Privolzhsk is a city of about 30,000 located 30 miles north of Ivanovo with only two known Baptist believers. Evangelistic outreach has started. Please pray for seekers to be found and congregated for Bible study. Pray for many people to hear, believe, and become the church that would allow God to do His work through them.
Kostroma was first mentioned in 1152. As one of the northernmost cities it served as a place of retreat for grand dukes when enemies besieged Moscow. In 1612 the future tsar was living in Kostroma. When a Polish detatchment found out that he was there they went to find
and kill him. Legend has it that a peasant named Ivan Susanin promised to take them via a "shortcut" through a forest directly to where the young tsar was hiding. The enemies followed him and were never heard from again. It is presumed that Susanin led them so deep into the forest that they could not find a way out, and they perished in the bitter cold. (I wonder if Susanin's plan was intentional, or did he simply fail to ask directions?) Pray that people would experience an awareness of their lostness, a desire for forgiveness, and a knowledge of the truth.
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