Pray for Our Unsaved Friends Here In Kazakhstan                         back to Heinz Homepage 

Last Updated:   1/20/2009

Please use this page to pray for our unsaved friends here.  This page is for people who do not attend our church.  (Goolmira is an exception because she just started attending our church last year.)  The unsaved relatives of those who attend our church are listed on the Regular Attenders page.  See:  Profiles of Regular Attenders 2009

 

In addition to those mentioned below keep praying for.  

  • The president and government officials of this country.

  • Merlin.  A young professional in the oil and gas business that I met in 2008.

  • Molly's pork-seller at the market. And all of the many sellers and clerks we do business with regularly.

  • English club students from the years we taught English in town.
People who live in our ministry center building.  There are 144 apartments in this building.  We sponsor projects to improve the building through our humanitarian fund.  Things like playground equipment, fixing the roof, fixing the elevators, buying new pumps for the heating system, building a perimeter fence for security.  We also help to pay the salaries of the floor washers.
Nazerke and family.  She is the woman we pay to wash floors at our ministry center building.  She is with her husband and mom in this photo.

  • Alma and family.  The president of the owners association at our ministry center apartment building.  Alma is the third in a line of presidents.  The first two misused the funds they collected.  She is a responsible, hard-working and we believe honest leader.  We thank God for her and pray for her salvation.

  • Bob.  Not his realy name.  He is also a floor washer at the ministry center.

  • Meiram and family. (The lady we get our apartment heating bill from every month.

  • All the children and adults we have met through teaching English to those who live in the Ministry Center building.  See:  2003 English Club For Children and 2003 Adult English Clubs  

  • All the senior citizens we have met through our evangelistic lunches.  See: Ministry Center 2005 2004 2003  2001 2000

 

 

 

The following photos are in no particular grouping.
Azhar.  She was our hair cutter in the shop near our house until spring of 2008.  She left work to marry.  She also had her first child in the summer of 2008. Peter and Rustam.  They have done plumbing work on our heating systems in our home and church.  Rustam is also Goolmira from english club's neighbor.  They are Tartars.

Right:  Goolmira (in pink) and Yerbol (in orange)

We met Goolmira in 2001.  She was in our English club for 2 years. (See photos of Goolmira in 2001 and 2003 below)  She was and continues to be full of questions about God and the Bible and Jesus Christ.   We have presented the Gospel and talked about Jesus Christ with her for many dozens of hours over the years, but she is not a believer yet.  We visit for birthday dinners and Kazakh holidays 3 or 4  times a year.  In 2007 we began seeing more of each other and of her husband Yerbol.  He is a narcotics policeman.  He enrolled in the police academy when he was 18.  All of the instruction was in Russian and he didn't speak a word of Russian when he started.  But he stuck it out and did well. 

 

2008:  Yerbol had a successful gall bladder operation this year.  He can't eat any fat or drink any alcohol since the operation.  He is doing great and continuing to work on the police force until the economic situation improves here.  Goolmira stated coming to church this year, a big praise.  She comes for a few weeks and then misses a few weeks.  There were some accidental deaths in their families this year and Goolmira's father died of cancer.  We love Yerbol's mom and dad and Goolmira's mom.  They are educated Kazakhs and it is always so interesting to talk to them.  We know nearly all of their brothers and sisters and aunts and uncles.  Pray for many in this family to see the glory of God in the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

 

 

Left:  Goolmira in white, 2001. 

 

 

 

Right:  Erbol's parents, a sister and nephews.  You can see the back of Molly's head in the right foreground.

Below Left and Right:  Our neighbors.  Eyesha with Molly.  Javeet with his daughters Nargeeza and Voosala and his niece.  The family is doing better since Javeet switched jobs and was able to move back to Almaty.  Eyesha is sewing at the bazaar.  The oldest girl (Nargeeza) got married in 2007 and had her first child in 2008.  Voosala is in college now and driving her dad's silver Mercedes around town.  Pray for their salvation.

 At Right:  Ira Ida and her family (except for her youngest Noorik.  Ira Ida was our Kazakh teacher for 2 years.  We see her about once a year now.  She moved to Astana in 2007 and is currently teaching the upper level Government Ministers Kazakh.  Her oldest girl (Eyenoor) is married with children.  Sawle (in white) is studying at university in China. 

 

We plan on making a one week trip to see her in the summer of 2009.  Pray for salvation.  

At Right:  Samat and Laili.  Laili cooked for our ministry center pensioners lunches for about 9 months.  Then she took a full time job as a graphic designer for a local ad paper.  Samat is a surgeon.  Please pray for their salvation.

Right and Below Right:  Building relationships at our Ministry Center.  Karowbek, Maria, and their son Adil (which means faithful in Kazak) had us over for Sunday "tea".  As you can see this is more than tea but Kazakhs are masters of hospitality!  We really like this family and hope to become better friends.

This family has moved away to build a house.  Maria's sister is a believer.  Pray for their salvation.

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