Thanks so much for praying for the prayer requests we sent you recently concerning the volunteer project we were getting ready for with a volunteer group from Mississippi. God heard your prayers and answered.
First of all, He prevented the Orthodox priest from being successful in protesting the work. Although he tried repeatedly, and did cause problems and difficulties that had to be dealt with, God worked out the problems and allowed us to do all the work we had planned to do.
Secondly, He gave wonderful health and safe travel to the group during their time here and en route here and back to the USA. The wonderful MS group completed their construction project, did evangelism activities in various institutions and settings in the city, and held medical clinics 5 days. More than 1,450 appointments were received by the doctors, and all of those who came heard the gospel and received New Testaments.
Also, He used all the trouble the priest tried to stir up to probably give us some of the best PR the church has ever gotten. All the officials are certainly more aware of the churches where we worked and that they are active in that city of 45,000. (Perhaps we should thank the priest for the publicity.)
Please pray for the following needs:
- Pray for our entire team as we are presently out of the country in Poland for our Annual Missionary Meeting (Which is also why I was late in getting this prayer/praise report out to you.) This meeting is with all our other missionaries from across the former USSR. Pray for our safe travel and return, and for the training we will receive here this week.
- Pray for the small group ministries we are trying to launch and train people for in our city of Dnipropetrovsk. This is the key to reaching our city with the gospel.
- Continue to pray that God will call out and put into the hearts of hundreds of Ukrainian young men the burden to start new churches in our region.
