Russian Ministries continues to call on Christians worldwide to pray for peace in Russia, especially this Easter Week as Christ’s death and resurrection are celebrated.

Just two days after the rush-hour bomb blasts in Moscow on Monday that killed 39 people at two subway stations, a car bomb exploded in Dagestan in the Northern Caucasus. This blast killed at least 12 people, including a top local police official.

Read more about this bombing here.

Russian Ministries has a strong presence in the Northern Caucasus region through its School Without Walls program, special evangelistic outreaches at Christmas and Easter and evangelistic summer camps. Many of these ministries focus in areas where some say suicide bombers are trained and where extremists have established terrorist training camps.

Under the national leadership of Russian Ministries’ Northern Caucasus ministry coordinator, School Without Walls students and their churches are planning for summer camps for children and youth to help raise up a new generation of Christian leaders, whose feet will be shod with the gospel of peace.

PRAYER POINTS:

• Pray that Christians would effectively point others to Christ, the Prince of Peace.
• Pray for Next Generation Christians and their ministries, especially in the tense Caucasus regions, where the ethnic, political and religious hatred reportedly inspired the terrorists.
• Pray for the Easter evangelistic outreaches that take place this Easter weekend in the Northern Caucasus and other regions in Russia and Ukraine.
• Pray for young Next Generation Christian leaders as they prepare for the evangelistic summer camp ministry.

Northern Caucasus summer camp on YouTube

In late February, over 800 young national Christians gathered for an annual youth conference in Odessa, Ukraine. Representing dozens of churches across Ukraine, these young people also represent a new generation of young Christian leaders who want engage culture with the gospel of Christ.

The conference theme, translated as “Gravity,” focused on resisting the pull of evil and secularism and remaining faithful to God’s call on these young lives.

Paul Tokarchuk, executive director of Russian Ministries’ in-country affiliate, the Association for Spiritual Renewal (ASR), was the featured speaker at the two-day conference, which was done in partnership with Connect International and the Brotherhood of Independent Baptist Churches of Ukraine.

A young Next Generation Christian leader, Tokarchuk also shared the training opportunities Russian Ministries and ASR offer through School Without Walls and the ministry opportunities these students and other young Christian leaders have for outreach such as Project Hope during Christmas, and the upcoming Easter evangelistic outreach and gift distribution, the Gift of Life.  Other ministry opportunities were also presented at the two-day conference.

“Our lives are ministry. The more we give, the more we will receive,” declared Mikhail Fadin, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Moscow, motivating young people to become more actively involved in ministry. Pastor Fadin spoke at the conference along with Paul Tokarchuk.

Together, Russian Ministries and ASR are committed to mobilizing, motivating, training and equipping the Next Generation for leadership and ministry.

Find out more about the Gift of Life project here.