Discipleship Amid Hostility
Reaching the Unreached: Turco-Russia
LC3 is committed to sharing the love of Jesus with unreached people groups around the world. Predominantly Muslim, Dagestan is a republic in southern European Russia, nestled in the Caucasus region and bordering Georgia, Chechnya, Azerbaijan, and Kalmykia. More than three million people live across its many cities and villages, including about 600,000 residents in Makhachkala, the capital and largest city.
Yasmin is a Christian leader faithfully serving in Dagestan. Though she has faced rejection and persecution from family and neighbors because of her faith, she continues to serve the Lord through prayer, personal witness, and the distribution of audio Scriptures. She also helps translate God’s Word into the language of one of Dagestan’s largest ethnic groups.
With no baptistry available, she baptized them in her own bathtub.
After six years of prayer, a breakthrough came. A 19-year-old young woman Yasmin had been praying for returned with her mother, asking for prayer and healing. The daughter asked that her vision, hearing, and speech would be restored. Yasmin prayed in the name of Jesus, and the young woman was healed. In that moment, her mother placed her faith in Christ and is now reading the Bible.
In another powerful step of obedience, three women Yasmin had previously led to the Lord came to her asking to be baptized. With no baptistry available, Yasmin baptized them in her own bathtub. Today, these women and others gather daily for Bible study, prayer, and fellowship—boldly following Jesus despite the risk of persecution.
LC3 is committed to sharing the love of Jesus with unreached people groups around the world. Predominantly Muslim, Dagestan is a republic in southern European Russia, nestled in the Caucasus region and bordering Georgia, Chechnya, Azerbaijan, and Kalmykia. More than three million people live across its many cities and villages, including about 600,000 residents in Makhachkala, the capital and largest city.
Yasmin is a Christian leader faithfully serving in Dagestan. Though she has faced rejection and persecution from family and neighbors because of her faith, she continues to serve the Lord through prayer, personal witness, and the distribution of audio Scriptures. She also helps translate God’s Word into the language of one of Dagestan’s largest ethnic groups.
With no baptistry available, she baptized them in her own bathtub.
After six years of prayer, a breakthrough came. A 19-year-old young woman Yasmin had been praying for returned with her mother, asking for prayer and healing. The daughter asked that her vision, hearing, and speech would be restored. Yasmin prayed in the name of Jesus, and the young woman was healed. In that moment, her mother placed her faith in Christ and is now reading the Bible.
In another powerful step of obedience, three women Yasmin had previously led to the Lord came to her asking to be baptized. With no baptistry available, Yasmin baptized them in her own bathtub. Today, these women and others gather daily for Bible study, prayer, and fellowship—boldly following Jesus despite the risk of persecution.
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