Greetings, our dear partners in the Lord’s work! We would like to share a brief update about the church planter training program. We conducted interviews, and we are thrilled with the response! Attendance was fantastic, and we are excited to meet talented and passionate people eager to serve.
You are helping us shape the next generation of leaders. Thank you for your partnership! Soon, we will share another update with the names and detailed information about the candidates who successfully passed the selection. We will also share about their families and their prayer needs.
At the moment, we have 11 students, 10 of whom you are supporting! They have a good theological education and have received spiritual training for ministry. Practical training in sewing, electrical work, and welding is already yielding results. Seven sewing machines have been purchased and will be distributed during the first week of January 2026.
We thank you for supporting the founding of new churches in Malawi!
We are reaching out with a request for prayerful support for the upcoming ministry. From December 6 to 14, the Kirnev family missionary team will be carrying out a Christmas evangelistic outreach among the peoples of the Middle East.
Please pray:
that the Word of God would be effective in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia;
that the light of the Gospel would penetrate places where spiritual darkness reigns.
We believe that the united prayer of the Church can change the destinies of nations, and that through this ministry many souls will hear about the birth of the Savior.
During these days, services will be held among children, youth, and adults, accompanied by the distribution of Christmas gifts, Christian literature, and personal evangelism.
The mission route will cover many populated areas—from ancient Tyre, steeped in Old Testament history, to northern Tripoli, where thousands of families are in need of the Lord.
We ask you to pray:
that the name of the Lord would be proclaimed boldly among these peoples;
that the Lord Himself would open hearts to receive the Gospel;
that doors for preaching would be opened wide.
May the name of the Lord be glorified in the Middle East!
We began building the “Timothy Logos” Center in 2021. It is the only center for discipleship and biblical education located at the border of three countries—South Sudan, Uganda, and Congo. South Sudan is home to 64 tribes, but due to constant internal and external conflicts, reaching these tribes is not easy. Believers from South Sudan also work in North Sudan, and for them having an educational center in Moyo, northern Uganda, is an absolute necessity.
In Titus 1:9 it is written that a pastor must hold firmly to the trustworthy word as taught, so that he may be able both to encourage with sound doctrine and to refute those who oppose it.
Work has already begun at the Timothy Logos Center, and many students have shared testimonies of refuting false teachings in their churches, which prompted many churches to restructure their leadership and congregations. These testimonies were truly encouraging, as they did not cause divisions or conflicts but, on the contrary, led to unity. We have already trained pastors from 15 tribes across Congo, Uganda, South Sudan, and Sudan.
We thank you for your continual prayers, support of the ministry in this region, and partnership in proclaiming the Gospel.
Every month, various groups of students, pastors, and women’s ministry leaders gather at the Timothy Logos Center, which the mission built for believers from South Sudan. In September, I and other brothers taught biblical doctrines at the center. I finished teaching the doctrine of the Trinity, which prompted many questions. I was helped by a quote from Charles Spurgeon: “We will never be able to understand how the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit can be three persons and at the same time one God. As for me, I long ago gave up any desire to comprehend this great mystery.”
I would like to express to all of you my sincere gratitude for your tireless prayers and support of the Timothy Logostraining center in northern Uganda, in the city of Moyo. There were no theological seminaries in this region, and we are grateful that we can provide theological education to church leaders here, thereby reducing transportation costs from the West Nile region. This place is strategically located near the borders of Uganda, South Sudan, and Congo. You can send your ministers to study with us, and they will undoubtedly be transformed.
I would like to sincerely thank you for standing with me in prayer for the ministry in the refugee camps of South Sudan in northern Uganda. These camps were established in 2013, right after the war broke out in Juba. Hundreds of thousands of people fled to Uganda, and we thank God that they found refuge in this country.
This Christmas season, filled with joy and excitement, I would like you to remember Ebenezer Secondary School in the Bidi-Bidi camp. We opened it in 2017 to meet the educational needs of South Sudanese refugees. The school has 350 students, most of whom are girls. Many of them walk up to 10 kilometers every day, often on an empty stomach. The school does not have a dormitory, and at home, they receive a meager food ration due to a lack of funds to purchase food.
Another important prayer need is that there are 15 teachers and support staff, and the school has been unable to pay salaries or provide incentives for several months. The school is truly facing difficulties and needs resources and intervention.
We teach God’s word and conduct discipleship for the students every Wednesday. The school excels in academics, with students consistently receiving excellent marks in Uganda’s national exams over the last three years. This year, as you celebrate the Christmas season, I would ask you to remember this school in your prayers and speak to friends about the school. It brings me great joy that the word of God is preached, and the students are learning in the classroom. I would like you to support the school.
On March 12, a team from various churches embarked on a mission trip to Uganda and South Sudan! For over 10 years, around 2,000,000 refugees from Sudan have been living in camps in northern Uganda. Their situation is worsening, as the monthly ration has again been reduced to 3 kg of beans and 6 kg of cornmeal. This is distributed by the camp administration only to the elderly, widows, and the disabled! Therefore, we brought food to share during our meetings.
After loading two trucks with food, the team set off for northern Uganda. Part of the team traveled to South Sudan to help in a hospital and to get acquainted with school projects and the local church in Kajo Keji. Life in the camps is becoming unbearable, which is why some refugees returned to South Sudan after a truce between the warring parties. Others are waiting for the elections in December 2024, fearing that war will again force them to flee their homeland, and they hope to return in early 2025.
Together with Willy Daiker and Vasily Stupin, we conducted training on discipleship, leadership, and counseling!
We thank everyone who donated and prayed for us! In November 2024, we plan to send a construction team to Uganda to complete the discipleship center in the city of Moyo!
