June 2024

Greetings, dear friends! 

Before July is over, I want to share with you the news and events from June😄

This is the month of ministry partners development for the next year in our mission. It is time to step out of comfort zone and reach out to different Christians, as well as look for new contacts and opportunities where you can share about your ministry. But it is also a time of complete trust in God. So at the beginning of the month we had a zoom training on this, and then it was time for calls and meetings.

I thank God that He has blessed me with several new people who also want to be a part of my ministry to students, pray and financially support me. This is a great blessing and encouragement for me 😊

At this time, I have not yet collected all the necessary amount, so I have to continue to search for finances in the future.

Drawing master class

Thank God for our volunteers, who themselves continue to serve students while the staff is engage in MPD. This is what it means to make disciples, when you are gone, there will be your disciples who will continue to fulfill the Great Commission.

Bible study for non-believers

In order to be aware of each other's lives and to have a common prayer once a week, volunteers hold a prayer in Zoom for our community.

This year can be considered the year of Baptism😊We thank God for one more of His children who made a covenant with Him. Maxim appeared on Campus when I was still a student. His older brother followed to Christ through our ministry, and then he began to influence Maxim, take him to our projects and events. Maxim was only 17 years old then. Then there was covid, the war, and Maksym was not in Kyiv for a long time. In the spring, he came to us for a study for the spiritually interested, and after he told us about his repentance. We were very happy and invited he as volunteers to our community. Now Maksym was baptized and is actively involved in the ministry.

As you  may know, beside student ministry, we have other directions of ministry in our mission. One of them is humanitarian ministry, from time to time I write to you about the yellow boxes we collect for IDPs, victims and the military. Also humanitarian ministry engaged in the reconstruction of homes for families who are in a difficult situation and are unable to do so themselves. 

In June, and I was able to join it. Staff and volunteers from different cities of Ukraine, we went to Kherson region, in one of the villages de-occupied last year. The family you can see in the photo on the left lived in the summer kitchen all this time. Their house was hit missile, the wall collapsed, the veranda and roof were completely broken, and the windows were broken. It's not that the children didn't have their own room, they didn't even have a corner to do their homework.

It was the first experience of such a reconstruction for me, and I really liked it. Despite the fact that it was difficult and hot, but these were very good days. Our student Vika, who is herself an IDP from the Zaporizhzhia region, also went with me, their house is still under occupation. Therefore, she especially feels the pain of this family. Vika, has already heard a lot about Christ and even went through Step Apa about Christianity and once came to church with me. On the trip, she also saw practical Christianity and how we relate to each other. Please pray for the salvation of Vika and the family of Natalie and her children (Diana and Max), that they will all see the infinite love of God and that their lives will be changed forever.

Personal: 

I finished the course of study at ILUK at the UBTS seminary in Lviv. I think I will definitely need this knowledge in my work in the new team in Odessa. It was nice to get out of the bubble and hear a lot of new information. I am very grateful to everyone who helped me raise the necessary amount to pay for this course. You are simply incredible and your belief in my ministry is very inspiring and keeps me going.

Now we are on vacation, but I have to do a lot of things during it, such as moving to Odessa, finding an apartment there, and finishing the ministry partners development. I am very much asking for your prayer support for me 🙏

I am sincerely grateful to God for you, be blessed dear 💖