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"Twelve years ago we were freed from Communism. As I look back, I think there are three primary factors responsible for our growth: the call and purpose of God for my life; the purposes of God for Europe, Ukraine and the former Soviet Union; and most important, the grace of God.
Here are some other important factors:
• A high level of dedication and God centeredness
• Character, integrity and honesty with God and man
• Sound and powerful teaching of the Word
• Constant demonstration of the supernatural
• Social involvement of the church in society
• Strong structure and administration
• Recognition of women as equal partners in Christ for the harvest
• The ability to mobilize and motivate the church for action
• Strong and fervent prayer
• Freedom and an environment focused on individual fulfillment
• The ability to overcome cultural barriers
• Work, work and more work
Out of Africa by C.
Peter Wagner and Joseph Thompson, general editors
Copyright December 2003
Gospel Light/Regal Books, Ventura, CA 93003
Used by Permission
Sunday Adelaja
Sunday Sunkanmi Adelaja was born in the village of Idomila Ijebu-Ode, Nigeria. It should be noted that the youngest of these “youths” was 20 years of age.
However, the call of God on my life had occurred some time before that. They claimed that we were desocializing their children, because several children had stopped watching television, others had stopped dating, while some others had begun to criticize the ungodly behavior of their peers and family members. This is also the case with over 300 more daughter churches.
Later I realized that this was actually my missionary call; just as God called Paul on the Damascus road, so He was calling me. Only God knew how much I resisted that assignment—for one thing, I did not have the money to buy a ticket to Kiev—but God enabled me to beat the odds by sovereignly guiding my footsteps.
We appealed to the Body of Christ all over the world to pray for us, and huge numbers fervently did so. He had just signed a contract with an independent, commercial television station in Kiev, and he needed a person who could represent his interests. God needs people who will not toy with firsthand information—people who will not give what is meant for the children to the dogs.
It was not more than a few weeks after I had returned to Belarus that I received a call from Jeff Davis. In November, at my apartment I started a Bible study program that attracted about seven people. "I think it is a more Russian phenomenon, which came here.
My Missionary Call
In one of the underground meetings, the leader of the group of foreigners, while encouraging us to remain steadfast in the Lord, asked us to seek the face of the Lord as to why He might have brought us to Russia in the first place.
Slava became so curious that he asked me to create a program based on Christian values. The only strategy for survival in such spiritually challenging circumstances is the fear of God.
The fear of the LORD is to hate evil; pride and arrogance and the evil way and the perverse mouth I hate (Prov. I had always believed and taught that if there is a long-lasting problem, it is only because we have not prayed or we have not prayed enough.
The church also works with addicted people and has a program helping addicted people to be set free from various addictions.