Praise God for sending more missionaries for the summer. God brought another missionary family to help us as we begin, Steven and Teresa Yeats, who were on our missionary team in Ukraine a few years ago. Now Steve is a pastor in Moldova but they had to be out of that country for 3 months because of Visa problems. So we are blessed to have their fellowship and help in the ministry from May through July.
Praise God for our Christian Latvian language teacher. We have started taking lessons 3 times a week for an hour and a half each. We hope to eventually become fluent because Latvian is the language that the majority of people speak because it is the national language. Learning it gives us credibility and a wider audience in this country. Our teacher is also a worship leader too, so she is teaching me some cool Latvian songs as well as Bible vocabulary.
Praise God for leading us in effective street witnessing. We started sharing the gospel on the streets every Friday night. We started preaching n Russian but one night God led us to use English and we found more Latvians were interested in speaking with us. Perhaps this is because it is the required second language in school, for a third language they can choose German or Russian. This is a great opportunity for the gospel and blessing for us especially since most young Latvians can speak well and they like to practice speaking English. We also hope to start an English speaking club at the library soon as another way of building relationships.
Praise God for the fellowship that is starting in our home. Our vision is to start a Calvary fellowship by inviting people to our home Bible study. The last 3 Sunday nights God has brought people to minister to. The first week 7 young men who we met when street witnessing. They were unbelievers but asked great questions were interested in hearing our testimonies. The second week 2 young women from the Russian Baptist church came to fellowship with us. And last week the Lord added a believer who can translate from English into Latvian so we can now invite more Latvians.
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