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

We are very much grateful to the Lord for you and for your prayer and financial support of our ministry. It means very much for our ministry and gives us a possibility to dedicate our time to preaching the Gospel, especially during this very hard time for our people and nation. May our gracious Heavenly Father richly bless you and generously provide your every need!

Thanks to our Lord, our family is doing well, although my wife’s health has worsened again. Please, join our prayers for this need. It may be dangerous, but we trust our Lord.

We also have a special request to pray for our country, so that God will grant us peace and so that bloodshed will stop. Pray God to protect our people. Recently the political and economic condition in our country has significantly worsened. In addition, people from the eastern regions of Ukraine had to leave their houses and look for refuge in other regions of Ukraine. Even our small church hosted three Christian families of refugees who have little children. Our congregation supports them as much as we can. Please, pray for these families – they have not their own dwelling and, in addition, their children get sick often.

Telling about the ministry of our congregation, I want to thank our Lord for creating a very good team of ministers in our church (photo 1). Thus, a family of brother Daniel has joined our congregation not so long ago and this year they already visited public schools and evangelized to children. At the same time my wife and I had an opportunity to hold camps in other places. In this way we could serve in four villages. This year children have been especially open and many children responded to the invitation of repentance (photo 2).

We rejoice that our teenagers are also very active in ministry – they prepare puppet plays and with this evangelistic program we visit schools and kindergarten (photo 3).

At present we are getting ready to hold the Tent evangelization that we plan to hold this summer. We pray for the blessing of this ministry, so that we will be able to do it, because until now we have had many problems from the local authorities. We also ask so that the Lord will help us organizing the camps for women from our church, for children from the day center and for youth.

May the Lord richly bless you and reward you for your open hearts and for your support! It is a great blessing for us. May the Lord richly bless you! It is a great blessing for us to serve the Lord together with you.

With love and respect,

Ruslan Buryachok

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!

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.

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

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

Having this wonderful opportunity to share with you our blessings and worries, I want to thank all of you for your prayer and financial support of our ministry to the Lord. It is honor for us to serve the Lord together with you. May He richly bless you and generously provide your every need!

Analyzing this year, we cannot help wondering with how much strength God gives us and how much He helps us to do everything – in ministry, family and helping others. Praise God!

Speaking about our family, recently we found out that God wants to bless us with one more baby. But at the same time we faced great trial because my wife Lyudmila got sick with an infectious disease – borreliosis. Our doctors don’t know how to treat this disease, especially for a pregnant woman. Our hope is in God only, therefore it is our great need that you will support us in prayer.

Despite the fact that we have lots of difficulties, we feel special spiritual exultation. The Lord strengthens us spiritually, builds His church, and it is a great encouragement for me as a minister. Brothers from our church already participate in the ministry in neighbor villages. We even decided to send our two preachers and our youth twice a month to other village churches. Their aim is to encourage the congregation and help in evangelistic ministry.

I also would like to share with you the development of our prayer ministry. We keep holding the prayer meetings before every Sunday worship service. We also have overnight prayers and recently we have practiced our first special fast and prayer before Communion service. It became a great blessing for us. While we have been having our overnight prayer, the Lord already answered and made miracles. Thus, our sister Dusya prayed for repentance of her brother, who had been sick for a long time. In a day before his death He invited us to his home and repented with tears. Then he thanked us for those of us that came to share the Gospel with Him.

Leader of our prayer ministry, sister Tanya, prayed for God to add new people to our prayer group and after a short period of time, three new people joined this group. Praise God!

We pray for Galya (she recently repented) and her family, and we already see changes in Galya’s and her mother’s behavior.

We also have started the women’s prayer ministry in our church. We have prayed for this need for a long time because we had no sister to lead this ministry. But God gave desire and zeal to sister Olesya and now every Wednesday, sisters gather for the women’s service – they have fellowship, pray and study Bible (photo 1 – leaders of the women’s and prayer ministries).

I also would like to ask you praying about our ministry in the orphanage, held by our sister Oksana, because it is very difficult and important work among both children and staff of this orphanage (photo 2).

Dear brothers and sisters, please, pray for the ministry of our day center. It is attended by children from the needy and crisis families, therefore they are very undisciplined, nervous and cruel.
Often we have not enough wisdom and strength for this ministry. Although we see that God is changing the hearts of these children, sometimes they fight, break church property and disrupt the lessons. Therefore we ask you to support us in your prayers for these children and for this ministry, because it is very important. We need your prayers greatly.

