by Brant Holladay, Editor/European Director

On a recent trip to Russia, Maylou and I enjoyed the company of Ed Hembree (missionary in Romania), Andrew Bunnell (missionary in Estonia), and Maylou’s brother, Dan Miles. Our trip took us halfway around the world and thirteen times zones from Chicago O’Hare, our last stop in America.

We traveled to four BIMI missionary families to encourage them and to visit their ministries in Oryol (a six-hour train ride south of Moscow) and in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia. Our team also helped to distribute BIMI New Testaments on the Russian streets. Because of gifts from people all over the world, BIMI has placed over one million Bibles and New Testaments in former Communist countries since 1991. We are still getting God’s Word out, even providing funds for the printing of a Farsi Bible.

One important observation that we made on this trip is that the children of our missionaries are missionaries also…learning the language, helping in the ministry, and getting involved with the local people.

Below is the testimony of Rebekah Sterling, ten-year-old daughter of David and Dee Dee Sterling, BIMI missionaries in Siberia. Beka speaks Russian fluently. Then on page 6, read the way God has used the enthusiasm and dedication of siblings Alan and April Ossewaarde in Oryol, Russia.