News from One Year for Jesus teams: «Bring the light of the Gospel to people who live in darkness…» 
After Easter Celebration‘One Year for Jesus’ team from Omsk Nehemiah Church came to Leninsk, a small village of about 50 houses (20 of them didn’t have habitants). Here is a story told by one of the team members, Ivan Pavlov.
«It was one of my first distributions. Frankly speaking, I was nervous. But I clearly understood one thing: if I am ashamed of Christ or His Word, then I wouldn’t be able to justify myself when I am in Heaven. I prayed with my brothers and the Lord gave me peace.
When we came to this village I was not sure what to say to people. But I know that I believe in great God, and I remember how I got saved: somebody told me that there was God who loved me.
In Leninsk we went to every home and it was quite simple, we greeted people wished them Happy Easter and began to tell them the story of Jesus, who rose from the dead on Easter Day. On one hand, I was happy to talk about Jesus and the reason for the big celebration. But on the other hand, looking into the eyes of people who were still drunk from celebrating Easter the day before, I felt sad. Unfortunately, this is the way many people in Russia celebrate Christian holidays. They just want a reason to get drunk… I realized as never before that these people need Jesus desperately…
As we went from door to door we shared the Good News with everybody, gave them Christian newspapers, we gave Books of Hope to children. But people in this village didn’t want to reconcile with God… I started to think to myself: “Will there be anybody who realizes the great need in Savior, who will accept Him?”
Our God is an awesome God. In one of the last houses we met an old lady, in Russian we call them ‘babushka’, which means ‘grandmother’. She was very hospitable and kind. She was the first one who prayed the sinner’s prayer and accepted Jesus as her Lord and Savior. We were so blessed. Then we were told that there was one babushka in Leninsk who believed in God. Local teenagers showed us her house. We were very happy to meet her. This other old lady told us that somebody shared the Good News with her when she went to the closest big town to visit her children.
She brought her neighbor who she had witnessed about Jesus. We found out that the two of them were praying for Christians to come to their village and bring them Christian literature. And God answered their prayers. They also told us that their dream was to have a Bible, at least one copy for the two of them.
We brought the other two old ladies who we had just met and who had just gotten saved. So now there were four Christian babushkas in Leninsk.
And we all rejoiced when our team leader Sergey Durasov told us that our church had just received the shipment of Bibles. We could tell the four babushkas that we would come back and bring them Bibles. It’s hard to express in words how grateful we all were to our Lord. We prayed together, sang songs. The babushkas told us that they would be waiting for us to come back with Bibles and they would be praising God every day.
I know that the four of them are in good hands of our Lord. They will be spending time together. I firmly believe that their village will be transformed as they pray, read and study God’s Word together.
If you are dreaming of some great ministry that you can be a part of, I can tell you to get up and go and bring the light of the Gospel of Jesus Christ to people who live in darkness.»
Leninsk village, Omsk region, Siberia
