Missionaries Sending Missionaries

Pray for your local church and the local churches in Slavic countries. Ask the Lord to increase the spiritual life of each member of the church. Ask Him to assist your church in the area where you live to seek souls with salvation from sin. And may this assistance extend throughout the whole world. Pray for your pastor and leadership, as well as the pastors and leadership in the Slavic world. Pray for peace in the world. Ask God to restrain evil through the Holy Spirit in order that His Word may have free course in every country.

In early Christian times, the practice of hospitality was highly prized among believers. Hospitality is the expression of love that looks upon all believers as members of one family and provides for those believers who travel from place to place in order to fulfill their calling in the Faith. “And do not neglect doing good and sharing, for which such sacrifices God is pleased” (Hebrews 13:16). Hospitality was a potent means to further the Gospel and was practiced with overflowing goodness and generosity.

Recently, Rob Zapotoski, Interim Director of Slavic Missionary Service, had the privilege of extending hospitality to a missionary couple from Belarus who will be working with university students primarily in Minsk. They travelled to America to raise awareness concerning their ministry and to seek supporters to partner with them both prayerfully and financially. (Their support will be sent to them through another reliable and trustworthy mission that focuses on ministry with college students.)

Interestingly, the young missionaries are members of the Resurrection Church in Borovliany, Belarus. This church has been established and constructed through the ministry of Slavic Missionary Service, and SMS is currently supporting its two pastors. (Both pastors are involved in various outreaches and ministries.) What a joy to see that a missionary church is already obeying the Great Commission and sending out other missionaries! “For they went out for the sake of the Name… therefore we ought to support such men, that we may be fellow-workers with the truth” (3 John 7-8).

Gratitude is extended to all those families, friends and churches that made the first visit of this missionary couple to America extremely satisfying and spiritually successful! “Be devoted to one another in brotherly love… contributing to the needs of the saints, practicing hospitality” (Romans 12:10-13). Pray that God will continue to help SMS to assist their national workers and others to “go into all the world and preach the Gospel to all creation” (Mark 16:15).

You have made known to me the path of life; you will fill me with joy in your presence, with eternal pleasures at your right hand.

Psalm 16:11

God’s strategy for world evangelism calls for two equally important elements: Co-missionaries and Go-missionaries, the senders and the sent, the supporters and the workers. A Christian church without missionary enthusiasm is a contradiction. God depends upon the faithful testimony of His people for the evangelization of the world. The Savior expects those who have tasted the sweetness of salvation to spread the news far and wide. He has commissioned His children to share His Word to the lost in every country.