Thank you for your prayers. Today was our busiest day so far. After a good two days in Ternobil with the church we journeyed north to Lutsk where George Markie has been aiming his prayers. They hope to see a work started here soon, running services on Saturday nights and heading back for Sundays in ternobil. Tuesday was a little slow. It was cold and rainy so a bit tough to do any ministry. We were hoping for opportunities in the university with some English classes and some sun so we could play with the kids outdoors in the park. Praise the Lord our prayers were answered today. We had two very enthusiastic classes with the English students and huge favor with the teachers. Svetlana was especially eager to have us everyday and Irina was happy to have us teach in her class. All together there were about forty girls. No boys in the classes, strange huh? We invited them to show us the city later and meet us for tea in the evening.
George, Jon, and I went to see about a place they could rent for a possible first meeting on Saturday. The place will work perfectly well and we have it reserved for Saturday. Calvary Chapel Lutsk will have it's first meeting this Saturday!! George got to work on invitations right away and we went to the park to meet with the kids for a while. The team had lots of fun playing in the (cold) park. Balloons soccer and dodgeball. They are all expecting us back tomorrow.
In the evening we met with about 10-12 of the college girls for tea cookies and games at a local candy type store. They all had a good grasp on English so when Lisa gave her testimony they were really touched. She shared the gospel so well and prayed for them. Jon played an awesome song he had written in Ukrainian and after we shared the gospel and asked if they wanted to pray to receive Jesus THE ALL INVITED THE LORD INTO THEIR LIVES!!! We were so stoked.
We are scheduled to be in class first thing in the morning tomorrow. We will probably have a similar schedule for the day. Please pray that God confirms His word and show himself to these young people tonight, even as they sleep, and tomorrow. I felt like the Lord impressed on my heart that they really need to know how much He loves them. They don't really know Gods love in what they see in churches here. It is all religion. They are literally afraid of their churches and religious leaders. Please pray their hearts would be opened to understand His love for them.
OK, I will keep you updated. Thank you so much for your prayers and spiritual partnership in our venture. Great things are ahead for this city and we are excited to see God's plan unfold here.
Bud and the team
You can see pictures at my facebook page.
2 comments:
Praise God!!!
hope you had fun and have done all that god wanted from you here in ukraine))) and... do not want to do that that i will do. i'll tell that ternoPil is a right name of the city =D but if you found ternobil in ukraine that it's allright =D bazinga =D but nevertheless ternoPil.
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