Reaching the ‘unreachable’ – movement in Mongolia
The gospel is spreading in Mongolia as believers in the capital are partnering with mission agencies to reach the rest of the country.
Mongolia! The very name suggests a mixture of fascination and fear. Once a great world empire under the powerful Genghis Khan, it is now an almost forgotten land squeezed between Russia to the north and China to the south. Although officially a secular state, a large proportion of Mongolians adhere to a form of Buddhism, while many others are caught up in Shamanism and superstitious folk religion. Christian witness was virtually non-existent until about 30 years ago, when through the labours of faithful missionaries from other countries gospel seeds took root and began to grow.
Miracle building for Tajik church
The little church in a village in Tajikistan was founded around 70 years ago by believers mainly from Germany and Russia who were forcibly removed by the Communists to remote parts of Central Asia.
They began to reach out to their new neighbours, by preaching and living according to God’s word. New believers were born, and the church grew. In the 1990s, the country was overrun by civil war, involving aggressive Islamic forces, and the village became a centre of radical Islam. Many church members left. Only a few elderly sisters remained to carry on, faithfully serving the Lord. Then God did a wonderful thing. He sent a new revival, this time among the indigenous Tajik people, and the church revived.