the new city in a little underground church preparing labors for the work. He expressed his deep appreciation for all brothers and sisters in Christ pray for him and support his mission.
One of the most urgent need in Russia is drugs. Thousands of young people are daily degrading and dying in this nightmare. In communist times this problem almost non-existed, but since the country was opened not only good things came in...
Christian Churches are in the very beginning of the serious work against drugs. In Moscow with 12 million population I know of only 2 small Christian drug-rehabilitation centers. We have a young man in our church with strong drug addiction and after many prayers we managed to put him in one of them. The Holy Spirit is doing great things there and many former drug-addicts are free now and some even want to be full-time in the rehabilitation ministry.
Please, keep our ministry in prayer. Thank you!
«Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost» (Romans 15:13).
May the Lord keep you in His presence,
Andrew Blinkov
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