Phase 1: Establish and plant a new church of Christ in
Kremenchuk. This has been clearly and successfully begun! Over the last few
weeks, even with summer vacations, we have averaged 14. This last Sunday we had
15, the week before 17 – and this is with several out of town. Our contribution
has been growing and steady as well. This shows a growth and maturity of the
local congregation.
We have been to two Bible Camps this summer with great
results and blessings. We have had 5 baptisms in the month of August. Other
Bible studies are ongoing with other people as well. A final note is that we
have had an online fund raiser to help Inna, the Christian mother of 5 teenager
Orphans raise the money she needs to fix her roof. We raised over $1,200.00 in
under 3 days for needs for the home.
Phase 2: Find and hire a native Ukrainian preacher to
work with us. Artur Litvinenko joined us in the work on June 3rd.
Over the last 2 ½ months we are becoming more aware of what a jewel of a
Brother in Christ we have! He handles ½ of the preaching and Bible Classes we
teach along with working with the youth.
Phase 3: the establishment of a church building to also
be used as an English Bible School. We have found a building that we think will
fit our needs very well! This is more than what we have budgeted but we do believe
that God will provide through the generous support from our Christian family of
the Church in the USA. I’ll put the budget plans shortly in an email to everyone
on my email list, but not here in the blog. If you want more information about
these financial plans and budgets, please let me know.
There are 3 very successful English Bible Schools being
run in Ukraine right now by 3 different churches of Christ. In September, myself and
2 others are going to visit 2 of these schools to see what they are doing so we
can incorporate their successes into what we want to do here in Kremenchuk.
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