Village Gospel Harvest - preaching the Good News in the most remote areas of Russia!

There is LIFE above the Polar circle! God's Life!

( part 1)

Like there is no MINUS 38 Celsius!

Which is MINUS 36 Fahrenheit!

After 4 hour flight I arrived to Norilsk and I looked through the window and was amazed how in the world planes are taking off and landing to absolutely icy runway! Life is going on like there is no - 38 Celsius !

On the way from the airport we turn to the road toward administrative center of Taimyr peninsula - Dudinka, there is beautiful sculpture illuminated with images of deer skin huts (tents) and big letters - TAIMYR and Russian flag!Just beautiful to see it the midst of snowy vast field.

Dudinka is place where people from Tundra and villages of Taimyr are coming to handle all kinds of legal matters with local authorities. It is where all the children from Tundra are brought for 9 months to bоаrding school. Dudinka - is where our church is and where our missionaries base is.

Everything in Dudinka is "THE MOST NORTHERN"!

Taimyr giraffe

Dudinka is the most northern port in Russia on river Enisey flowing into Karskoe sea! Pastor Marina and her assistant Snezhana - they are also missionaries who reach tundra people - took me on sightseeing to the port. I do not like go touring when come to ministier but this time we did it))) I wanted to see this beautiful construction crane but now is rebuilt in a tourist object - Taimyr giraffe!

Everything here in Dudnika is THE MOST NORTHERN!

Arctic museum of Dudinka is the most northern museum in Russia. So it means, our church is the most northern church in Russia)))))))!!

Amazing how practical you can get when there are no stairs between two walls of snow))) to go up from port .

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Chosen nation of Nenets!

The first day of my arrival we had the most precious fellowship with local ethnic group of people who grew up in tundra and some continue living there with the deers and living in winter tents made of deer skins.

Most of the young ladies and older women are from one big clan of Vango ( last name mens dog's ear). All of them are just so beautiful ! They all came to to participate at their first women's conference organised by us just for them!

The pagan culture they grew up puts women in the lowest position at home and in tundra! They are often beaten ,and they are doing the most dirty and difficult work there.

Look at their beautiful faces!

This woman Anna was sitting close to me, flew helicopter from tundra just for the conference. She said that her husband did not want to let her go at first but in the morning said she may go to Dudinka for the weekend)) She wore the most beautiful hand made boots. Just deer skin, needle and thick tread. With her own hands. They make their own the most practical and beautiful clothes.

The teenage boy next to her - Vlad ( is from another clan) and at the age of 13 he is an alcoholic and came to Duninka to see a doctor. His jaw is cracked after drunk fight. We prayed for him and he was listening to us talking about Jesus and testimonies of Vango clan of how Jesus changed their lives.

Amazing how God is choosing the whole ethnic clans to change nations. One person at a time! I am so humbled and honoured by the fact that in Taimyr we are the church that God chose to do His work. Not just preaching the Gospel and distributing Bibles but raising leaders among nations of the North!

The first convert in the clan was Katya, She got saved when came to our church broken and pregnant because left tundra and start drinking and sleeping with men. But she met Snezhana and heard the Gospel, came to church and gave her heart to the Lord! Her sister Masha was second , it took years for Masha to finally get tired of crazy lifestyle and come to the Lord. But these two preached the Gospel to so many tundra people and their clan watch they lives absolutely transformed and one ofter another started to come to the Lord!