Everyday God gives us something to be grateful for here in Ukraine. I would like to point out two of these for you today. (1) Sergei- one of my students and the only one of my students from Belarus. He came to us with the strong recommendation of a trusted IMB missionary. He moved from Minsk to another city of 400,000 nearly two years now. This city only has 4 Baptist churches and only a handful of other denominations. He has a team and a vision and will be planting his church this fall. He came to see me here in Kiev yesterday. It is a 10 hour train trip by the way. He delivered a copy of his post assignment for one of my classes... 70 hours of work on the demographics of his city. As we were sitting talking about his work I found out in the last year his team has led 10 people to Christ and have already baptized 5 of them. What was most exciting was one of these baptized had been prayed for, for over 5 years by Sergei and the mans wife. After accepting Christ this man has just recently led another man to Christ. PTL. God is working.
 (2) Joseph- is one of my students who lives out in Western Ukraine in the mountains. I talked to him yesterday and he gave me a very encouraging report on the people he works with…Romas. One of the men in the Roma village, Kolya, has recently converted to Christ and is a brilliant witness for the gospel. He is a strong leader in the Roma village. He has cancer and has had it for sometime but this has not slowed him down. My student said that Kolya has just returned from Budapest after receiving medical treatment. Kolya told him that the doctors are amazed at his progress. Kolya shared openly with the doctors that Jesus Christ has made all the difference in his life and his family. PTL The above picture was 2 years ago soon after Kolya had come to the Lord.
Thank you God for young men who are out on the front lines planting churches in this part of the world. Thank you God for allowing me to be a witness to what you are doing here.
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