Christmas 2009

Thank you so much for praying for our first worship service. Even though Christmas isn't really celebrated here until January 7 - and the 25th of December is a work and school day, we had 20 people come out to celebrate the birth of our Savior on that day. It was a really special service. It was especially fulfilling to see our new believers excited about the work they had done passing out brochures - and seeing the fruit from that labor. Please continue to pray for Emil, Luba, Tonya and Sasha as they grow in their faith and allow the Lord to change and restore their lives.

We are having another Christmas service on January 7th - the official Christmas day in the Orthodox world. We are praying that the Lord would use our personal testimonies, brochures and prayers to draw more unsaved to our services. We covet your prayers as well!

Christmas card evangelism 2009

We have been praying for effective ways to get the word out about Holy Trinity Baptist Church. The Lord impressed upon Oleg's heart the need to emphasis Christmas in our evangelistic efforts. He worked and prayed over these Christmas cards for a long time and the Lord really blessed his efforts. We just got them back from the printers, all 5,000 of them :). Our goal is to put one in the door or every apartment and home surrounding our church building before December 24. For those of you who don't read Ukrainian :), these Christmas brochures wish the reader a Merry Christmas, invite the reader to our special Christmas services (both on Dec. 25th - called Hungarian/Catholic Christmas here and on Jan. 7th - Orthodox Christmas,) give a brief synopsis of what we believe and a short run down on how our church is "different" from what the typical idea of what a "church" is.

Please pray that the Lord would use these Christmas cards for His glory and that they might tweek the interest of non-believers who are inclined to go to church on Christmas to come and visit us! After Christmas, we will also be meeting for Sunday worship services in our rented facilities.

From wintery, snowy Ukraine, we wish you a very Merry and Christ-centered Christmas Season!!!

Wii Bible Club at Holy Trinity Baptist Church

Tuesdays and Saturdays are Wii Bible Club days at our church. The Lord has given us some wonderful kids from our neighborhood to work with. They are from 11-16 years old and very open to the Word of God. They are memorizing scripture, learning Christian songs, playing the hand chimes (getting ready for Christmas) and of course, playing Wii. Abigail loves to go to church now b/c there are children there! Please pray for this ministry.