CIS Prayer: Prayer Update

[CarlaSun@aol.com]

Dear Prayer Partners,

We thank you so much for all your prayers for all that has happened here on the Field in the last few weeks.

Chuck will return from Kazakhstan tomorrow morning.   He reports that the Lord's presence has been so real during his classes.  He has had 21 students in his "Doctrine of Holiness" class.   One evening 18 came forward to pray for entire sanctification.   His translator even came to visit him personally and ask if Chuck could pray with him.   The young man told him that participating in this class had been like attending a revival.   We praise the Lord!

Please lift the Korea missionaries in Kazakhstan to the Lord.   Last week two Korean missionaries (NOT Nazarene) in Karaganda were murdered.   There were two separate incidents but both occurred because men, dressed as utility workers, came to apartments to repair telephones.   When they entered the apartments they killed the missionaries and robbed them.   Michael traveled to Karaganda on Friday for the funeral of the young mother that was killed.   Her husband had just taken their two children to school when the two men posing as utility workers arrived.   This has really shaken the Korean missionary community in Central Asia.   Please keep them in your prayers.   

We also want to thank you all for your support of those suffering from the recent Terrorist attacks in Russia.   Many of you have asked if we have heard more from the Evangelical pastors in Beslan.   Here is a note which was sent to the Association of Christian Churches in Russia from the Totiev families:
"We thank the Lord for your quick, loving hearts, which have taken upon themselves our pain, our loss, as your own and personal.   We love you and from all of our hearts we are thankful for your support, our dear brothers and sisters.   Without your prayers it would not be possible to survive this horror..."

There are many happenings on the Field and we ask you to pray for the following:
* The Work and Witness team from Washington in St. Petersburg working on their new camp/retreat center.
* The Work and Witness team from Flint Central arriving tomorrow in St. Petersburg and then traveling to Volgograd to work on the Sovietskaya Church//Education Center.   Please pray especially for Rev. Sergei and Nina Archakov who will be working with this team.   Sergei is the DS of the Russia South district.   
* The Work and Witness team from Kirkland, Washington working in Mariupole, Ukraine.   The ministry to alcoholics and drug addicts continues to bring more and more people to the Lord.   Please pray that we are able to complete the building in Mariupole so that we are able to minister to more individuals.
* Carla Sunberg will be teaching Spiritual Formation in Gyumri, Armenia beginning on Friday.   Please pray that this will be a time of real spiritual growth for the students there.   Chuck will join Carla there on October 1st for a baptism service.
* Colleen Skinner and her father, Dr. Ron Beech will be teaching Intro to Missions in Kyiv and then in Mariupole in the next couple of weeks.   Please pray that the Lord will be with them in their travels and in the ministry of teaching these classes.

Thanks so much for praying.   We are so very, very grateful!!!

Chuck and Carla Sunberg for the CIS Team