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Kazakhstan

Kazaks are nominal Muslims, but Islam permeates their identity, heritage, and culture. Kazaks are also animistic with prayer altars and spirit trees in high places. Long ago the gospel came to Kazakhstan along the Silk Road. There are many redemptive analogies in Kazakh culture that point to Christ, but Kazaks don’t recognize them today. The SEND team is seeking to introduce Kazaks to the Redeemer. 

Kazakhstan has 15.5 million people, 139 nationalities, and only 15,000 known evangelicals among the 9 million Kazaks. Kazakhstan is the only Central Asian country open to the gospel...

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Current Opportunities

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  • CE Specialist

    Christian Education Specialists to assist Sunday school ministries  ...

  • Youth Ministry

    Working with national youth (middle school through college and young career) to evangelize and disciple...

  • Theological Education

    Qualified people to teach theology at seminaries on foreign fields...

  • TESOL Teachers

    Teaching English in both formal and informal settings in order to evangelize...

  • Administrative Assistant

    Administrative office help for various field offices...

  • Bible Study Leader

    Men and women to lead small, informal, evangelistic Bible studies in order to plant churches...

Featured Staff

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  • Howard and Joyce Botterill

    Howard and Joyce Botterill

    We retired in 1999 from Howard being a computer programmer with IBM and Joyce being a mathematics teacher in the public school.  We then served ...

  • Vonnie Howard

    Vonnie Howard

    I arrived in Kazakhstan in the fall of 2008, after living and working for almost nine years in Far East Russia. Knowing Russian was a great asset and ...

  • Raymond and Lisa Thiessen

    Raymond and Lisa Thiessen

    Lisa and I are new to long term missions. We have both had opportunities to go on short term mission trips before we were married. We both enjoy working ...

Prayer Requests

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  • Effective relationship building through the English Program....

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  • Wisdom so as to be able to provide effective leadership to the team....

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  • Please pray that we could learn the language and culture quickly and accurately so that we might better serve the Lord and His church in Kazakhstan....

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  • Please pray that our marriage would stand up under the constant strains of life and ministry....

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