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Carelinks | Riga
B
rother Maxim continues to run the ecclesia
in Riga and the Winter daily feeding
program and Bible teaching is now in full swing.
We have visitors from the UK and Canada
assisting brother Maxim and our local sister
Anna in feeding and teaching the usual large
group of mainly baptized brethren and sisters.
We’re pleased to tell you of the baptism of
Aleksandr, pictured above - brother Dennis’s
amazing baptismal bath in the Riga hall again
being put to good use by brother Maxim - and
Mikhail, a one eyed homeless man who has
been attending the meetings. We are so
relieved and grateful that the Lord’s great
work in? Riga? is continuing, and have as it were
no greater joy than to know that our children
walk in truth.?
Carelinks | Russia
A
s briefly mentioned in the last issue of
Gospel News, Duncan made a trip with our
new brother Nikolai to visit an isolated couple.
Fortunately they had use of Nikolai’s work
truck, without which it would’ve been impos-
sible to drive many hours each way over
pontoon bridges and tracks, far into the very
heart of rural Russia.
It was an awful trip, rural Russia these days is
proof enough that Putin needs a foreign policy
issue to take the focus off the poverty of the
mass of the population in the rural areas of
this vast country. Corrupt Police near the
towns, no sign posts because they have liter-
ally fallen down, potholes as deep as a man,
seriously broken up asphalt, tracks passable
only by tractors, no public transport... these
are just some of the things we could say. But
it was all worth it. Olga and Anatoly unlike
many younger people these days got properly
married and fulfilled their dream of owning
their own home- after saving from tiny salaries
in the city, they bought a village house for
1000$, 5 km. walk from a main road and a
shop, and virtually inaccessible apart from by
walking and hitch hiking. No jobs there of
course, only subsistence farming. But this
joyful couple have an even more amazing
story than that.
The migrants we chatted with were for the
most part educated, ‘normal’ people; Syria
and Iraq are going to be left without any
credible alternative to extremist govern-
ment, because all the moderates are
flooding into Europe. We believe this is all
part of the last days prophetic scenario
which will lead to Israel’s invasion and the
Lord’s return. This world certainly needs it.
We had little time to take pictures or shoot
video- the surge of 600 hungry people
towards you, having smelt your soup and
bread, is quite something to cope with when
you are just a few people on a railway halt
in the middle of nowhere. So our rather
amateur 30 minute summary of our work is at...
Carelinks | Migrant Crisis Outreach
Our local brother with anti immigration
graffiti in the background