Kazakhstan Update • Arman
Dear friends, greetings from Florida, the sunshine state. It was a good 4 months in the USA, but we still have 2 months ahead of us. The Lord continues to amaze us through new and old friends, wonderful nature, delicious food, and even through alligators who live in the lake a quarter of a mile away.
We are now in Orlando, but a couple of weeks ago we had an amazing opportunity to spend five days with the whole family in St. Augustine. The church from this city is partnering with our presbytery in planting a new church in Astana and they invited us to visit the church and the ministry and by providing us with a condo on the ocean beach they blessed us with a wonderful time and a "sea" of new experiences. Literally, an "ocean" of the new emotions and impressions. While we were in St. Augustine we had the opportunity to meet with a youth church group, an international outreach church group, and other church groups of people. Arman had the opportunity to share about the church in Kazakhstan and open the Word of God together with the Church on Sunday service.
We also had the opportunity to visit a Russian speaking church in North Port on the Gulf Coast of Florida. We got to know this church two years ago, but we have a feeling that we have known these people all our lives. We had wonderful fellowship with the family of the pastor of this church and an unforgettable time on the beach in Boca Grande.
In Florida, God is giving us the opportunity to see some of our good friends. As we wrote earlier, we see how God takes care of us through friends and we see that friends are a special blessing from Him during the period of our sabbatical.
Back in Kazakhstan in our Church we use materials of the Third Millenium Ministries at the Sunday school for adults. Here in Orlando we had opportunity to visit their headquarter and meet some of our new partners. We also had the opportunity in Orlando to meet with the new leaders of the mission, which sent the founders of our Churches to Kazakhstan back in the 90s.
PRAYER REQUESTS
For the remaining 2 months in America (we plan to be here in Florida for another month, and we will write about our plans for December in the next letter )
For the church in Astana. There is a group of believers in Astana, started from our presbytery, but the leaders of this group made a decision to move to another city, pray for new leaders in Astana fellowship
For the church plant initiative in the village of Malinovka (Russia) and for the preparation for an outreach project in the city of Prizran (Kosovo)
For the Almagul church in Almaty and our return to the ministry
For the churches of our presbytery and overall the Church in our region - Kazakhstan, Central Asia and Siberian part of Russia
