We visited this little village outside of Murom with the team from CC Murom. They had rented a bus, and that morning most of their church plus our team of 6 piled into it and headed to Papolina (note: I have no idea if the village name would be spelled like that, but it is a guess. The pronunciation is more like: pahp-OO-lee-na. Anyway, that's it's name).
Pasha came also with a trunk full of literature: small new testaments for younger people, larger print new testaments for the babooshkas (grandmas), tracts, and a book called The Foundation of Christianity by John Stott. We loaded up with armfulls and bagfulls, split into groups of three or so, and headed out. It was raining and muddy, but we were excited. We knocked on the door of each house that we came to, and, if they were home, we gave them a Bible. Then we began to share the gospel with them. Many people were overjoyed to recieve a Bible and wanted immediately to start reading. We would tell them about Jesus and how he is the way to Eternal Life and the only way begin to understand the Bible. They were so happy.
This woman was had never seen a Bible in her life. She loves to read. She said, "All my life I have been told there is no God. But I believe there is Something there. I just don't know."Isn't it amazing that people naturally think there is a God? For truly even creation testifies of Him. But they have not heard, or perhaps have been told, as she was, that God does not exist. Now she knows of Jesus her Savior and she holds His precious word. God is so good!
Here is some of the group with the bus.
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