A team from our daughter church in Obura visited our other daughter church in the village of Himarata (a 2-hour walk through the mountains). They were able to participate in the Sunday service there and bless widows and low-income members of the church with food. This is one of our newest churches, and we are praying and planning to build a better church building in the future. Let us know if the Lord puts it on your heart to take part in this need.
The youth from the main church in Yonki are actively laboring in the Lord’s harvest field. Our daughter church in the village of Barokira has built its first church building! (For now it is made of reeds and covered with bamboo, but at last they have their own place to gather on Sundays!) They not only hold youth meetings and D-groups, but also visit surrounding villages with evangelistic trips.
The women’s ministry Promise Land holds Saturday-night prayer meetings every week, and they also pray for you, dear friends, who support our ministry financially. May the Lord reward each of you!
This month we visited three orphanages and held two meetings with orphanage graduates. This is a very valuable time: while in the orphanages we focus on building relationships of trust, working with graduates is very different. With them, we need to walk through many moments of their lives and influence them by our example.
We visit about 20 children twice a week — we play with them, sing songs, give gifts, and do crafts. We also work closely with their mothers. Two children have recently been admitted to us — a boy, Dima, and a girl, Liza. Their medical tests are very poor, and they are undergoing urgent examinations. They are in great need of our help.
One of the graduates paid money for a room without taking any documents and almost ended up on the street. We intervened in time and resolved the situation, preventing scammers from deceiving him. Another graduate opened a small business and almost took out a large loan without thinking about how he would repay it. Many of the graduates attend services and are happy to build friendships with us.
Thank you for your joint labor, for the glory of the Lord!
In the children’s hospice, 18 children with very serious conditions are undergoing treatment. They needed medicine, hygiene supplies, and special nutrition, and we were able to bless them with these in the oncology ward.
We need to complete the construction of a bomb shelter. Our children’s center has taken in a large number of children, and they need a safe place to hide. This is a very difficult task given the severe shortage of resources. Please pray!
I need to travel again because of the many sermons and seminars I am conducting throughout Ukraine. I am very upset because several good families from our church are leaving Ukraine because of the war. They are mature disciples and a very important part of our ministry. And now I need to start the discipleship process all over again — build a new team, look for new disciples, raise new leaders. I feel lonely and tired. Things are very difficult now because of the war.
Please pray for God’s protection over me and my family. My wife is experiencing very strong headaches due to stress. My daughter is expecting a baby, and she is also very worried! Thank you — I know that you are with us!
I know that the devil wants me to give up — wants to intimidate me and stop me because of the lack of believers and the lack of resources. The devil wants me to feel alone in a dry desert with empty pockets. But I will not give up! I will continue my mission. And I need your shoulder, your prayers, and your support in this extremely discouraging season.
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.
For 15 years now, we have been laboring in the fields of evangelism in Lebanon. Throughout these years, we have witnessed how God changes people’s hearts and renews them by the Holy Spirit.
Because of the difficult economic and military situation in Lebanon, we see that people are especially open to the Gospel. With God’s help, we continue our ministry among Syrian refugees, of whom there are about two million in Lebanon. Thousands of them continue to live in extremely harsh economic conditions. We strive to support them not only spiritually but also materially.
We pay special attention to children, because we understand that children are the future. From an early age they encounter cruelty and a lack of love. Our goal is to show them the true love that we receive through Jesus.
This summer we held camps for Alawite and Sunni children, telling them stories, teaching them Bible verses, and of course, serving them delicious lunches.
We believe that this small seed will, in its time, bear great fruit. May the Lord help us in this, and may His holy name be glorified! Now is the time of grace and the day of salvation!
The passage from 2 Timothy 2:1–2 has become something our church in Vietnam not only reads and understands, but also puts into practice. We have a team in which each person carries responsibility for the ministries with which the Lord has blessed us. We serve tribes and peoples, and we also do not forget the Russian-speaking people from the post-Soviet region. People in our church have become passionate about preaching the Gospel.
Artem and Ilena lead an active life outside the church; they recently had a baby girl named Dominika, and yet Ilena agreed to go and minister to the children of the Raglai tribe. She brought art prints, various craft supplies for the children, active games, and videos.
The day of the visit arrived. It was clear that she had completely devoted herself to it. Vladimir and Olya were invited to visit poor families. They went, distributed food to those in need, and now are waiting for the next opportunity to go again and help the poor. Sister Natasha also went for the first time to the “CITY IN THE CEMETERY.” People who visit us there are shaken by what they see and stop complaining about certain inconveniences in their own lives.
Why am I writing about this? Because it is connected to the truth of God’s Word. We ourselves become filled with blessings when we pass on the Lord’s instructions to others.
