Mongolia Mission (MM) joined the Ten Days of Prayer program, as part of the Adventist World Church’s annual event, on January 5–10, 2022. This year’s theme was “The Three Angels Call to Prayer.” Pastor Nyamsuren Myagmar, MM Ministerial secretary, and Pastor Batsukh Oyuntuya, MM Family and Women’s Ministries director, led MM officers and staff members to visit ten local churches in ten days while encouraging church members to join the prayer movement. All church pastors and lay leaders were given the opportunity to participate in the program as preachers, prayer leaders, or through special music.
About 15–30 members prayed together face to face in each church. The prayer meetings were also livestreamed via Facebook. Each meeting had 600 to 1,000 viewers, which is more than any face-to-face meeting MM had normally held in the years before the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Ten Days of Prayer concluded with a community service activity at the bus stop in front of the MM office. All MM workers went out to distribute the gospel book, Power of Hope, with a bundle of face masks. This activity began from sharing ideas on how MM could do a simple mission activity in the most accessible location at the end of the prayer event.
However, the activity at the bus stop did not end with the conclusion of the event but instead became a continuing ministry. On weekdays, during their 15-minute break time, the office staff, led by Purevdulam Jugderjav, MM’s newly appointed Children’s and Health Ministries director, and Pastor Oyuntuya, together prepare 100 books bundled with five face masks, a toothbrush, and toothpaste wrapped with a gift ribbon. And every Friday, they distribute the gift packs at the bus stop on their way home for Sabbath preparation.
A week after they started the bus stop mission, Pastor Tsolmontuya Nergui, the pastor of Bayankhair Church, on the fifth floor of the MM office, whose contact information was stamped on every distributed book, got a call from a person whose sister received the book, Power of Hope. How great is the Holy Spirit, who works in the hearts of those receiving these books!
Other local churches in Ulaanbaatar also followed up with this distribution activity. Through the leadership of Brother Enkchulun Khuderchuluun, voluntary lay leader of Amazing Grace Church, the church members have distributed the books in the community near their church and started a friendship with the street vendors, who even share their candies with the church members in exchange for the church’s gift packs.
Let us continue to pray for this simple bus stop mission, that it may lead more people to come to Jesus and accept Him as their personal Savior in His time.
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