Central Asia Outreach, Evangelism and Training

Faruq* visited our training center while on leave from the military and accepted Jesus as Savior on the spot! He was invited by his older sibling, who had become a believer earlier. After his discharge from the military, Faruq jumped into the church with both feet. He participated in weekly Bible study and evangelism training, began growing as a disciple, and became a passionate evangelist. His job in business provided opportunities to share boldly, but he was frequently persecuted and threatened for speaking about Jesus. His coworker, Mehmet*, noticed Faruq’s courage in sharing the gospel. He, too, came to the training to learn more and left as a believer. Thank you for being integral to Faruq’s and Mehmet’s journeys to faith through your generosity to our team.

Our team currently uses the training center for discipleship and evangelism training during the week, and on Sundays, it serves as a meeting place for national Christians. Our primary goal is to help local believers live out their faith as disciples and evangelists in Central Asia.

God has blessed your gifts to the training center, and we see the number involved in weekly events growing, with 20 to 25 attending Sunday services and groups meeting weekly for Bible study and training. We appreciate your commitment to engaging the lost of Central Asia with us.

Please continue partnering with us in prayer:

• Pray for Faruq and Mehmet as they grow in Christ and share Jesus with others.
• Ask God for wisdom as we plan events for the center; pray all we do glorifies God.
• Pray that local believers this ministry has trained will overcome difficulties and boldly share the gospel with friends, family, and neighbors.

We are grateful that God is using this training center to scatter, plant, and water the seeds of the gospel. We sincerely thank you for the encouragement, prayers, and giving that make this ministry possible.

*Names changed

Thank you so much for your generous support of our team and those that live in our region. Because of your gifts, we are able to provide theological, evangelism, and outreach training for local pastors and church leaders across Central Asia. Your prayers and sacrificial giving are truly making a difference through this project!

Recently, our personnel have been able to bring out believers from areas Christian workers cannot access and train them to become more effective in sharing their faith and leading their churches. Your partnership is integral to our work, especially in these less accessible parts of Central Asia.

Your gifts will continue to help provide much-needed training for our local brothers and sisters as they are discipled into healthy churches.

Thanks to the generosity of supporters like you, we have been able to launch and further support several ministry efforts across Central Asia. Here are a few examples of how God is at work, even during a global pandemic!

Personnel are working alongside national pastors to reach out to some of the poorest people in their city with humanitarian aid. As they help to meet the most urgent physical needs, national believers will be able to share the gospel in order to meet their most critical need, the need for a Savior. Please pray for wisdom for national believers as they lead out in this project and that people’s lives will be changed as they hear the gospel.

This coming summer there will be a camp for adults and youth with special needs. Our personnel working on this project said that these camps will bring “tremendous joy to our special guests and give us the opportunity to share the love of Christ and His truth to many local families.”

Please pray that the camps will be able to proceed as planned and that the gospel will be heard and understood by all who attend.

One of our workers is part of a new church plant in a Central Asia mega-city. As he works alongside a national pastor in this difficult place they are rejoicing in God’s provision of your gifts so that they can “continue to spread the gospel and make disciples in such a way that a mature church is established, healthy in doctrine and able to stand firm in the midst of the many persecutions, eventually sending out laborers of its own.” While the church can’t meet in person right now due to COVID restrictions, they are continuing to meet online, and several have come to faith. Please pray that the Lord will give us the faith, wisdom, humility and perseverance to lead well in this.

Thank you for giving to the Central Asia Outreach & Evangelism project! We were overjoyed by your generosity and appreciate your partnership in sharing the gospel in Central Asia.