What can a line in the dirt do to separate people who share a common language? Plenty, if the line is an international border! Yesterday, we prayed for the Kazaks in China, where the Chinese government has successfully kept the gospel from the Kazaks.

Across the border in Kazakstan, however, things are far different. The cell-church there is growing rapidly. Translation of Christian hymns has progressed and there are now 100 of them in the Kazak language. In one province of Kazakstan, 50,000 Kazak Storybook Bibles were distributed in the public schools for use as reading textbooks.

In addition, believers are being trained at the Great Commission Bible School in Almaty, the capital of Kazakstan, and Christian workers are teaching and doing medical work in various parts of the nation.

"The Lord has made His salvation known and revealed His righteousness to the nations.... Shout for joy to the Lord, all the earth" (Psalm 98:2,4). The psalmist was deeply aware that God's redemptive acts on Israel's behalf were also played out on a stage before the nations. Israel, called to be a kingdom of priests, had the privilege and responsibility of interpreting these acts to the surrounding peoples. We who have come to know Jesus as Savior and Lord have the same privilege and responsibility, made greater by our knowledge of the completeness of Christ's redemptive work on the cross. What a delight to declare His acts to the nations so that they may respond with joy to their Master!

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