Peace to you! On May 30th, my wife Eugenia and I celebrated our twentieth anniversary of marriage. Our son Arseny received a high school diploma with in-depth study of the English language. He ranked first in his class in his class.
We moved from our ministry apartment to our own and now need to make repairs there first.
In our church, “Father’s house”, we ordained Samuel to pastoral ministry, he is from Brazil and will work among the Portuguese-speaking population.
The foundation work for planting Churches in Khimki has begun – Please pray for the group of graduates of the Missionary School “Saved for Ministry”. At the end of June, they held a service for students in the city park. And the rest of the day they served to everybody with children playgrounds, sports activities, family counseling, masterclasses, and were building relationships with them.
In Maykop, I conducted a training on planting of new churches. One student asked me to meet with a young man, who knows his daughter, who went to study in to Moscow. After meeting him with him, we began to read the Scripture on the Internet together, since I had to go on a three-week trip. During my trip, he repented and believed, and on June 11th Eugene was baptized.
Please pray for the planting of churches in Rzhev, Krasnodar, Kaliningrad, Aleppo (Syria), Riga(Latvia). Pray for the meeting of the founders of the churches of the Father’s House movement in August 2019
I’m grateful for the prayers and participation in my ministry.
We held an evangelist service at the end May 2019. Ten Thousand of people gathered to listen to Good News. The group that arrived to serve in Tanzania consisted of 27 people. Among them were evangelical pastors, counselors, photographers, and cooks who were especially concerned about the safety of our food.
In the morning they held discipleship seminars. In the evenings, we called for people to follow the Lord. The number of people who responded ranged from a few hundred to a thousand and a half. When interacting with people, we saw that a certain part of society is involved in occultism. People carry the imprint of occult religions in which they and their ancestors were immersed. During prayer, when the name of Jesus Christ was proclaimed, many people fell to the ground unconscious; these were the first signs of being possessed by demons. Many brothers picked up these people and carried them out of the field so that the crowd whould not step on them. Among the posessed were very young people who needed to be freed from demonic forces.
During the summer this year, we are to hold ministries for the first time in Damascus. The doors opened for the US. In Syria, they are waiting for us, and we have the boldness of the Lord to go and preach the Gospel. We ask the people of God to support us by prayer in this spiritual struggle.
Please pray for us to be able to pay for our travel expenses on time. May our Lord be exalted!
We are very grateful for your prayers and support for our ministry in Thailand, a country where less than 1% are Christians. Four years ago, God gave us an opportunity to build a church out of bamboo and all these years this church building was a big blessing for an evening school, Bible study groups, camps and Sunday services. As almost four years passed, we see a big need to change our bamboo to a metal construction because it’s not that strong and safe anymore. For now, we put some supporting bamboo to help it to stay stable till the nearest school break, which is at the end of September.
We are sincerely asking you to take part in this project whether by coming and helping in building or by giving financially. The material would cost around $10,000 without labor, to hire workers would add $3,000-$5,000. The good news is that at this moment we have around $4,000 and we trust that God will provide the rest as He did it before. We also need skillful men, who can share the knowledge in making this construction strong and durable for many years. If you have an opportunity to participate in this project please let us know, we will appreciate any help.
Let’s continue to make God known till the end of the Earth
Then were there brought unto him little children, that He should put his hands on them, and pray: and the disciples rebuked them. But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven. ~Matthew 19:13-14
Greetings to you brothers and sisters. Thank you for your support and prayers for our ministry here in Vietnam. Also, we thank the Lord for providing an opportunity for us to participate in a local one-week day-camp here held by the leprosy church, Rock Mountain Evangelical Church. There were about 40 children, ages 3-12, plus a few teens. The theme of the camp was “The Word of God,” how it is a living; powerful; righteous; and always fulfilled word and is preserved by God till today.
We took part in helping with some of the games and couple of lessons with the aid of a Vietnamese interpreter. We learned that from all children attending there was only one child from a complete family, all other children come from a divorced family and at a young age many already had to go to work. Also, the camp was empty but parents of many of the children were uneager to allow them to come to the Christian camp, so church members had to go to their homes and bring the children to camp every morning.
