Part of the OM team in the Caucasus, Aslan* has a heart for disciple multiplication — for making disciples who make their own disciples. As a local pastor, he trains those in his fellowship, but he doesn’t stop there. In 2025, he and some of his disciples started a discipleship school, where they train others to share their faith, make disciples and start healthy house churches throughout the Greater Caucasus. Many of their disciples come from Muslim communities.
Be my witnesses
One of Aslan’s students was Samira*, a young doctor who recently came to faith. Before meeting Jesus, she was deeply involved in spiritualism. With an inquisitive mind, she had a passion for philosophy and all things mystical. She would start studying one thing, such as tarot, and then be drawn to another. When she decided to follow Jesus, though, she took all the occult items that she had been using and burnt them. She confessed that Jesus answered all her questions, and she no longer needed to consult spirits; everything else was empty.
At the discipleship school, Samira learnt how to be a witness for Jesus. But after one class, she went to Aslan and said, “This is too hard for me. I am afraid. I cannot share Jesus with other people. Maybe I need more time and will start doing this later.”
Concerned, Aslan wondered if his teaching was pushing the students to do something they were not ready to do, but he still encouraged her not to stop but to continue in her faith. He firmly believed that sharing the good news is not a task reserved for a specialised few — but for every Jesus follower.
The next day, when Samira came to class, she radiated joy. “Today I preached in front of nine of my colleagues, eight doctors and one professor,” she said. “Some of them even asked for my telephone number because they want me to give them a New Testament that they can read for themselves!” The following day, she shared with three ladies, and one of them decided to go to church with her.
Samira is interested in joining the Russian Orthodox church in her community. May she continue to grow in this space and bring the hope of Jesus to those who may never have heard it, both in her Muslim community and the Orthodox church.
No time to serve?
Javed,* one of Aslan’s disciples, had been planning to spend the summer serving God and travelling around the Caucasus to share Jesus with those who had never heard of Him. But his father had other plans. He asked Javed to return to their village and clean up the yard for him. Rather than serving God, he would be spending all his time serving his father.
Javed did not know what to do, but then God told him: I will use you there. Don’t worry. So, he went home to his family.
The first evening there, he met with his cousins and told them about Jesus. Although Javed, his parents and his brother are followers of Jesus, most of his relatives and the people in the village are Muslims. Javed discovered that his cousins had already been invited to read the New Testament by Elvin*, a man from the village whom Javed had given a New Testament about a year earlier. Elvin had started reading the New Testament and decided to become a follower of Jesus. Javed was amazed to hear this.
Cleaning up his family’s property turned out to be a lot of hard work, cutting trees and moving old plants. Javed thought that if he worked hard, he might be able to finish the work in two weeks and gain time to serve the Lord elsewhere, but it actually took him a month.
So, he spent his time in the village like this: during the days Javed worked in the yard, fulfilling the demands of his father, and every other evening he met with his cousins and Elvin to study the Bible together. After the summer, Javed returned to the city where he lives, but he continues to meet online with his cousins and Elvin to study God’s Word.
Pray for Javed’s cousins to believe. Pray for Samira to grow in her faith and continue to share. May these disciple makers share their faith with boldness, so that many people may come out of darkness into the light!
*name changed
