news from Turkmenistan

Hello dear brothers and sisters!
Greetings from already summery, hot Turkmenistan.
Mercury column of thermometer is inexorably climbing up.
Today it made a respite on +45°С, but it’s not a limit!
We have a hot time not only outside, but in the church too: Bible
College exams are coming to an end, there will be Students’
Banquet ahead, church picnic, baptism in Ashgabat & Mary,
Women’s Seminar in Mary in the beginning of June.
Today the group of people from our church and Pentecost church
came back from Baku, they were studying at the Christian Youth
Camp Training Seminar in order to be the instructors.
We prepare the people for the first Interchurch Christian
Youth Camp which we plan to have in the second part of July
(we ask you to pray for this).
Praise God for the new people on the services in Ashgabat & Mary.
God’s faithful and His hand yet hasn’t tired to save!
During the past few weeks God’s really trying to do something in
our life and in the lives of many people through us.
Lately I had conversations with responsible persons from KGB in
Ashgabat and in Mary, and in both cases there was the same request
or question, “What could we do with Jehovah Witnesses?
Could you help us somehow in this question?”
Of course, the question is interesting…
Actually many interesting things are taking place here.
For example, on our last service in Mary there were 4 mullahs,
three of them already made hajj, and therefore they have
an attachment to their names – “khodja”. And well, all these 4 persons
were sitting and hearing the message about Christ, because their
government asked them to. After the sermon one of them decided
to invite me to his house – to talk about this in his family in my next
visit of Mary. The ways of the Lord are inscrutable.
Please pray for us, we need your prayers a lot.

P. Vladimir Tolmachev
Greater Grace
Ashgabat, Turkmenistan