Looking back at July

Timothy Leadership Training

                On the 25^th – 26^th along with Timothy Leadership Institute we hosted a conference on Pastoral Care. We had about 22-24 pastors and Church leaders attend. It was a good time of thinking, sharing, planning and learning together.

Looking back at July

SHOCKING NEWS:

On the 28^th of June Mikki was admitted into Intensive Care Unit. Anneke and I didn’t know whether we will see him alive. He was slowly sliding into a coma and was starting to turn blue and cold. We prayed and asked the Lord to save his life. He did. Few hours later we were told that he has type one diabetes. He spent two and half days at the ICU and then was transferred into a different department of the hospital. Anneke joined him for a week and half and then got sick so I substituted her for about 4 days until we were released from the hospital.

We are grateful to the Lord for a spared life, for all the prayers and help we received!

Right now Mikki is getting 4 shots of insulin a day. It is a constant battles with the level of the sugar in the blood jumping up and down.

Looking Back at July

Camp ministry

The Lord blessed us with a wonderful camp! The team and the campers were great! Campers were very open to talk about spiritual things! We had 3 people commit their lives to Christ and quite a few who are counter plating the decision. The Gospel was shared very clearly and we prayed for them that they would not find rest until they find the answers to the questions and doubts they have. Now there is A LOT of follow up to do, we are excited about the fruit that the Lord has given to us.

Current Prayer Requests- Aug

Prayer requests:

Please pray for Mikki and his health. We believe the Lord can heal him.

Please pray for Anneke and I as we adjust to this new life style.

Pray for wisdom for me to lead my family and the ministries here.

Please pray for the follow up ministry.

Please pray for the preparations for the Missionary training center (starts the 5^th of September).

Greetings!

Dear fellow servants!

The summer seems to have finally settled in which means a different season with many ministry opportunities is here.

Racism is here!!!????

Racism is here!!!????

                The three of us were invited to visit a family whom Anneke ministered to while she was pregnant. They are unbelievers. There was another family invited. We were half the age of those families present. The families are Ukrainian citizens but consider themselves Russians and Russian Orthodox as far as their religious beliefs. We started talking about history and the visit turned to be a 5 hour heated debate with an extreme racist bent. I was shocked! They desired for the Russian empire to be back and one of the engines for achieving it would be the Russian Orthodox Church. I have heard of it before but I have never seen it face to face, it was ugly. But it gave us an insight as to what we can expect as far as the opposition from the Russian Orthodox Church. Russia is trying to create a strong spirit chauvinism and it uses the Russian Orthodox Church as a tool for it. The latter one is being very aggressive as they fight for the control over the person, and once they have it they will fight in order to maintain it. It was an eye opener to me to see that there is a tremendous, purposefully placed political and religious mechanism, designed for expanding Russia’s geopolitical control.

Current Matters - New Church Members

New Church members:
We are happy to announce that this last Sunday we had a meeting with a couple and one gal. They have expressed a desire to become members of our church and for us to hold them accountable as to their spiritual growth. We are excited to have them join us. They are excited about serving the Lord and have been doing it for quite some time now at various places in the past.