Dec 30, 2018 | Kulpin Ministries, Vietnam
For the past year, we have been working in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. Just recently two teams visited us, and we went to kindergartens and boarding schools together! We had the question of where to place our missionary guests. My wife Irina and I lived in an apartment which was 45 square meters (484 sf) We had everything we needed. The inconvenience was that at 11 PM in the doors to our house get locked and open up only at 6 in the morning.
Recently, we and a team of missionaries returned from the ministry at 0:15 am, and we didn’t know where to spend the night. We were able to find a place, but we were also in situations when it was necessary to leave before 6 am and again we had an inconvenience.
The owners of the apartment are watching us, they see all the guests coming and going. We cannot organize a home group or sing a hymn together. The Lord himself helped us to and gave us a large, comfortable house. Rent is only $150 more expensive, but it does open up other opportunities for our ministry. It can host the church, the school and visitors but also it is our base of operation.
Thank you for your prayers and heartily ask you to support us so that the “Father’s House” will be open for ministry!
Ministry in Vietnam – Alexander & Irina
Dec 17, 2018 | Kulpin Ministries, Vietnam
One of our goals is it to reach out to children from ethnic minorities. Vietnam has 54 tribes and nationalities. Some of them are so far away from infrastructure and civilization that they have no schools, and this leaves them undereducated.
In some areas of the mountains, people are living very primitive because electricity doesn’t exist there.
This is the reason for the boarding school that has been founded by the government. We were able to establish a friendly relationship with them and now are spreading Gods Word in those schools. Recently we visited with a group of missionaries and we were preaching, testifying and glorified Jesus with singing. We also played games and blessed them with toys that they won’t forget and brought them bread, something they also needed.
This boarding school is around 25 miles away from us has 40 girls and 25 boys, we have a friendly relationship with them and when we visit, we use mopeds to get there.
After their graduation, we as a church, want to stay in contact with them and participate in their lives further. In order to do this, we are renting a house for our ministry work and have also a place for guests to stay. We believe by helping these young children practically, we are able to point out the truth of Jesus Christ to them.
May the Lord help us. Please support us in prayers, together we can do more.
Ministry in Vietnam – Aleksander Kulpin
Nov 12, 2018 | Kulpin Ministries, Vietnam
“City in the cemetery” – displays the realities of a part of the population in Vietnam. These people have no choice but to settle between graves. People built their houses there, and in some cases, the graves are inside the homes itself. But here they have peace. The children play quietly, sleep, people who love to sing – sing. We know five families there, so we packed food for them and went there. When we bless the needy, we saw that there are no obstacles to preaching!
We prayed and planned to hold an evangelistic service and a playground in this place. After we arrived, we began to play games with children, set up biblical sketches, stories, and sang hymns. Parents began to approach. Some were listening carefully.
One young lady, her name is Nguyen, turned to the Lord in a prayer and repented. We exchanged our contact information with her. Her father has constant demands, her husband is an alcoholic. Her mother recently died, for the family, this is another reason to drink. She is tired.
We explained to her how the Lord saved her, and she prayed to receive Christ, hallelujah. The children were blessed, and we gave them sweets and souvenirs. We also distributed the Gospel in the Vietnamese language. Thank God.
With all my heart and soul, we thank you for your prayers and financial assistance.
Ministry in Vietnam – Alexander & Irina Kulpin
Oct 19, 2018 | Featured, Kulpin Ministries, Vietnam
We wish you peace our brothers and sisters. We continue to sow of the Word of God, in teens and to children with disabilities. We are talking about Christ to the poor, tourists, and also, with the help of an interpreter, to the locals.
We organize Sunday meetings in a cafe where my wife Irina is working. We started meeting there around 2 months ago. On August 12, we invited several people to join us in prayer and people came: Pavel, who enjoys yoga, lives here with his wife and son. He is a former drug addict and also Vera, she is an alcoholic after her husband died, she started to numb her pain with drinking. We also had five other people present, our brother Shawn, our interpreter, with his brother and his family, as well as another minister from a local Protestant church. We prayed and praised God and talked about our Lord Jesus Christ.
We always have different people come to join us in our Sunday meetings. Sometimes we have up to 10 people come and join us. Sometimes it is only my wife and I who are present on Sundays. Yesterday, it was only us two there, we began to sing “Amazing Grace” and when we finished singing, we were nine people. Thank God for His mercy.
Every 3 months we need to travel to a neighboring country to extend the Vietnamese visa. This costs us at least $200 but we could just get a visa for a year which costs around $700. We also need help in paying for a medical examination in order to obtain a driver’s license, it costs $200. If you could help us with prayers and financially, we would be very grateful. Thank you for participating in our ministry!
Ministry in Vietnam – Alexander Kulpin
Jul 19, 2018 | Kulpin Ministries, Vietnam
Thank you before the Lord for your prayers, your sacrifices, and your open hearts.
We live in Nha Trang that has a population of 500,000 people. My wife and I are now meeting with a mother, (Huanhan, 41) and her daughter (Hihua, 17) on a daily base. It is 35°C/95°F, we are sitting on a bench and it is clear that they have nowhere to go.
My wife Irina started to serve them food. The next time met with them at the market and saw their broken shoes so we bought them a new pair. One month passed and we still kept praying for them. We continued meeting and blessing them and finally asked if we could visit. With our brother Shawn, an interpreter, we came to their family and told that God Himself had brought us to their house.
They live in a village 160 miles away from Nyachang. Their life is very hard, it is hard to survive. When the Hihua was 3 years old, her father left the home, and their life became even more difficult. Hihua did not visit a school, because there was no possibility.
She suffers from pain in her liver, but due to the fact that they don’t have money, she can’t seek treatment. After a while, she began to smile a little during meetings with us. Today, on behalf of Christ, we once again blessed them with items for living, and most importantly we gave them a bible.
Thank you for your compassionate heart. May God bless you.
Serving in Vietnam – Alexander & Irina
Jun 7, 2018 | Featured, Kulpin Ministries, Vietnam
We are worried that because of our low budget, we are missing the main thing –to tell people about Christ. We urgently need a driver’s license, which costs $150. We are also looking for opportunities to buy health insurance. We are here on a tourist visa that’s why we have to leave the country every 3 months, the annual visa costs $250 per person.
I was given an opportunity to share Gods word with people suffering from leper. But, unfortunately, it did not happen due to lack of finances. We can always participate in helping the needy with daily bread, like in orphanages, but this requires a monthly budget of at least $150 – $200. Dear brothers and sisters, we write about the experience and we understand that the opportunities for serving Him in Vietnam will grow day by day, but without your support, we will miss one opportunity after another.
From May 13 – 30, we are going to visit the Thai prisons. We want to bless the prisoners who are eager to meet with Russian speakers. We currently have four contacts, but we plan to expand to 15 people. We will work with women who are in rehabilitation after prostitution.
We would also like to help refugees from Pakistan. There is a fire for God’s love, but there is not enough firewood. Please support us with prayers with all our worries. Thank you very much for your participation in our work.
Ministry in Vietnam – Alexander & Irina Kulpin
