Little Mark is doing well, praise the Lord! His left lung is functioning well now. He and his mom have been discharged from hospital. Thank you all, who has supported us in prayer. We will keep you in touch about this blessed child.

A new-born baby dies in our sister church in Plastun. He was born with some defect of left lung. He couldn’t breathe because of that. Please pray for his complete healing right know! We need your prayer help!

On May 2 Assistant Pastor Viktor Korotkov and the Leader of Plastun church Viktor Pels left for South Korea to have a 3-week course at the Pastors’ Training Seminary regularly hold by Korean brothers for Russian pastors and ministers. Besides very intensive theological study program they are going to have an insight into this nation’s life and culture and church activities. We believe they will have a good time with other Russian pastors and teachers from South Korea and the United States and get good spiritual food and refreshment that will be of great benefit for both churches as they share what they will receive on coming back to Plastun and Vladivostok.

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March 2 to 5 God granted us another opportunity to visit our brothers and sisters in the church of Plastun. Victor Korotkov, assistant pastor, gives his first-hand account on the journey.

I took the morning bus to Plastun planning to reach the destination at 10 p.m. I preferred it to the option of taking the next bus at 3.30 p.m arriving at Plastun at 6 a.m. The idea of jogging in the bus all night did not  appeal to me very much.

So, on March 2 at 7.30 a.m. sharp, the South-Korean Grandbird headed the north to Plastun. With the almost 15 hours’ journey ahead of me, I had an excellent opportunity to meditate on the great things of God. (read more…)

Pastor of the Church Victor Pels and his wife Tanya

Please pray for new ministries to emerge and get strong, such as
- ministry to children (Sunday school)
- ministry to youth
- ministry to seniors.
Please pray for good quality of these ministries.

There is a vision to start a special prayer group to purposely pray for the town of Plastun to claim it as God’s possession. The church plans to continue reaching the town both through holding massive outreaches and by winning souls one by one through personal testimony. Showing Chrisitian movies is a great means of evangelism that always gathers a large audience. The church needs a video-projector for this purpose. Please pray about it. (read more…)

ORTA students and Maria Vdovina

According to the church leader, Victor Pels, the church did 4 outreach crusades in 2005, both independently and in cooperation with other local churches and a missionary team from the US. 3 baptism services were held with 11 new church members baptised. The latest baptism service took place in December… in Pels’s bath tub.
Easter celebration on May 1 was a great event, very exciting and inspiring for both the church and the community. The church co-worked with the local Baptist congregation to perform songs, a special program for kids and the holiday special, puppet-show on the gospel of Luke.
Another highlight was Christmas celebration on December 25. The church prepared a special worship and praise program, a Christmas play and tea and treats for visitors. They put together Christmas gifts for children who attended the service. This year the church did not put up any posters, just prayed. Nevertheless, they had a full house. The auditorium could not seat everyone and some had to stand. About 60 persons attended and 37 gifts were presented to children.
Victor Pels attended the training seminar for ORTA tutors in September and started the first extension Bible college course for the church members willing to become students and receive systematic theological education in an available, local-based, relevant and applicable to life form. Currently tutoring 12 students, Pels says, “This schooling has been a great blessing for the church.
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Vladivostok team and Plastun church members

Тhe church in Plastun is alive and active. They experience God’s blessing. The Lord builds up the church and adds new converts. The congregation has grown to 30 members, twice as many as 1 year ago. More young people 16 to 19 years old start attending (read more…)

Viktor Korotkov, Andrei and Maria Vdovin and Anna Wrousel, a missionary from Canada, visited the sister church in Plastun on 5 to 10 January. They took part in the church prayer meeting and Sunday church service, and visited many church members at their homes. After a tiresome 17 hours’ ride in the bus it was a good ‘meeting and eating’ time. Fellowship, food and fun was abundant!

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This Sunday we had a privilege to welcome precious guests from out sister Light to the world church in Plastun, 450 miles from Vladivostok, pastor Victor and Andrei, his assistant. As Victor spoke at church, he thanked the congregation for their unceasing prayer for Plastun, for the outreach teams that come every year, and for many other ways the Life in the Word church has supported Light to the world church in Plastun. “Be sure, that everything you have done for us, has brought good fruit. People get saved and join the church. And we are very thankful to you for everything you do for us.” The church prayed for brother Viktor and the sister church in Plastun.

Some pictures from Plastun church.


Church leader Victor Pels. Not a church leader yet back then in 2003, is being baptized.

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 Here our newsletter for April 2005

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 Here our news letter for August 2004

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