Big Sister

The Lord has answered our prayers for Abigail's adjustment to being a big sister and having a very attention getting little brother. She is doing wonderful and really seems to love Simon. She helps me change his diaper and puts his socks on and doesn't seem to really mind when he nurses, etc. She is growing up so fast and truly is a joy - we named her right - Abigail Joy.

Simon Joshua Enskyy

Thank you for praying for the birth of our son, Simon Joshua Enskyy. He made his grand entry into this world on Monday, February 8,2010 at 14:31 in Greenville, SC USA. The Lord was so good to give Lori a fast and safe delivery of our son. Abigail is adjusting quite well to her little brother. She loves to put his socks on him and help Lori change his diaper. Oleg is at home in Ukraine and Lord willing, will be able to come to the US in March to help get the children home. We praise the Lord for His goodness to us!

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.

food closet ministry

last tuesday at our youth meeting, a new little girl came to visit. her name is albina. she is 12. during game time after bible study, she and i got to talking. she told me that she hadn't eaten in 2 days - that her father was out of work and her mother wasn't around. i couldn't sleep that night thinking about that little girl trying to go to bed hungry. it has been quite cold and rainy here lately. oleg found this little girl's address and phone number in our contact list and we called her father. he said that he wouldn't object to our church helping their family during this down and out time in their lives. we were able to minister to their family thru the food closet ministry that the lord helped us start several years ago. we were able to give her father the gospel as well as provide staples (potatos, onions, eggs) for their family to eat. he seemed open to coming to friday night bible study. please pray for him, his name is anatoli. unfortunately in our part of the world, this story is not uncommon. we thank those who faithfully give to the food closet ministry and pray that the lord will continue to burden the hearts of his people to help us with this ministry. it really helps us to get out there and show the love of jesus as well as telling about it.

meeting kristina

our wonderful friends and babysitters natasha and marianna now have a little niece - her name is kristina. we often go out to the village to visit with them. abigail is trying to get used to mama holding another baby. for now, she tolerates it. we are praying that she will love her new baby brother and that we will have the wisdom and energy to show her the love and attention that she needs after the baby is born.