After 12 days evangelising in Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan, October 2021, my heart burns with a vision for Central Asia - this is God's desire to see His glory displayed in countries filled with false religion. I sense 2021 and beyond will prove to be as significant as 30 years ago when the Lord Himself opened the former Soviet Union for the preaching of the Gospel, from one side to the other, across 10 time zones. Now something as great, no greater, than the revival that took place in the 1990s, is opening up to me – a new Mission Field – the whole of the former Soviet countries of Central Asia.
From 30 September to 11 October, by Divine appointment, I was in Central Asia – evangelising!
First, an intensive 3-day weekend of ministry in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan: 8 meetings in 3 different locations – ministering to Russian-speaking Kyrgyz and multi-ethnic peoples, believers and unbelievers. Between meetings I spent time with individual pastors and leaders from all over the nation. On arrival, I was interviewed by the local Bishkek Evening News: my message, in this former Soviet Republic where 90 percent of the population is culturally Moslem, was the Gospel message of a God who so loved the world that He gave His only Son... Pastor Vasiliy who invited me, went through the fires of persecution under communism – but in his basement he was handprinting Bibles! “Because of the Moslem background here” he says, “in Asia you can't build a church without miracles.” Thank God for those who were healed and who repented in these three busy days.
From Kyrgyzstan we flew to Uzbekistan. First the miracle church in Yangiyul – just a concrete frame when I visited in 2019, now ready to be officially opened by the local Moslem mayor later this year! Delayed by Covid, now post Covid, instead of one Sunday meeting, they have three! Young people, and missionaries working all over Central Asia, including Afghanistan, attended our Conference. Lives were changed and miracles of healing occurred.
In Samarkand we held a powerful evangelistic meeting: people repented, others were healed. We also spent time in the home of local believers and with local pastors. We were so deeply moved by their testimonies, how out of Islam they came to know the Lord, the persecutions they’ve had, the miracles the Lord has worked in them and through them, in answer to prayer and sovereignly...
Back in Tashkent, our first meeting was with a group of the leading pastors in Uzbekistan – who already know me because of what God has done in Ukraine through my ministry. Together we prepared a programme of evangelism with such a sense of urgency, it could begin this year, but needs constant urgent prayer to make it possible. The following day we brought together 200 pastors and leaders from all Central Asia, for two days of Prayer and Impartation. In all Central Asia I am seeing a remarkable unity – across very diverse Christian groups in the face of cultural, political and radical Islam – in answer to Christ’s prayer that we all be one... God has opened an incredible door for evangelism, the Believers here are desperate for me to come: and until Christ comes, this is my new Mission Field.
