Bibles For Russia

One of  the Perspectives speakers from this past spring, Alfred McCroskey, helps to lead an organization entitled “Bibles for Russia.” He has a son, Mark, with a ministry to orphans and street children in Russia.  He just left for 2 months to help the local workers with summer camps.  A child can go to camp for just $10.

There is a website, www.biblesforrussia.org, that tells more about the various aspects of their ministries.  They take about 3 teams a year to different places in the former Soviet Union.  

The address for any contributions is:  Bibles for Russia, P.O. Box 69, Florence, AL 35631-9969.  Be sure to indicate it's for the orphan/children's ministry.

Project 61 Prayer Requests

By Alicia Jordan 

1.  The kids return from school at the end of the month.  Please pray for all of the kids as these next few months are going to be an adjustment for them and their families.  Please pray for the teams that will be coming to spend time with them this summer, that it is a time of growth in their relationship with Christ above all else.  If you sponsor a child, please pray for them as often as you can during these next few months.

2.  Corey and Sumer are moving to a new house soon; please pray for this transition as it comes during a busy season for them.  They are supposed to sign a contract this week!

3.  Corey and Sumer are applying for work permits at the end of the month, pray that we find favor and that the process is quick and easy.

4.  Pray for a girl named Heaven who recently came to America.  Pray for the doctors and that she will get the treatment that she needs.

5.  Wendemneh, one of the sponsored children, has been having a rough time. I know this sounds crazy but we are convinced that he probably has a demon and is dealing with some serious spiritual warfare. His behavior is significantly worse when he drinks. The last episode he was laying on the ground turning in circles and making crazy noises and his eyes were rolled back. His mother has possibly been involved in some serious spiritual stuff and worshiping of trees etc. PLEASE pray for him. Wendemneh has said "something bad is inside of me, like Satan." I said "what do you want to do about that Wendemneh," and he said go to church and change his life. I got Pastor Antenah to talk to him and they are going to meet every day so Pastor Antenah can begin sharing the gospel with him. Please believe with us that this young man will hear and receive!! 

New Facilities

by Joe Pacheco

We are now having services in our new facility. You will see that it is not all complete but we are happy to be there. We finished our last march around the property divided in generations from young children first, the youth second, and the adults last. At the finish I climbed up the prayer tower and blew the shofar and everyone shouted. It was an awesome moment of joy and dancing. We are already receiving new people from the neighborhood. This last Sunday I was able to dedicate my granddaughter to the Lord.  Athena is the first child of my generations to be dedicated in the new church.  It is exciting to see my son being raised up in the church and now my grandchild. We greatly appreciate your prayers and support.

(Joe Pacheco is one of our TSC-sponsored missionaries through the GOCTW Offering. TSC teams have also participated in part of the building of the church you see in the pictures above in the Mazatlan area.)

Easter Update

By Steve and Shari - Tucson, AZ 

Wow!  Praise the Lord!  What a great Resurrection Sunday the Lord gave us at Grace Fellowship as we gathered, as you did, to celebrate a living hope in our risen Savior!  The last count that I heard for our attendance was 223. It was a beautiful resurrection Sunday and we saw several people respond to the Gospel.  One of those who prayed to receive Christ was a friend of mine and fellow football coach. Please pray for us as we will be following up with these new believers over the next few weeks.  We also celebrated the ordinance of believer's baptism, which always has special significance on Resurrection Sunday!

Narrow Is The Gate

Branden and Annie - Central Asia May Update

(TSC supports the work of Branden and Annie through GOCTW offerings and will be sending its first team in 2011! For more info on how to join this team, go to http://www.goctw.org/.

Real Expectations

“For the gate is small and the way is narrow that leads to life, there are few who find it.” (Matthew 7:14)

Wow, this verse has carried us many days since we last wrote. Our goal as we said in our last letter was that our team would give five hundred students an opportunity to hear the gospel before the end of the semester. Annie and I personally had several opportunities this semester to share. Annie shared with thirty eight students and I shared with thirty four.

We are very thankful that twenty nine came to faith, but it showed us the reality of this verse that the gate is small and the way is narrow and real expectations are that few will find it. Even though it is so hard to see students reject this, we continue to spend time with them if they want to be with us and come to our classes and student meetings.

Another time Annie and the girls were planning a time to bring in a local cosmetologist to share about make-up. Afterwards they would share about the more important topic: inner beauty. Annie took the stage and shared about how important inner beauty is and Father’s love. Two girls kept interrupting.   One kept talking about her viewpoint of the topic and was not giving Annie an opportunity to share what was fully on her heart so girls could hear this important message. Annie came home and said how hard it was because of these two girls. You just never know how God is moving; the very next day some of the staff girls followed up with these two girls and both of them came to faith and are really walking in a relationship with our Father.

Our plans for the summer

Next week we leave for a southern city of our country. There we will have a week of seminary classes. We are required to continue our education and have requirements to fulfill in order to stay on staff. Our organization brings in a teacher for that time and we have exams at the end of the classes.

Our student center is finally finished and we will be preparing to open it in July! Right now we are meeting and discussing how to use this new tool to gather students for the fall semester. We will also be giving aid to the families left without homes from the war last June.

We want to end by saying thank you for your continued support as we work together and these stories couldn’t happen without your support