Youth With A Mission Perm Молодежь с Миссией Пермь

Our team along with the students from the Discipleship Training School (DTS) had the once-in-a-year opportunity to travel to some of the remotest villages in the northern part of the Perm province. I still cannot believe we made it there! The - 30 C weather made the rivers safe to drive on, and since we had our own vehicle, we were able to do what most people would never do, and that is drive to Chernaponava! It is the last and most remote village in the entire province. There are 40 people who live in Chernaponava. They only have electricity 1 hour a day, and the government is going to take that away in a few months. We met an old lady there who lives in a home that is in very poor condition. She was originally from Belarus, but her family was exiled to Chernaponava during Stalin's time. We talked with her for a long time and gave her a free copy of the New Testament. She is an Orthodox believer. She told us about a time the KGB broke into her home when they were having a meeting with other believers, and all the ladies ran out into the forest.

We traveled to many villages and were invited into most of the homes for tea. It was an incredible time of evangelism. The villagers were happy to receive the New Testaments. We went to one place called Traktovya. It is mostly a ghost town. Only one person lives there. The town has been without electricity already for 2 years. The life of this village was the prison, but the government closed it 3 years ago. It was amazing to see an abandoned Russian prison buried in snow. We crawled through it and climbed in the guard towers. On this trip we were able to reach hundreds of people with the Good News.