Летний проект в Москве - Юра участвует, как участник )

The past month was full of events we’d like to tell you about!

1. I took part in the Summer Project organized by New Life in Moscow. It was a new and a very useful experience for me. Over 50 students and volunteers from different cities of Russia together with a group of American students spent almost 2 weeks together, studying the Bible, worshipping the Lord together and meeting students in various universities, parks and malls of Moscow. Our goal was to share the Gospel with the students we meet and to introduce them to the team of staff and volunteers that constantly serve in Moscow, so that they could join the student movement there and get to know the Lord through it. During this time the Summer Project met a few hundred students, over 200 of them heard the Gospel for the first time, and 10 prayed to receive Christ. Please pray that God would keep working in their hearts and would help them get connected with a group of true believers who could help them grow. 

All the participants of the Summer Project were divided into 4 teams, where each member had his or her role. Each team had a leader, a journalist (who informed the other teams about their day), people to be responsible for prayer, for counting the statistics (how many conversations the team had and how people responded), for preparing materials for outreaches and so on. I was asked to be the leader of one of the teams. I learned a lot from this experience and I really hope I will be able to apply the lessons I learned here in Krasnodar.

In the end of the Project I was invited to think about joining the New Life. It was very unexpected for me, but I was blessed and encouraged by this offer. However, it is a very big decision, that we are not ready to make right now. We believe God wants us to keep working here in Krasnodar for now, while joining the New Life would mean moving to another city where they have a team. We trust the Lord would keep leading our family and we are willing to follow Him.

I praise God for the opportunity to participate in the Moscow Summer Project, to meet so many brothers and sisters in Christ, to learn from them and to serve alongside them!

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