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Greetings to you in the precious love of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ!

First of all we want to congratulate you on the coming Holiday – Resurrection of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ! May the peace, joy and love from our risen Lord fill your hearts, families and churches in every day of your lives! Thank you so much for your prayer and financial support of our family and ministry. It is honor for us to serve our Lord together with you.

It seems that yesterday was Christmas and now the Easter is coming. It seems that God fastened time so that we will remember that His coming is very near. Dear friends, today we thank the Lord and all of you for your prayers for the health of our youngest son, Matvei. The recent diagnostics showed practically no deviation in his development. Now we have worries for the health of our son Ilia. Recently he has started having certain neurological problems (nervous tics and irritation). We don’t understand where these problems come from because we have a wonderful, harmonious family. Therefore we ask you to support our family and health of our children in your prayers.

 

ruslan-1st-qtr-2013-01Our family and church really feel your prayer support because we see the real answers to the prayers. Thus, last time we asked you to pray for evangelistic Christmas events at schools and kindergartens. In our country the open evangelization in educational establishments is forbidden. But, despite this, the Lord blessed us to hold wonderful Christmas meetings with children in an orphanage and kindergarten. And, after the meeting in kindergarten, the head of the village asked us to come from time to time and tell children about Jesus and the Bible. Thinking about this, we plan to hold the Easter program there. In the past we borrowed a Puppet Theater and musical equipment for this purpose, but we had to give it back. Please, join our prayers for the possibility for us having our own puppets and musical equipment to hold cele-brations for children and other events.

Last month our church started the ministry among children from needy families. This ministry is called Day Center. Every Tuesday and Saturday, after lessons in public school, our center is attended by about 10-15 children. We are not ready to take more children yet because in addition to Bible lessons and helping doing homework we prepare lunch for them and we can afford feeding only about 15 children. But the Lord shows to us that we need to carry out this ministry. Children that come to our meetings eat with such hunger, arguing who will get more sandwiches and watching each other so that nobody gets more cookies.

With great joy they participate in the Bible school program and pray, despite the fact that very often their parents don’t accept their faith and often laugh at them. Thus, one of the boys that attend our Day Center, Bogdan, is 9 years old and his parents are alcohol addicted and regularly gather in their house a company of the same people. Bogdan, feeling the love and care from us, always runs to our meetings with great joy, because in his family he never experiences love and care. But his mother found out that he attends church and threw him out of the house. For some time he had to hide at their neighbor’s house. We plan to meet and talk with this mother. Please pray the Lord to soften her heart.

In addition to day center we continue holding regular meetings for children in the orphanage and pray the Lord to help us hold the summer camps in the church and schools.

Sister Tanya in our church, despite her certain disability, has started the prayer ministry. Every Sunday, before the worship service she and a group of dedicated brothers and sisters in Christ gather for prayer for the ministry and needs of the church. This prayer group is a great blessing and encouragement for all of us.

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For a long time we have prayed for all members of our church to be in some specific way involved in the church ministries. And now we see the answer to our prayers because almost all young people in our church serve the Lord. Some of them sing, some of them do children’s ministry, one lady writes poems and reads them in the church, some of them hold the women’s ministry and some of them preach. And others have started the theater ministry. They showed plays on Biblical stories, such as Esther, Ruth and others, and it became a great part of evangelistic and worship services. Now we are preparing to go to the neighbor village and show the Esther play and hold the evangelistic meeting for women. This month we held such meeting in our church.

Finishing this letter we ask you, dear friends, to pray for the evangelistic bicycle race that we are planning to hold in summer and for the equipment we need for this purpose – microphones and speakers. Last year in the village Lypne gathered about 200 people and it was very hard for us to talk to them without microphone and speakers. Please pray for the possibility for us to finish the construction of the Sunday school classrooms and day center.

We thank our Lord for you, dear brothers and sisters. Your prayer and financial support is a great blessing for us. May the Lord richly bless you!

With love and prayers for you,

Ruslan Buryachok

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