Greetings to all our friends around the world,
Most of you might remember our friends and co-labourers – Pastor Anatoly and Pastor Nikolai in Kamchatka, Russia and how they are building a wonderful large facility for their growing church in Petropovlovsk. We have ministered there 3 times and see great fruit every time we go there. Many of you might remember my story of the older lady dancing and worshiping ‘Eesus’ at this church. We believe this to be a vital church in Russia with a great vision for church planting, evangelism and discipleship. But the government and the orthodox church is very adversarial against them and uses everything at their disposal to thwart the building of this facility or the meeting of these saints. Please read this report from Pastor Nikolai and go to prayer for these dear faithful servants.
Thank you,
in Him,
Tim and Maryl Smith
From: Nikolai Poliakov [mailto:uonkamchatka@hotmail.com]
Sent: Monday, June 29, 2009 11:49 AM
We have a prayer request. Please, pray with us and let other people know.
Last week we had an inspector came and told us that somebody wrote a letter to administration of the Kamchatka region about our church, that we have services at the unfinished building. They are “very concern” for people’s safety. The Governor’s office send an inspector. He told us if we have services in unfinished building they are going to fine us $20,000 to $30,000 US dollars. In april we already paid fine for breaking the law(services in unfinished building). It was small amount. He said: if you will continue to do service - next step – Anatoly will loose his right to be in leadership position for 5 years and church will lose registration. Therefore, last Sunday we did not have our services in our building, we rented buses and brought people to the mission base and had a service outside. Now we can not have services in our building until it is finished.We have one or two buildings in the city that can sit all our people. Another problem is the orthodox church with the goverment does not allow anybody to rent places for us. If somebody will try to rent out they will be in trouble.
Please, pray that God will help us to finish our building ASAP and meanwhile that He gives us wisdom what to do now concerning the services.Blessings,
Pastor Nikolai Poliakov
Your worship missionaries,
Dr. Tim and Maryl Smith
Worship Without Borders
www.wwob.org