Together again!

3 years old

April 2, 2010 our baby girl turned 3 years old. Time has flown so incredibly quickly. She has grown into such a little lady and we are so thankful to the Lord for this child. My parents, her cousins and friends were able to help us celebrate her day. After the initial shyness of being sung to - she jumped right into the festivities and had a great time. We praise the Lord for Abigail Joy!

Mornings at Bah's house

While we are here in the States staying with Bah and Grandaddy, our mornings are quite peaceful. Abigail usually occupies herself with books or like today, playdough and Simon sleeps peacefully in his bassinet. The Lord has given us two very precious children for which we are most grateful!

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!!!