{"id":5756,"date":"2017-10-17T14:17:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-17T14:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/disciplestoday.org\/clone\/clone\/2017\/10\/17\/europe-eurasia-eurasia-item-8732-update-from-azerbaijan\/"},"modified":"2023-09-18T20:50:49","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T18:50:49","slug":"europe-eurasia-eurasia-item-8732-update-from-azerbaijan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disciplestoday.org\/clone\/europe-eurasia-eurasia-item-8732-update-from-azerbaijan\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazing Things from Azerbaijan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n<center>\n  <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"630\" height=\"356\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/disciplestoday.org\/clone\/clone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/azerbaijan_wedding.jpg?resize=630%2C356&#038;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/disciplestoday.org\/clone\/clone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/azerbaijan_wedding.jpg 630w, https:\/\/disciplestoday.org\/clone\/clone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/azerbaijan_wedding-300x170.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\">\n<\/center>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Amazing things are happening in the capital city of the Muslim nation of Azerbaijan as shared by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurasianmissions.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eurasian Missions<\/a>. On September 15, 2017, the church in Baku celebrated the very first wedding between two members in its 20 year history! For the past seven years, Kyamal Ibragimov has been the only single brother in this small church of fourteen disciples. About a year ago, Kyamal invited a former work colleague to church, a young lady named Zara. She became a Christian, and over the course of the last year, they developed a relationship and were married. The newlyweds have a dream to serve God, to reach out to young people, and have been a tremendous encouragement to Alek and Seville Musayev, who currently volunteer their time to lead the church. The church held a marriage retreat in June of 2017. Every non-Christian spouse of the church members attended &#8212; the husband of one of our sisters and two Muslim wives of two of our faithful brothers. After the retreat, they all said that they were very impressed with the openness of the disciples, as they all discussed together the challenges of being married, during the retreat. In August, a brother named Misha was restored to the fellowship. He had been baptized in the church in St. Petersburg, Russia, 20 years ago, and had left the church 15 years ago. During that time, he had endured many hardships, including divorce, and challenges with his health. Eventually, he returned to his hometown of Baku. He saw his need for God and we are thrilled that he has returned to the church! The country of Azerbaijan is about the size of the state of South Carolina in the USA. At the moment, the fourteen disciples in Baku are engaged in studying the Bible with nine people who are coming out to church and are learning what the Bible says about how to become a Christian. Please pray for these needs of the church in Baku: <\/p>\n<ul>\n  <li> They need financial help to be able to send their teens to camp in Moscow in the summer. <\/li>\n  <li> They need financial help to pay for a regular meeting place for the church. All summer they have met outdoors in a park. It is already too cold for them to do this and will be impossible in the winter. <\/li>\n  <li> They need a full-time ministry couple to lead the church in Baku and help spread the gospel to the nation of Azerbaijan. <\/li>\n<\/ul> Thank you so much for your prayers! The disciples in Azerbaijan send their love and gratitude! <p><\/p>\n<center>\n  <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"632\" height=\"474\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/disciplestoday.org\/clone\/clone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/bahu_church.jpg?resize=632%2C474&#038;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/disciplestoday.org\/clone\/clone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/bahu_church.jpg 632w, https:\/\/disciplestoday.org\/clone\/clone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/bahu_church-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 632px) 100vw, 632px\">\n<\/center>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazing things are happening in the capital city of the Muslim nation of Azerbaijan as shared by Eurasian Missions .&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":5757,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ghostkit_customizer_options":"","ghostkit_custom_css":"","ghostkit_custom_js_head":"","ghostkit_custom_js_foot":"","ghostkit_typography":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[71],"tags":[],"post_folder":[151],"class_list":["post-5756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/disciplestoday.org\/clone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/azerbaijan_wedding.jpg?fit=630%2C356&ssl=1","author_info":{"display_name":"dtadmin","author_link":"https:\/\/disciplestoday.org\/clone\/author\/dtadmin\/"},"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phsvEw-1uQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5621,"url":"https:\/\/disciplestoday.org\/clone\/missions-item-8825-the-future-is-bright-for-eurasian-missions\/","url_meta":{"origin":5756,"position":0},"title":"The Future is Bright for Eurasian Missions","author":"dtadmin","date":"December 11, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Over the weekend of November 4, 2017, in Moscow, during the national holiday weekend for Unification of Russia Day, and the 100th anniversary of the Communist Bolshevik Revolution, 36 very inspiring, aspiring-ministers from seven cities across Eurasia, gathered to study an overview of the New Testament, at the second session\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/disciplestoday.org\/clone\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/disciplestoday.org\/clone\/clone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/dd964113-c293-402b-ac0f-acb8e680f56d.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":5763,"url":"https:\/\/disciplestoday.org\/clone\/are-we-learning-from-the-mission-field\/","url_meta":{"origin":5756,"position":1},"title":"Are We Learning from the Mission Field?","author":"dtadmin","date":"October 11, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Are we missing opportunities to learn from churches on the mission field as we are supporting them? 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