They produced a lot of problems for Christians. Our next interview was with Reshat and Rosa Fazliamedov. Reshat accepted Christ a few years ago at the institute in Kazan while studying to be a radio engineer. He now co-pastors a church. Reshat and Rosa gathered a group of Tatar converts to Christianity for a home group meeting about a year ago.
Churches work only with Russian speaking people because of the lack of literature in Tatar.
It is therefore difficult to work with Tatar speaking people. Their Tatar home group was scattered, however, due to strife between local churches of rival denominations. Reshat explained that the deep resentment against the Russians, coupled with the fact that Ivan the Terrible forced many Tatars to be baptized, works against evangelicals attempting to reach Tatars with the gospel. Translators must be acquainted with both the language and the culture of the Tatars. When Reshat first attended church, he had great difficulty in accepting the fact that Mohammed was a false prophet and that Jesus Christ is God.