Dear Friends,

Warm greetings from Moscow!
I would like send to you some testimony from our post letters and from our volunteers.

Lubov, retired.

Dear carriers of the Word of God!  I received greetings for Easter and the Bible from you.  Greetings to you also and a profound bow!  I went through the correspondence Bible course and understood that the Bible exposes all the sides of the life for a Christian.  By studying the Bible someone's life changes for better.  By understanding the truth of the Bible we come to the conclusion that we lacked the beautiful perception and we get rid of our naughtiness.  It's difficult for me to advise anything because I have just begun to study page by page this unique book the Bible. I wish you health, love and success in all your deeds.  Best regards, Lubov

V.M. invalid, Engels district:

I am writing to let you know about my joy.  I have repented and turned towards God, I have believed and want to live according to God's plan.  I wanted for a long time to repent before God, I had heaviness on my soul, but I didn't know how to do it.  And now after I had read your precept, I understood and turned to God.  Big changes happen in me with getting in touch with the Word of God.  I want to read about God more and more, to read, learn and delight in Christ.  Conciliation and grace come into my soul and I tell to myself: "This is what my soul needed".  Thank you for pointing me at the true path of knowing God.  Peace be with you.

Galina, 54y.o.Engels district:

(This village we looked on the map and through the fields and when we arrived there we were disappointed because most of the houses were empty, only in 7 houses lived somebody.  This letter is the response to the first brochure.  We had to send lessons through a nearby village where there is a post office and where this person knows somebody):

Dear Christian organization!  I am writing you from a remote place.  In our village there are only 7 families because the farm had fallen apart and we stayed here with no post office, shop, school, hospital and even good road.
But God doesn't leave us and gives us food.  Somehow we received your brochure "Every Home for Christ" where it says that we can study the Bible which we don't have. We also don't have the New Testament but we would like to know more about the Word of God and Almighty God.  I am 54 years old, my husband is 53 years old.  My daughter-in-law lives in the same village, she is 26 years old, her son and my grandson is 5 years old.  I would like him to know about the paradise that he doesn't see here.  We all decided to take your correspondence Bible course.

V.A.
I am very grateful to this course.  For the first time I had an understanding of what it is Christian life, faith, Jesus Christ.  I doubt that without this study I could understand the meaning of the Bible truth.
The first 3 lessons were easier for me, the questions of the 4th lesson were more difficult - I answered many of them wrong.  Therefore I need to read more and pay more attention, meditate on what I read and apply Biblical truths in my life.  Thank you for the teaching and for the Bible.

A.F.
Dear workers of the Mission!  I received yours booklets and the Bible - this gift of God - it is my treasure!  Thank you!  What a joy it is to have this path in my life and it is easy for me to follow it.  And the most important is this: "What
is it that shines? The soul! Who lit it? You".   I am writing you with a
great appreciation, gratitude and love.  I wish for you to abide in true faith in the Lord, true love and light! Thank you that you help to cure our souls, introduce us to the good and to God.  I bow low for all that you do for people, for accuracy, and may the Lord give you health and success.

Dasha, 15y.o., Balashov district:
Greeting dear workers of the Mission!  Thank you for helping to learn about God and God's Word.  I discovered much in the Bible with your help and now it is easier for me to find the main thought in the Bible verses. God helped me to get rid of many bad habits.  I now look differently at the world around me, at all the people and at all that God created.  I would like you to pray for two people who are dear to me - for my brother and my sister.  I would like the Lord to call them on the right path that leads to the eternal love and joy.

Eugenie, 23y.o.
Eugenie - of Buryat nationality, came from Irkutsk region where he was involved in shamanism.  When he came to the adult age, he tried to find the meaning of life like everybody else.  While visiting with his father the main reunions of shamans on the Olkhon island he tried to understand the core of the shamanism and find answers in it.  He didn't find the truth but on the contrary the deeper he went into it, the more dark sides of shamanism he saw.  When he studied at an Institute, he began to study seriously the Buddhism as he believed that the Buddhism was a part of the culture of the Buryat nation.  But he still didn't find the truth and was disappointed, he got lost in all the different ideas of the shamanism and Buddhism which were not giving hope for salvation and the eternal life.  At that same time he heard from his Christian classmate about the Mission "Every Home for Christ".  As soon as he had the opportunity, he made the acquaintance of the missionaries from the Mission and at the first meeting he asked all his questions on which he was trying to find answers.  Of course he received all the answers through the Bible.  At the same day he was given a New Testament.  Eugenie began coming to a Christian church.  At one of the gatherings he was touched by God and opened his heart for Him.
When Eugenie came to his village for the summer break, he witnessed about Christ and distributed the literature from the EHC Mission.  His parents were respected people in the village and for a long time they looked closely at the "new faith" of their son.  But they did not hinder him.  They even defended their son if someone from their relatives spoke against Christ.
Last year his parents repented and began to study the Bible.  This summer Eugenie witnessed to us and shared his great joy: his father and mother made a decision and made the covenant with God by baptism.
Now Eugenie takes a post-graduate course, serves the Lord, he learned to play the guitar and praises the Lord with songs.  He prays for salvation of the family of his older brother and other relatives who are still in the bondage of Atheism and tribal shamanism.

Zinaida, 68y.o.
Zinaida was given the booklet of the Mission with a card and was invited to the Christian service at the House of the Culture.  She was an experienced worker in the aviation field and respected by many in her community for her open heart and wise advices.  Zinaida didn't consider herself a sinful person but she enjoyed coming to the Christian services.  She opened her house for the meetings of a home church and even before repenting and making the commitment to God she began to witness to her households and friends of what she had learned from believers.  Her daughter became a Christian first and then Zinaida followed her as well.  Her granddaughter had fellowship with Christian young people and soon she came to church, repented before God and began to follow Christ.  She changed her life principals and received spiritual healing from many wounds that she had experienced in her young
life full of complications.   This year she married a Christian man.  Their
goal is to build a family based on Christian principals.  It was a joy for both her mother and grandmother who were not very happy in their marriages.
This is a big witness of God's love and strength.  He can forgive, change our destinies and bless.

Elene, 35y.o.
Mission EHC together with the local church conducted the outreach in her town.  Elena heard the Good News in this church but it was difficult to make a decision to follow Christ.  Elena is Buryat by nationality and it was difficult for her to overcome the common view of the people around that "Jesus is God of the Russians".  The pastor had an opportunity to visit a Buryat village where there already was a group of Buryat Christians and he invited Elena to go with him.  She was surprised to see a group of Buryats of different ages, even old people knew God and prayed to Him and worshiped Him!  Elena received Christ in her heart but soon because of the family circumstances she had to move to the village that didn't have a church.  Weak in her faith, Elena went to the old path and her life became worse than before with many bad experiences.  The church her new community has close relations with the Mission EHC, does outreaches and spreads the literature of the Mission.  Elena found again the church where people knew God, came back to Him and now her life is changing.  She has a strong desire to know God more and to serve Him.  She begins to serve in the church by doing her best and she is entering the Bible College to have a bigger knowledge that is necessary in the ministry of outreach.

The Mission EHC and the church EHC have close relations.  The church was started after an outreach of EHC missionaries.  Now there are 40 members of the church and up to 60 comers.  This year they did outreaches at the airport and 5 persons of those who were converted made the convent with God. Now the church builds a building that will seat 150 persons. The "Saint Philippe" College:  last year 22 students finished it.  90% of them are now involved in the ministry.  This year 16 new students began to study from September 16.

Yours in Christ,
EHC Russia