On September 15, 2017, in the capital city of the Muslim nation of Azerbaijan, the church in Baku celebrated the very first wedding between two members in its twenty-year history! For the past seven years, Kyamal Ibragimov has been the only single brother in this small church of fourteen disciples. About a year ago, Kyamal invited a former work colleague to church: a young lady named Zara. She became a Christian, and over the course of the last year, they developed a relationship and were married. The newlyweds have a dream to serve God, to reach out to young people, and have been a tremendous encouragement to Alek and Seville Musayev, who currently volunteer their time to lead the church. T
Are we missing opportunities to learn from churches on the mission field as we are supporting them? As an evangelist, I have been involved with Eurasian Missions for a couple of decades. I became a Christian in Moscow, Russia in 1995 and have led churches in Russia and Ukraine before moving to the United States in 2004 and leading stateside. Because I have been involved with missions on “both sides of the pond” I had a chance to experience first hand the amazing impact of the spiritual and financial support of North American churches in a place where Christianity has been brutally persecuted and banned for 75 years before 1991. Most people don’t realize that every single leader in dozens of
