Dear Brothers and Sisters,

We had a wonderful Christmas celebration and hope you had even better.

Just recently the Lord started to answer on our fervent prayers for our city Khimky. One Christian mission unexpectedly decided to help us to rent all available cinemas and cultural places to show Jesus film and evangelize Khimky. We hope to reach many people to Christ. This large evangelization together with the ministry to the drug-addicts are our most challenging projects today.

Our missionary in Uzbekistan, brother Igor, came back to Moscow.

Below is one of brother Igor's testimonies:

"While on mission in Uzbekistan I've seen many manifestations of God's power. God wants to work through those who trust Him and put all their faith in Him.

Zhanna is a new convert. She came to the Lord only a few months ago. She is very young and unattractive Uzbek girl. In addition she has cerebral palsy.

My group in Djizak city was preparing to visit a distant Uzbek village allocated in the mountains. While praying for it God told me to take with me only those who would want to go. To my surprise there was no volunteers except for Zhanna. I could not imagine that this invalid girl would make such a hard way to the point of our destination without a single complain.

The village we arrived had a square that was surrounded by several homes. In this village such place plays a role of market area, entertainment for people and it has the honorable spot for the eldest and most respected people of the village. As we found out most population of the village were Uzbek but there were "second class" nations - Khazaks as well as "not people at all" - Gypsies.

We came to that square and immediately realized that we were outsiders and were not welcomed here. As new comers we got surrounded by Gypsies children who started begging for bread that we had with us. The elders disliked this and yelled and demonstrated by all means that we should leave. I was afraid. I was afraid while going to the place, I was afraid when we arrived, I was afraid when we came and started to give bread. So, I told Zhanna that it would be better for us to stop giving bread if it is not welcomed by elders. You know what she said to me? She said that we are the representatives of the King of kings and we will not go and she continued to give bread. I was embarrassed. Me, an old guy, a graduate from the Bible college was scared and ready to leave any moment and here was a brave invalid girl who came to the Lord just a few months ago. We were almost out of bread as a local woman came and gave Zhanna some more food. It was a real miracle. Then another woman brought some more food and soon the square became full of people. Somebody brought a rug and all people from the village sited to share food. There were Uzbeks, Khazaks and us. It was the second miracle that the Lord revealed to us. At that moment there was no any difference between nations, sex and age and all were equal at that feast.

I was now a special guest and was invited to sit but nobody invited Zhanna to sit and she was the only one who remained standing. Suddenly she started to speak and all became silent and turned to Zhanna. This little girl was sharing the Gospel with them. She said that Jesus came to this world to save us and came to save them. She said that we are children of the great God who created the Heaven and the earth and they are His children too. He loves us and He loves them: Uzbeks, Russians, Khazarks and Gypsies. There were not just words: everyone felt some sort of unusual power. The elders were listening her, a little girl, a crippled girl with attention. God was moving�

God bless you!

With love in Christ,
Andrew Blinkov

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