January 2006
Mosaic is the monthly news bulletin of Rosedale Mennonite Missions and is distributed through CMC churches. Because this publication may contain information about workers and ministries in sensitive locations, the entire content is not available online.

Last year, RMM marked each conversion that took place through the ministry of our workers by placing a rosebud in a vase in our office. This served as a visual reminder to the office staff to pray for these new believers. It wasn’t long before the first vase was full and another one was needed. By the end of 2005, 64 individuals from 11 countries had made decisions to follow Jesus. Three of the most recent “rosebuds” are introduced below.

Faith Spreading in Central Asia
An RMM missionary in Central Asia has been meeting with a group of women and girls and many of them have turned to Christ. Here she introduces three who have recently made that decision.

“Poetess” has already had to take a stand with a man from the secret police who saw her reading the New Testament. He wanted to know who gave her the book and who she met with, but she held her position and refused to give information to him.

“Sally” is a rambunctious, saucy young lady who God has taken control of and is changing her inside-out. Her family has noticed and some have taken offense to her faith. But she's one person I'm pretty sure has the inner courage to stand up to whatever comes.

“Francie” is the third young lady. Several months ago, stopped me on the street and asked if she could come to our study. Her mother died in May and she is still in mourning clothing, but God is healing her pain. Two weeks ago, she brought her younger sister, who also seems to be moving rapidly in the right direction. These girls have an aunt who lives across the street from them, who is opposing their coming.
 

• Kazakhstan went from 100 evangelicals in 1990 to 6000 in 2000.
• Between 1990 and 2004, Christians in Cambodia grew from 200 to 400,000.
• In beleaguered Kurdistan, there were no believers in 1992. Today, there are churches in every major city.
• More Muslims have turned to Christ in the last ten years than in the previous 1000 years.
• More than 100,000 members of the Hmong tribe in northern Vietnam have turned to the Lord after listening to Christian radio programs. (No missionaries involved.) This was discovered by accident because none of them were literate enough to write to the station and report their massive response.
• Eight out of ten humans now have access to the entire Bible in their own language.  [From OM News Bytes, Dec. 2005]
   

• Prompt, anoint, and empower many workers for the Harvest.
  Use RMM workers to lead at least one hundred people to Jesus in 2006.
• Provide the finances we need to do the work. (We are undertaking major expansion with no idea of how God will provide the additional finances.)
• Increase our faith as we see Him move in ways we could not have imagined.

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