A team from the New
Life Church of Barnaul spread the gospel in the town of Kosikha in Altai region
in Russia which was heard by all 6,000 residents. As many as 276 of them reconciled with God and a home church started to meet. The team
helped the people of the town in different ways by providing them food
products, clothes and helped people to landscape their yards. This was showing
God’s love to them. A programme was also organized for children earlier,
according to russianpentecostal.org. As a result, there was a great change in
the behavior of two kids from Kosikha –
Igor (14 years old) and Yuri (8 years old). Amy, project coordinator in
Barnaul, had met the boys’ mother, Tatyana. Amy prayed for the brothers. The
older boy was a troubled teenager who started to smoke, and used to run away from
home. He used to disobey his parents. The younger one was easier to deal with,
but Amy believed that God was able to change them and decided to help them get
to a Christian camp in Elekmonar town. According to camp leaders, at first the
brothers were tense, especially Igor. But gradually they started to change.
They made friends with peers, got used to morning and evening prayers and
happily participated in evening worship services. While at the camp, Igor and
Yuri together with others and visited
Chemal Hydroelectric Power Station, indoor waterpark and paleopark, several
times went to hiking trips and climbed a mountain. Igor and Yuri accepted Jesus
on the first day of camp and the Holy Spirit began His work. The only problem
was that the boys couldn’t read. But very quickly they acquired new spiritual
habits, received lots of positive experiences and became physically stronger.
They both received Bibles as a gift. Amy told us, “I called their mother
Tatyana and asked how the boys were. Her happy response was that they were
excited and changed a lot. Every morning and every evening they prayed together
and their attitude to her changed. They became softer and more caring, kept
asking, “How can we help?” And that’s a teenager who never helped before, kept escaping
from home and never obeyed his mother.”