On behalf of everybody, I express to you sincere thanks for your prayers and support in the distribution of Christmas gifts and evangelistic sets – for children and adults. Despite quarantine, we still managed to hold a Christmas performance and gave gifts. 35 children and 44 adults children and adults came from our village.
The participation of youth from Omsk affected the hearts of my eldest daughter, Polina (12), and son Semyon (9) and they expressed their desire to serve other people.
We drove through the villages and handed out gifts, and they
participated actively in the ministry. They changed with us in costumes shepherds
and did not hesitate to talk about their faith in Jesus and His wonderful
birth. We visited three villages and handed out 150 gifts and about 200 Gospels.
Thank you for your participation and assistance in expanding His Kingdom!
A car is vital to our ministry. We praise the Lord that our ministry is expanding, but the car can no longer handle all the tasks with the assigned functions and tasks. Often you have to go to the city and transport not only people but also products food: cereals, butter, sugar.
We not only provide dairy products to our community, but we are happy to share with other communities. We also transport meat, milk, cottage cheese, sour cream, and eggs to their markets. Food products are in high demand, and we provide people high quality and healthy food, some from our own production. We also transport children twice a week to English classes, to a family of a missionary in the village which is over 31 miles away. We deliver clothes and groceries to neighboring villages. During winter our car had trouble driving around in snowy roads among forests and fields. Thanks to your help construction is underway to make improvements to our building – and therefore we often have to bring and Construction Materials.
That car which we have is small and weak and because of
large loads, often began to break. And we, prayerfully we ask you to help us in
purchasing another larger car, more spacious and able to carry a trailer. May
the Lord bless you.
Our Lord “ate and drank with the tax collectors and sinners”, because He came for “the sick, not the healthy”. People who turn to us for help are broken by sin. They don’t have destinies, and their souls are dark. But, the Lord is alive and merciful – He gives strength and opportunities, patience and compassion for those whom He brings to our abode.
Roma’s story is unique, he is 43 years old, but sin has already crippled him so much that barley living. Roman had his toes and hands amputated. And has frostbite on his legs and knees that are constantly bleeding. He suffers from epilepsy throws himself on the ground.
He lost his parents at the age of 13, and soon after he lost the housing that he inherited. He came to us after leaving the hospital, where he was once again because he was drunk and fell from the 4th floor. Now, added to all his sinful “rewards,” he has now a head injury, with craniotomy and constant headaches. Roman’s pension, like many people in his case, is minimal and not even enough for medicine. He clings to the opportunity given to him by Jesus to live, he loves to read, but because of a headache, he can’t read books. Thank you for your participation in the ministry of saving the lost.
In the middle of August, strangers called me and started telling me about an elderly man who needs help. They told me that at the beginning of summer, a middle-aged man brought an old man who could barely walk to an empty house next to them. He brought him there and just left. Approximately every 10 days, this man came back with a small bag and left a few hours later. The old man, his name is Victor, practically never appeared on the street. And the man who brought him here was his son.
He sold his father’s apartment, and brought him to a half-destroyed house, with no lights or heating. Before he sold his father’s apartment, he promised to take care of him. So, every 10 days, he brought him in a small bag several cans of food and 2 loaves of bread. Also, he is withholding his father’s small pension for himself. But that’s not all: as it turned out, the elderly man began to walk even worse, but this was due to the fact that the son was beating him almost every time he came, whenever they had disagreements.
When the neighbors learned about it, they called us, and now, glory to the Lord, Victor is with us now. The process of his rehabilitation will be very difficult and lengthy, because he has broken legs, can only move with great pain, and he does not have a single document about him – everything is with his son. Additionally, he also began to lose his hearing. He is very much disappointed in life, and we ask you to pray for his soul. Praise the Lord that he is with us. Now Victor can still live and enjoy real care.
The Lord blessed us with food packages, and we had the opportunity to share them with those in need, in our village and surrounding areas. We distributed 38 food packages, mostly to big families, the elderly, the unemployed, and the needy. And precisely about one large family that I wanted to tell you about. Nastya is 23 years old, has two children who are three and one year old, and she also carries a child at the moment. The children have a father, or rather, he appears only when Nastya receives governmental child support, which is not enough for anything, in order to take the money from her away.
We have been supporting her for a very long time, my wife goes to her almost every day. Her situation is even more complicated by the fact that they took out a mortgage, and because of the difficult situation in the country, Anatoly, the father of the children, lost his job and started drinking. For the past six months, they have not been able to pay their rent. Nastya and her children are in an extremely difficult situation, and we ask for your participation in the fate of this family. Nastya was in despair, and when she found out that she was pregnant, she wanted to have an abortion. God gave wisdom and answered our prayers and Nastya didn’t commit this terrible act.
Dear friends, we ask for your participation in the life of this girl and her children. Let us work together not to let them despair and lose their homes over their heads.
We don’t have enough words to express our gratefulness. Our hearts are filled with joy. We praise and thank the Lord for your prayers, help, and support. One of the serious drawbacks at Bethesda was the old roof. Because of the leaking ceiling, we could not make internal repairs in the rooms. Over the course of seven days, the roof structure was reconstructed: the roof was replaced and covered with new iron sheets. Brothers and sisters from seven different communities participated in the work. Thanks to the replacement of the roof, we will be able to redecorate three more rooms, in which nine people can live. Elderly at the age of 55-60 years, who do not have relatives and those who nobody cares about are increasingly turning to us for help.
Bethesda is located in the very center of the village, and none of the local residents can pass by without seeing what great thing is being done here, where until recently there was nothing! Thank you for everything!