On one of the days, came a man and started yelling at one of the counselors. Turned out he was the father of one of our teen campers and he was against her coming to the camp and to church altogether. Further we found out that he used to be ill with leprosy and attended this same church because the church helped him and his family a lot, but after everything got better, he left the church and turned against God. When this incident happened during camp, we got together with others inside the church and prayed for the man, and praise the Lord, he left and his daughter stayed till the end of camp.
After the camp, we talked with the pastor of the church if we may use the site of their church to make kids’ camp in the future, since they have a big park-like area. It surprised us when the pastor said no, explaining that the government controls closely all activities of all the churches here especially when involving children and that in the beginning of each year they submit to the government a plan of all their camps, programs, events, etc. in advance for the year. They are not allowed to do anything in addition to the plan or they will be fined or worse, the church would be closed. Therefore, please join us in prayer for not only the churches to have freedom of spreading the gospel, but so there would be no restriction for children to come to Jesus. May our Lord bless you all!
Grace to you dear brothers and sisters in Christ! Thank you for being with us in this part of the World through your prayers and support!
After an active school year, we were thinking if there are enough resources for us to make a summer camp. I was praying: God, please send us a helper for the camp who can speak English and has a heart for You and children. But it seemed impossible, the camp is three weeks away and who would travel that far? Relying on God’s power we started our preparation. One week passed, and another started – nothing happened. It still seemed impossible. Impossible, but not for our God! Less than two weeks before the camp we met our new friend who is here in Thailand (in a small town next to us) to teach English, and he was very glad to help us with the camp. As he said it was a big blessing and encouragement for him, and it was defiantly God’s answer to our prayers! God has His own ways and He is never late! It was nice to work in the team with a mature Christian and to experience the power of God’s family.
That was only the beginning of the blessing because God already prepared our teens and gave them the desire to help in the camp. Seven of our teens, as young as 10, were ready to prepare activities for the camp and think how in every activity the children would learn the truth about God. More than 30 children came to the camp. They had a chance to learn how God speaks to us today and how can we talk to Him. Children would also memorize Bible verses, learn new songs, do craft have sport and fun activities. It was amazing to see our children teaching other children and sharing the Gospel with them! Our prayer and desire are to continue the camp ministry in other villages, which will help our children to grow in faith.
One of the ways to show God’s love to non-Christian families is to visit our children at home and especially on their birthdays. Their families are so grateful, you would even see tears on the faces of some parents.
Thank God for the transportation that He provided for our family. Now we have more opportunities for us to visit the children, go to church, do groceries and travel around the village.
Thank God for our trip to visit family and the church! It was a big encouragement and many lessons were learned. How great is to be around God’s people.
We are blessed and also challenged to have little ones, who come to our church. God gave us a desire and resources to make a Sunday school group for 2-4-years old, beside the one that we have 6-9 years old, where around 30 children come.
Thank God for every one of you, your prayers and support, May God richly bless you and helps you to serve Him with joy!
Please pray for:
Our teens in making the right decisions especially as they are growing older.
Some of our children who left to work or study in big cities, that they would find a church and have a desire to continue growing in Christ.
Wisdom for us as the leaders to raise future leaders for Christ.
The new school year and all the children who will come to learn about God
In 1964, Malawi gained its independence from the UK! About 17 million people live in this small African country in the southeast. Malawi is one of the poorest countries in the world. There is a high percentage of HIV infected people. One of the leaders of the local union churches, Willard Muvalo, told us until recently everyone in the hospital was using the same needle to take blood. The disease spread and was ignored for a certain time and forbidden to talk about. Infant mortality is also high.
The church in Malawi, despite the economic difficulties, is growing. Over the past 30 years, the union “Zambezi Evangelical Church” has grown 10 times. Starting with several dozen churches, they now are up to several hundred churches. Such growth was contributed to the training pastors received when they could not complete a theological school and didn’t know how to plant a church! They asked us to continue training for the pastors who want to plant new churches.
We invited over 200 people to the pastoral conference. We paid for the food and the arrival of some of the ministers. Pastors from the most remote corners of Malawi arrived first with their wives in Blantyre. The practical classes were well received. Talking to their wives from heart to heart, taking her hands and looking into her eyes, they never tried that before. And here we had to step over some cultural barriers. We spoke openly about many things that prevent us from serving God. After the service, they sincerely asked us to continue such training!
