Grace and peace be multiplied to you. I hasten to inform you about a great need that I recently encountered while visiting the House of Mercy “Bethesda”. The situation there requires urgent assistance, which social structures are ready to provide. From our side, we need to show these structures suitable living spaces. Currently, 25 people reside in the house, out of which 15 are disabled (missing limbs or paralyzed).
Recently, a social commission visited the House of Mercy and concluded that the house is suitable for accommodating 10 people. The question arises: what should we do with the remaining 15 people? These individuals have nowhere else to go; we found them all living on the streets.
The commission has given us two months to prepare additional accommodations that meet living standards for these individuals. Therefore, with all our heart and soul, we appeal to you for help in renovating these additional spaces. We need approximately $2000 for building materials and room equipment. Previously, we collected funds from churches and used them to install new electrical wiring and fire alarms.
The House of Mercy regularly hosts Bible lessons, where the Word of God is sown, people turn to Jesus, and find answers. Praise God, the community is growing, and people from the village where the house is located have been attending gatherings continuously for the past 7 years.
Dear friends, brothers, and sisters, we continually thank the Lord Jesus Christ for your labor of love in the work of evangelism and mercy at New Fields, spreading the Gospel everywhere.
We have been ministering in a village located 50 km from our home, where we baptized 8 brothers and sisters from a Raglai family. In this family, we built a well and pray that through them, a revival will start in this area and the Word of God will spread. During our next visit, we asked how else we could help their village, and they said they needed help buying a piglet. The Lord sent a brother from Bashkiria to visit us, and he bought the piglet for them. Their joy knew no bounds. A few days later, they invited us to a celebration in a neighboring village, where about 50 of their relatives and friends heard the Word of God and prayed with us!
This week, we brought the Jesus film to the village. Neighbors came again and watched it with great interest. This year, we also celebrated Easter. We have the great advantage of celebrating it twice, both in the Western and Eastern styles. This year, about 50 people attended the celebration. We rented a café, prepared treats, and celebrated for 7 hours straight. The Lord gives us immense joy, and at the end of the celebration, we had another joyous event: a baptism. Praise God, Aline was baptized, and we pray for her husband Artem, who is on his way to God. Dear friends, brothers, and sisters, we wholeheartedly thank you for your prayers and donations. Your labor is not in vain before the Lord. We are very glad to serve alongside you, fulfilling God’s will. Please continue to pray for a revival in Vietnam and for our stay in this country!
Sisters, grace and peace to you and may you be multiplied! I am eager to inform you about the ministry that we are carrying out in the name of Jesus Christ among the Rāglai tribe. We have been working there for over 3 years, and God immediately urged us to pray for this family, where 7 people have already been baptized, to become a family of evangelists. Not all of them can read, and not all of them understand the Vietnamese language, but in this family, we have a friend (the guide) named Chung, the husband of our sister in Christ, Hien. He convinced almost everyone in the family to be baptized. We conduct Bible lessons in this family, and at our last meeting, Chung announced his desire to receive holy water baptism. If the Lord permits, we will go to them next Saturday and perform the baptism.
Near their home (200 meters away), we run a children’s playground. We play active games with the children, read the Word, pray, bring Bible coloring pages, treats, and clothes. And at our last meeting, Chung joined us; as a guide, he came to this family and told them about us, about how we pray, and thus brought these children and the family closer to us, near the playground we run. In Chung’s family, we dug a well with you, cleaned it up, installed a pump, and now they can have water in their home. Soon, we will buy and install a reservoir. We thank you, precious ones, for your indifference and the loving work of Christ in the ministry of God’s Gospel. Together, we can do a lot. From our hearts and souls, we thank you for your prayers and support that you provide to us. May the Lord reward you 100-fold!
Today, heavy rain is falling again, and we are about to embark on a short-term mission to Laos, where we work, spreading the Word of God through evangelization, printed materials, and providing food. This time, we have decided to travel by mopeds (1200 kilometers round trip, 745 miles) as renting a car proved to be very expensive – $700.
After Laos, we will go to celebrate the Communion with our brothers and sisters from the Raglai tribe. There, we will also organize a children’s playground with active games, coloring of biblical stories, singing, and prayer. Praise God, the Lord reigns, and His Word is spreading. Our team of evangelists is growing, and the ministry is expanding.
Recently, we visited an orphanage (120 kilometers from our home, 75 miles) on mopeds. Thank God there was no rain, and we returned dry. However, riding such distances on a moped is tough. The back hurts, it’s drafty, but the Lord provides strength. Praise God.
We realized that we need a minibus for our ministry. I ask you, dear brothers and sisters, to support us in prayer so that the Lord blesses our endeavor. We already have one-third of the necessary funds. The cost of a TOYOTA INNOVA car is around $10,000.
We are also considering the opportunity to serve in neighboring countries such as Laos, Cambodia, and the Kingdom of Thailand, bordering Vietnam. We are confident that the Lord is glorified through our needs and prayers.
Sincerely thanking you, beloved, for your support and cooperation in the Lord’s work on New Grounds.
We returned from a trip to Laos, where we sowed the Word of God and met with brothers and sisters in Christ. We prepared for the trip for two months and constantly faced trials. Initially, there was one team, but participants changed, and in the end, those who wanted to go didn’t, but other brothers and sisters did: “Many plans are in a person’s heart, but only what the Lord determines will happen” (Proverbs 19:21).
We bought food and gifts on the border, printed calendars and brochures, and crossed the pedestrian border with this baggage. Laos is the poorest country with a Communist-type People’s Revolutionary Party. In some districts, celebrating Christmas is prohibited this year. For this reason, we secretly put on masks in certain churches. The first church greeted us with a song, but we didn’t see joy because life in Laos is poor, people are exhausted (skinny), and it was very difficult to share His Word, knowing that they were all hungry. Giving gifts and food while looking at their faces, we rarely saw joy. In another area, it was a bit easier. The house of prayer was festively decorated, and it was clear that the brothers and sisters were preparing to celebrate. We could bless a particularly needy part of the church with you. We then arrived in one village where they had just started holding meetings, blessed them, and shared His Word. Finally, the Lord blessed us with a church full of joy and celebration. We shared our testimony, sang, prayed, and distributed food packages and gifts to those in need. Thank you for supporting us in this ministry!
