Mongolia Mission (MM) joined the Ten Days of Prayer program, as part of the Adventist world church’s yearly event, from Jan. 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 Mongolia Mission officers and staff members to visit 10 local churches in 10 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 to 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 that MM normally has 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.
But the activity at the bus stop did not end with the conclusion of the event, but became a continuing ministry. During weekdays, on their 15-minute break time, the office staff led by Purevdulam Jugderjav, MM’s newly appointed Children’s and Health Ministries director, and Pastor Batsukh 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 pack 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 5th 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 that works in the heart 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 have started a friendship with the street vendors who even share their candies with the church members in exchange for the church’s gift pack.
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.