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The warmest greetings to you in the love of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ!

Please, accept our sincere congratulations to you, dear brothers and sisters, on the resurrection of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ! It is so wonderful that we believe in a living God, who gives us salvation and hope! We are so much grateful to Him for you and for your prayer and financial support of our ministry to the Lord. May He shed His abundant blessings upon you and generously provide your every need!

This year for our family has started very difficult. Because of a disease, a child my wife was pregnant with, died. After this, my wife went through the serious treatment that hurt her health. There are no analyses that can clearly show if this disease is healed, but we believe that God healed it. Our daughter also had a surgery (omphalocele), and as a result of it all, we faced financial difficulties. But during the hardest moments, the Lord was the closest for us, strengthened our faith and trust in Him, and encouraged us through the big family of God’s children. Our Lord is truly great!

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But at the same time we have many blessings. Our church is very friendly and zealous in ministry. We develop great women’s ministry, in which sister Olesya, who leads this ministry, gives an opportunity to ladies to study the Scripture and express their thoughts. These meetings are held in an atmosphere of trust that women like very much (photo 1).

In a special way the Lord blessed our children’s ministry, and though now fewer children attend our day center, those children who attend our meetings regularly are changing and become more obedient, attentive, love to pray and memorize Bible verses. It is a true miracle, considering the fact that they live in terrible conditions in their houses. Thanks to the Lord, with the help of our brothers and sisters we continue construction of Sunday school classes near our Prayer House. Also, brothers work free of charge, we only have need in buying the construction materials. Please, join our prayers for this need. We can’t wait when everything is over and we can prepare lunches for children and have the equipped place for ministry ready for them.

What a great joy for us is that our church is attended by three new people – two women from the neighbor village and a brother of our deceased sister in Christ who had prayed for him for a long time.

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Recently the Lord gave to our church a great opportunity to hold evangelizations in many villages of our district by means of showing the “Magdalena” movie. We have already held four evangelizations and plan to hold it in three more villages. Not many people come, but those who do, are open for conversations. We take their addresses, pray for them and plan our ministry to continue communicating with them. This movie remains a great impression after watching it and awakens in people the desire to know more about Jesus Christ. In addition, we invite almost all people in these villages – we give invitations that are made like evangelistic brochures, and even those people, who were not able to come to our meeting, had a chance to read the Gospel (photo 2).

It is joy for me to tell you that our youth are also involved into the church ministry – they are preparing the Easter puppet play to show it in schools and kindergartens. We have many plans and we ask you to pray for us, so that God will bless our ministry to Him. We also ask you to support us in prayer for peace in our country and for prevention of war. In addition, the economic and political situation deteriorated more and more. We understand that we have to trust the Lord in all that, but many people are truly afraid and anxious. Our hope is only in God!

Thank you very much for everything that you do here in Ukraine. Your prayer and financial support means very much for us. May our almighty and gracious Lord reward you hundredfold by the riches of His great mercy and love!

With love and respect,

Ruslan Buryachok

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