Why go on a short-term mission, or on a mission team? What purpose can two weeks in another country serve? How can we give enough to make it worthwhile with no language skills and limited cross-cultural experience? Is it just a glorified holiday? Or can God work through these short experien...
Extreme Walk is a formative 10 month cross-cultural church multiplication and discipleship experience. 10 months of stretching spiritually and emotionally as a person is taken out of their natural environment and placed in a world with different values, customs, and worldviews - not to mention d...
The last two months have seen a couple of things happen. Back in June, the eXtreme Walk team joined with Y.W.A.M (Youth With A Mission) and people from the Seminary. Together we went to Montelibano to work with and along side people helping the displaced people out there. Colombia has the ...
As a family we are doing well, although life here is challenging. We know there is a real need for us here, and the needs to be filled are endless. The girls have really settled into the Ecuadorian swing of life, Anika (1yr) now speaks as much Spanish as English. While Maia (2 ½) is struggl...
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The Future Hope for Russia!
I thank the Lord for His love toward me, for caring for me and my family, for filling my life with meaning and joy and for performing miracles in my life. When we trust Him, He gives so much more than we would ever dream of. A good example to this graciousness of God the miracle maker is my enrollment to the Seminary. I could not have even thought or dreamed that the Lord would have blessed me so abundantly. I thank the Lord for every brother and sister with whom I got acquainted here, for the unity and joy of fellowship which we have in Him. Please, pray so that every one of us fulfill the call the Lord gives us, so that we would fulfill His will for us. I thank God for each and every faculty member of the Seminary, for the love, care, and attention we receive. I very much like all of the classes and courses we are being offered here. These courses teach us to treat the Word of God with respect, and to pay attention to people. They help us to pray for and serve one other and to also minister to other people. They broaden our horizons with regard to the knowledge of God and His character. They help us to be rooted more and more firmly in Him. I believe that the Lord cares for us and our relatives. It happened that my Mom had been deprived from having fellowship with me for a long time. But the Lord took care of it and a phone line was brought to her house, in a miraculous way which only the Lord could achieve. So nowadays we have this fellowship, for my Mom can pick up the phone and give me a call any time. My sister was baptized last month. So, I pray for the Lord to keep her safe and help her to get rooted in Him. I thank the Lord for the family which I gained in Him, and, particularly, for His Church in the village I used to live in. But here I learned that His Family was much wider than I used to think, that His family is present in Moscow, America, Australia, and everywhere in the world. We sing the same praises, appeal to the same Father, and worship the same God. Here, in Moscow, I attend a church where people are open to seeking the Lord’s will and to fulfill it once found. I would love to be obedient to God and to serve Him where necessary, where I can be of any help. I would love to discover gifts and talents which the Lord blessed me with. And I ask the Lord to use me where He wants and give me humbleness before Him and obedience to His will. Please, pray so that the call of the Lord would be fulfilled in my life. I praise the Lord for you, for your open hearts. May the Lord bless you with every blessing, and give you the joy in whatever you do to serve Him. May the Lord keep you from evil and abide with you all of the days of your life. Yuliya Serikova - Moscow Evangelical Christian Seminary
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Dear brothers and sisters in Jesus Christ, Peace to you!
Most of all, I would like to share with you what I learn about those who have not come to the saving knowledge of the Lord. They keep on looking for some meaning in their life; they seek joy which only the Lord can give. And I pray for the Lord to give me obedience to Him, and wisdom in dealing with people, and a desire to share my joy, which comes from the Lord, with them any time and any place.