(Altantuya is the latest missionary from Mongolia that we are helping support on the mission ship Doulos. You can help Altantuya by donating funds for her support. Please click here to donate online or, make your check out to COTR and memo it "Altantuya". Every penny will go to her. Thank you!)


Dear Friends/ Praying Friends,

Posted October 22, 2007

Thank you so much for your prayers! God has really blessed me.

I arrived in Hong Kong on 22nd August, while the Doulos was still in S. Korea. During the next weeks God prepared me for joining the international community on the Doulos. I spent time at Crossroads International. This group of people have prayed for my family for last 2 years. My brother also works with them. I was so excited to see how people of diffrent countres can work together if they all love God.
 
Mongolia is a land locked country. I coudn't wait for my first voyage. We sailed for 5 days from Hong Kong to Kota Kinabalu. God really touched my heart an this calm voyage. The ocean was amazing for me and God gave me such peace. I had no fear of being sea-sick!
 
During there two months I have really learnt that we can't measure God's love . In Mongolia we sing songs about God's love- it is wider than any ocean as high as the heavens, as deep as the ocean bed.
Now I have at last seen the ocean.......       how great is my God!
 
I am now in Kota Kinabalu, East Malaysia. This is an amazing country. Yesterday I went to a local church I enjoyed worshipping God with so many young local people. There is many young people want to change them live. We prayed together.
 
My prayer Reguests:

1. Please pray that God will teach me many things during my 2 years on board.
2. Please pray that my full financial support will be raised.
3. I have 3 brothers and 1 sister in Mongolia, 1 brother in Hong Kong / My parents both passed away./ Please pray that God will provide for all their needs. Pray that they will start walking closely with Jesus as well.
 
I will send a photo separatelly, as we cannot send or seceive large documents. Thank you so much for making in  possible for me to be here.
I value
Blessings!

Tuya


Altantuya Ganbaatar’s Testimony

 
Posted August 21, 2007 - Photo Gallery
 
Altantuya_Ganbaatar.jpgI was born in 1980 as the first daughter and forth child of a family with six children. I heard the Gospel about Jesus Christ in 1996 when I was 16, and I began to go to church. Church to me seemed a place to make many friends and have fun. But this didn't continue for long. Soon I left church again.
 
I began to feel more and more lonely and started asking myself, “Who am I really? Why are people born and why do they die? Why do people love each other?”
 
Trying to find answers to these questions, I started reading a lot of books on psychology. I searched for joy and happiness from the world and I wanted to make lots of friends and be with people. So I started hanging out with non-Christian kids at school. We did all kinds of things and participated in wrongful activities.
 
Every day, I was more drawn to doing wrong things. I started telling lies to my parents so I could be with my friends and roam about with them. It came to the point where it didn't matter to me where I was and what I did, if only I could be with my friends. Sometimes we would tease, bully and even beat up other girls. I even spent nights in apartment block entrances.
 
But although I had a lot of friends around me, my heart was still lonely. My heart was longing for someone, and I believed there had to be a supernatural power out there. Also, I was in fear of death. Every morning I got up full of fear, wondering whether I would die today? What if the earth split open right in front of me and swallowed me up? I imagined that while at home, or in school, I might be crushed to death under the buildings suddenly caving in.
 
Every day the fear in my heart grew. I told someone about this, and she gave me a Buddhist mantra. I would recite it 21 times a day and deceive myself that on that day death would be far from me. But still the fear of death was in my heart.
 
Then in 2002, God called me back to church through my brother. My brother suggested that I go to a cell group meeting. So that evening I went to the meeting. I was embarrassed to meet with old acquaintances there. When I heard these people talking about God, and worshiping Him, and saw them enjoying themselves in His love, I yearned for the love of God from the bottom of my heart, though I was so far from Him.

That evening I understood God’s love and received Him. When I realized that God accepts me just as I am, that He loves me with a limitless love, that He has been with me every moment of my past, just waiting for me to come to Him, I cried a lot. I finally understood that no matter what I do, if I don’t have God, I will always be lonely. I realized in just how much darkness I had lived.
 
I wanted to ask forgiveness of the people I had offended, but my heart told me this was impossible. But through the cell leader God told me that He forgave all of my sins - past, present and future. When I heard these words I cried even more. I asked myself again and again “Is it really possible that God would forgive me when I didn't do anything to deserve this? Did He really pay the penalty for my horrible sins, so I can go free?”
 
I came to understand that forgiveness and grace are possible with God. That evening, after the cell meeting ended, I took my brother’s Bible and searched for a Word just for me. I found it, a verse that said, “Your life and your death are in My Hand.” Then I knew that all my life from the time I was born, and even my death is in God’s hand. I cried, because I knew I had found what I had been looking for. It was God. He healed me of all my fear.
 
Now I’m not afraid of anything, and I am free of the fear of death that used to torment me daily. I believe that Jesus Christ died on that terrible cross for me and atoned for my sin, and I have accepted Him as my personal Savior. Through my faith in Him my life has become meaningful, and I know that my purpose in this life is to live for Him.

Since that time, I have always gone to church and I live holding fast to God. God made my dark life bright. There is nothing more valuable to me than He is. I’m so happy when I serve Him. I have come to desire to be with the people of God in His House forever and to help replace the fear and the darkness that is in many people’s hearts with the love of my God. Now I like to tell people where my joy, delight and my hope come from.

In 2003, God spoke to me through my leader, saying that He wants me to serve mothers and lead them after Jesus Christ. Immediately, I received this calling in my heart and soon started my own cell group with 3 people. As I started seeing God’s plan for their lives, I began to bring mothers to God. God opened my spiritual eyes more and showed me that there are so many women who don’t know God yet.

So I began to dream and pray every day about bringing the Gospel to women who had not yet received God’s love, telling them about Jesus Christ and ministering to them through the love with which God loved me. I used every opportunity God gave me and took steps of courage. Now I have 16 daughters in the faith.

When God gave our church a huge vision, He showed me that He has called me to the nations (our church’s vision is: “We will serve the nations and make disciples of Christ.”). This vision has brought me to see God’s plan and purpose for my whole life. God has graciously blessed me and my family and has given me opportunities to serve in the homes of people from many different countries. I have worked for Indian, Canadian, Chinese, British, New Zealand, Australian and Egyptian people. Even now God is changing my character and growing my faith that I may serve both Mongolians and people of other nations, people of widely differing world views, beliefs and characters. I believe that my present occupation is my first step towards serving the nations.

I want to tell people that Jesus Christ is the Redeemer of mankind, that He desires to bring them from darkness to living in the light. Also I want to tell them that Jesus is our Savior. He paid the penalty for our sin. God loves you so very much. Walk with God every step of your life and live in His grace. ---
 
You can help Altantuya by donating funds for her support. Please make your check out to COTR and memo it "Altantuya". Every penny will go to her. Thank you!