Good Word

I know a friend of mine that worked for Texaco for 20+ years and retired early, gave up his home and all of his worldly belongings and him and his wife moved to Osh, Kyrgyzstan to become missionaries.  That was over 6 years ago.  Wow how time flies.  Anyway, they write periodically about how things are going for them and what they are up to and about recent events. 

So, they sent an email to everyone as they usually do, and told of a story about a young man named Muzaffar who is a missionary himself, and works for Campus Crusade for Christ.  The story was that he was in need of serious funding for his missions and that he was reaching out to us to help support him.  I of course responded and gave.  The awesome thing now is that I am receiving emails from him now periodically and felt that I had to share his testimonies with you all.  I am going to paste a recent email below and share it with you.  Please keep in mind that his English isn’t perfect, so work with the writing of what he’s intending to say.  Keep them all in your prayers!  Blessings:

Winter evening, there is no snow but in spite of very cold. I came back to home from students meeting and decided to go to gum. Usually in the evening the gum full. Most of them youth: high school and college students. At the gum I met one guy. He was about twenty years old, thin and his yes were sorrowful. He was doing excises not correct and without any interest. I came to him and told that how important to do correct an excises on bodybuilding. And showed him how to do correct some excises. By the way I introduced myself and asked his name. His name was Zalckar, junior student of Juridical Academy. After gum we were walking together. I asked him about his family, his hobbies and why he decided to be a lawyer? He started telling me that he is oldest son in his family and was grew up at grand fathers family. When he was about 16 years old he has return to his own family. His parents last five years are living in Kazakhstan. “About my hobbies, nothing is interesting me now. I have not been at college almost three months. The life is not interesting for me and I do not have a hope even. You know, the reason is my little brother died recently. He made suicide. I don’t know why he has done it. As an older son I would to watch over him. I gilt myself on his death… Almost three months I do not go to outside, I’m just sitting at home, I do not want to talk with people…  Recently I started to come to gum”.  The death of his little brother was a reason of his yes sorrow. Zalckars word: “The life is not interesting for me and I do not have a hope even”- touched my heart deeply. I started thinking: “I have a hope and my hope is Christ”. At that moment I turned to Zalckar and told: “Jesus Christ is the Hope for all and of course for you too. I don’t know why God let it happen in your life but He has a plan about your life. God is good. I want to pray for you”.  Through all my way to home I prayed for Zalckar.  When I came to home I shared with my roommate about Zalckar and we were praying for him asking the Lord to consulate him, give a hope… The Lord put into my heart to pray a lot for Zalckar. I started spend a time with Zalckar after gum. He often comes to my place and we played games with other brothers and just hanging out. I figure out that he has not laughing even difficult to find a smile on his cheek. A little brother death was painful for him. I kept going to pray for him and asked pray my Bible study group.  Once I have inviting him to Bible study group he has come.            

Many times I shared Gospel with him. It was a difficult to understand for him that Christ is God. Each time we talked about spiritual thing: Gods love, end of the time, why there is a lot of religion…  Every time when I’ve been inviting him to the church he refused. Three months passed. Once I met him at the supermarket he was working there. I was glad for him that he has found a job. It was a little hope for me that Zalckar started interesting with something…In June I haven’t seen him about three weeks. I called him and his aunt told me that he in the hospital and he is sick. When I got an address of the hospital I went there. When he saw me he was wonder. He has catch a cold and something happened with his lungs and doctors were taking out water from his lungs.  He told me: “This summer I was planning to go to Kazakhstan to visit my parents. But now I’m sick.  I’m so young and sick”.  I prayed for his health and went home.Once after Bible study group I have talking again with Zalckar about Christ more than the three hours, beginning from Genesis till Revelation. He has asking a lot of questions and also listening very carefully.  At the end I asked him why he doesn’t want accept Christ as Lord and Savior? He responded that the reason is his parents. He was afraid of their reaction if he will become a Christian and also that his is not ready for now.  But for me it was very interesting to see our influence for him. Because often when we were around unbeliever guys Zalckar was telling about Gods love and mercy. Most of his behaviors were if he was a believer. In October we had a student conference and we decided to invite him. I explained him the goal of the conference and he decide to go to conference. On the conference he was wonder when he saw a lot of Christian students from with their Muslim background and from almost whole Central Asia. He asked them why they are become a Christian? How was theirs parent reaction?  We had time to share Gospel on the conference and he came to us and sad that he also wants to go to share Gospel.  At the end of conference we called Zalckar to accept Christ as his Lord and Savior and he did.  Hallelujah!!! Praise the Lord!   I was full of joy, almost cry. I told to him: “I prayed a lot to see this day and I had a hope for this”. He sad: “I accepted Christ as my Lord and Savior but I’m not sure that He accepted my invitation”. I told him that Lord accepts everyone who calls His name and prayed for Zalckar.  Now together we going through follow up materials. When I told him how important to attend a church he goes to the church almost every week.  I’m so thankful to the Lord that He gave to him a hope and joy and used us as an instrument in His hand.  Recently we had with church youth evangelical meeting and I was sharing my testimony. There were some unbeliever guys and one of them pointing to the Zalckar and other unbeliever guys sad: “Christ not for us I mean for Muslim”. “Christ for everyone!”,- loudly responded Zalckar.  Could you, please, pray for Zalckars spiritual growth? On each prayer meeting he asks to pray for that.  His parent doesn’t know about his faith, please, pray for the day and hour when he will tell them. Also for his health and that our mighty God will protect him from any kind of evil. Thank you for being a part of my ministry. I appreciate it. Serving with you… Muzaffar.