Discipleship
Recently sent by a friend – Our deeply held conviction is that everything in Scripture is for the purpose of bringing us into a deeper and closer relationship with the Lord, so that we may truly know Him and be conformed to His image and that He may truly know us, as He indicates to [...]
Here is another testimony of a young man from our church in St. Petersburg, Street Cry: Roman is 31 and a second year student in our school of ministry. He plays drums on our worship team and participates as a drummer and a passionate evangelist in a couple other Christian bands doing evangelism concerts in [...]
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Olga and I have three young ladies from our church staying with us, Zhenya, Anna and Natasha. I’ll post some pictures of our ‘new family’ soon. Natasha works at Crimson Sails, a Christian children’s shelter. Here’s one story of the way the Lord uses His people to save the lost. This is from Street Cry’s update [...]
More from Liz Hulley Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. James 1:23, 24 (NIV) This verse came to shouted at me one [...]
Here is some news from our church, Street Cry, about one of our members – Arkady Ledkov (photo on left) has been part of our church, ministry and staff for a number of years. Several months ago we sent him out with the laying on of hands to reach the people of his ancestry. Arkady [...]
Olga and I have been considering new opportunities in Estonia, and a friend in the US, who will move to Russia soon with her family, sent the following note. We are blessed to have friends who consider so deeply the things of God and share them so freely to encourage us. I’m not sure these [...]
Our church in St. Petersburg started (and continues) as a ministry to drug addicts and prostitutes. In addition to street evangelism, city-wide worship services and other ministries, StreetCry has a two year School of Ministry. Kostya is 26, currently in the second year of the program and is one of the leading evangelists in our [...]
Here’s a quick recap of what got me started on this path: For several years I was the administrator of South Shore Church (now Red River Church) in Austin, Texas. I loved my job and thought I’d be there for a long time to come. Mark Browne, then executive director of Mission Global Outreach (MGO) [...]
While in America, soon after our marriage in Russia, we wanted to obtain an American marriage certificate in addition to a Russian one. Kent Reynolds, the pastor of St. James UMC in Athens, signed our marriage license. Talking with him and his wife, Sandy, was one the highlights of that trip for me. We talked [...]
The Cost of Being a Disciple
There is so much that can be said (and has been said) about Luke 14:28ff, but there have been new insights for me as I’ve meditated on the text over several days’ time. Jesus is speaking of the cost of discipleship. Here is found the well-known teaching that one must hate his own life and [...]
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