Brev från Anatoly 2013-12-07

Our dear friends!

We greet you in His Holy Name! We are in safety at home. It was wonderful again and again to have this relationship with our Swedish friends thank to our Heaven Father being His kids. Really we had a very blessed time being with our native brothers and sisters in Christ. The Lord gave us this opportunity to share our common belief, our hope Him. It was very joyful for us to be in the atmosphere of friendly attention and respect. It was joyful to worship together and to have our joint prayer.

We are grateful to the Lord for your hospitality, warmness and generosity.  May the Lord give you in 100 times more for your serving the Russian guests.  By the way, we do not feel ourselves as the guests. We feel at home. We come to you as to our natives. We are always glad to see you as our natives in our homes.

Really we enjoyed your amazing and blessed program. Especially we are thankful for surprises arranged by the Lord for us and for special surprise - the meeting with Ingvar Holmberg.

During already 22 years by correspondence I know the name of this person and I will tell you why. In the 90-th years when our church was planted - we came  from  the spiritual bondage during the communist regime when we were persecuted by the Soviet authority and we tried to keep and to save ourselves during this persecution. That's why we did not spread the Gospel during those years. That's why churches had to be conservative and they had no any experience for outreach in the society.

We as young ministers of the 90-th years getting spiritual freedom began to understand that we need some experience and prayer support from those who can impact the society. We had this desire to look for some prayer partners and to give our hand of friendship to those who will take it. Then we sent several hundreds letters to the different countries and cities hoping to make friends. Only one answer came to us and it was from Ljurhalla. In this letter it was written:" Recently Ingvar Holmberg visited our church and he gave your letter. We wish to make acquaintance with you and to make friends."

So our many years and blessed friendship started and we marked 22 years  this  year.  We are very grateful to the Lord that He chose His vessel  who  did  a  little but great for the sake of the Lord for the sake  of  the friendship between our churches. It was a great help for many  thousands  people  in  our city which had spiritual and physical starvation. Thousands  people got God's word, some Christian literature. Thousands prisoners and thousands orphans were encouraged and  supported. The Lord helped us to reach unreached thank to our partnership with Ljurhalla church.

It  was a result of very modest action which our dear brother Ingvar Holmberg  accomplished. We are  thankful to the Lord to have this joyful, thrilling meeting with him in Missions Ljurhalla Church. The Lord's ways are great and wonderful! Praise the Lord for all!

In His Name,
Anatoly