Marina Tapcova is supported by SGA’s Phoebe ministries and works in partnership with Child Evangelism Fellowship. She has a real heart for bringing the Gospel to children and their families.
Currently based in Khakassia, Siberia, Marina is a graduate of Balti Mission School in Moldova. Her work takes her to over 52 different localities, where she has communicated with more than 600 children.
She recently travelled to Evenkia beyond the Arctic Circle, with a group of missionary pastors. Their mission began with great excitement as they flew in by helicopter. The team was warmly received, fortunately not by bears or bounty hunters, but by the local communities. In that locality the internet is a rarity. Water is carried from the lakes and the outside toilet is on the street. Dinner is fish caught by the locals. No luxury home comforts here!
In Chirinda, a village, surrounded by forest and accessible only by tractor, the work commenced. Immediately Marina found the children and struck up a friendship with them. After playing games and other activities, she shared the parable of “the lost sheep”.
Under her supervision, the children made bracelets of various colours. Marina calls this the “Gospel without words”. Every colour stands for a different aspect of the Gospel, and the children were able to understand each detail.
Pray that these little ones will remember the Gospel story and that the Lord will open their hearts, even in this place at “the ends of the earth”.