Current Prayer Requests- April

Please pray
•For wisdom to see the opportunities to share the Gospel with the guys from the guys’s night
•For our church to be about fulfilling Great Commission while hiking.
•For Marina in Pridnestrovye as she is trying to establish a youth ministry in the nearby village.
•For wisdom as to how to take care for Mikael.
•For wisdom for us as we try to communicate the nature of God to the Church
•For wisdom and discipline to continue to devote ourselves to one another as spouses while having very busy lives.

Current Matters April 09

Currents matters #1

It is a blessing to participate and watch what the Lord is doing here in Odessa. Our two interns from the Missionary Training School (Lesya and Marina) came back from Belarus where they have spent half of their internship. It was a blessing to hear how the Lord was using them, challenging them and changing them during their time of ministry over there. They have changed a lot and have matured so much! It is an answer to prayer! They are at the moment in Prydnistrovya, serving and working at the orphanage that we attend about once a month.

Current Matters April 09

Current matters #2
The Church is growing in quantity and quality. We keep on training and discipling the Church members to the glory of God equipping them with various tools for the work of the ministry. The equipping process involves one-on-one meetings and small group meetings (like Biblical Training Institute (BTI) and the University Bible Studies). We have finished the topic of Baptism and will start the “Principles of Faith” at the BTI, and at the University Bible Study we are finishing the series on dating.

Current Matters April 09

Current matters #3
On the 25^th of April we started an Upward soccer league in our neighborhood. It was encouraging to see that 11 kids came, enough kids for two teams! Another great highlight was to see the people from the church serving and taking their roles in all the organizing and activities. Please keep praying for this ministry, we need more kids to come and join.

Current Matters April 09

Currents matters #4
From the 30th of April till the 3rd of May Arkadiy was at a pastor’s conference in Kharkov (Eastern Ukraine). It was a very good time of learning and sharing with others that were at the conference as well. The speakers shared a lot of fundamental principles about planting and running the church. They presented it in a very practical way and we (Zhenya and I) were happy to be there and learn together from the Bible and about His bride. It was indeed a delightful time. P.S. The church that you see in the picture had nothing to do with the conference :) It is just one of the pretty, dead churches in Kharkov

Current Matters April 09

Current matters #5
The greatest challenges for us at the moment are time management and Anneke’s health. There are a lot of ministry opportunities and needs around and we are just asking the Lord to help us choose wisely and as we choose we ask Him to help us manage our time properly in order to bring Him glory through what He appoints us to do.