Thank you so much for your prayer and financial support. It is such a blessing for us. We pray for you, dear friends. We are very much grateful to the Lord for you! May He richly bless you and generously provide your every need!

With love and prayers for you,

Ruslan Buryachok

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

It is great privilege for us to serve our Heavenly Father together with you. Your prayer and financial support is very important for us. I am so much grateful to our Lord for you. Thank you so much for everything that you’re doing for us! May our Heavenly Father bless you abundantly for your faithful ministry in Ukraine and provide your every need by the riches of His mercy!

This summer was rich with different services and events both in our church and in our family. Thus, this year for the first time in several years we were able to go to the sea with our entire family. It was a wonderful week. Our children were so impressed. For the first time in their lives they saw so much water, ships and jellyfish. It was a wonderful time together, which so often we are lacking. We are very much grateful to the Lord for this rest.

In our ministry the Lord blessed us to hold three evangelistic camps this summer. They were held in the public schools and one camp was held in our church for children from needy families and orphans (photo 1). In one of our camps we had a very special boy, Artyom. He had very good behavior and was very reasonable. After talking to him, we found out that he lives alone with his mother, who is alcohol addicted and lives an immoral lifestyle. But, thank God, this camp affected her too, because after this camp she visited our church service together with her son. We pray the Lord to touch her heart and transform the life of her family. All the young people from our church visited the summer youth festival of the churches of the central Ukraine. One young man repented then. Praise God! His name is Alexander and he is 20 years old (photo 2). We build friendly relationships with him and help him to grow up spiritually.

Three of our sisters in Christ and four unbelieving women visited the evangelistic camp for women.

Children from the needy families, who attend our Day Center, had a chance to rest during a week in the overnight camp in Khmelnitsky region.

We had many other events and services and it is very hard to describe all of them. I would like to tell about the most special. Thus, recently the Lord encouraged me in my prayers for the revival among youth. One young lady repented at our youth service. Her name is Galya. It was her firm decision to turn to the Lord and follow Him. In few days after Galya’s repentance, my wife met her, and saw a great change in Galya. Praise God!

The Lord blesses us to develop the prayer ministry in our church. Last month our sisters united for the overnight prayer and recently they made the prayer bulletin and all members of our church pray according to these needs every day. They pray each hour for the certain need. It is so wonderful because the entire congregation feels the real strength of God when He answers our prayers.

A few weeks ago I had a phone call from the hospital with a request to visit one sick young man. His name is Vitaliy and he is 25 years old. He has cancer of the terminal stage. When I visited him, he was so broken and I didn’t know what to tell him. But I prayed and then just shared the Gospel and God’s plan of salvation with him. I told him that he should be ready to meet with the Lord. I saw that my words saddened Vitaliy even more because he wanted me to heal him. After some time, I called him and was gladly surprised, when I heard him saying: “Ruslan, I am glad to hear you. Thank you for your call. I am in the hospital now, but after treatment I will be very glad to meet with you.” The Lord is making miracles, transforming lives and hearts of people. Praise God!

Dear friends, please, pray for Alexander, Galya, Vitaliy and our entire church. We need your prayers because we realize that prayer has a great power. We also pray for the evangelistic family groups that we want to start this winter. We have certain difficulties in arranging the papers on our church building and finishing the construction of the Sunday school classes and the Day Center. We need your prayers very much.

Thank you so much for your love to our family and church. May the Lord richly bless you with His Father’s blessing, fill the desires of your hearts and help you in your problems! We love you very much and always remember you in our prayers.

With love and prayers for you,

Ruslan Buryachok

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

I am very much grateful to God for this blessing to write to you and share with you our blessings and prayer needs. I am very much grateful to God for His church. He uses us for salvation of Ukrainian people. May the Lord answer our prayers and richly bless you with all of His abundant blessings! May He reward you hundredfold for your faithful and sacrificial ministry! It means so much for us.

By God’s mercy our life and ministry continues and develops. Our children grow up – our middle daughter Mariyka has started attending the kindergarten. Therefore now it is easier for my wife to deal with all the chores about the house. She is my great helper and a blessing from God. The Lord blesses us in our ministry and it is a great joy for my wife and me.

The Lord gave to us the helpers in our ministry – a married couple, Daniel and Alyona. They are young people, full of energy and desire to serve the Lord. Daniel is learning to preach and helps us in the church construction. Now we are getting ready for the children’s camp in our church and decided to make a special yard where we would play games with children. We want to make the lawn near our church for this purpose, so that children would play safely and enjoy the games.

Our summer is very rich with different children’s and youth projects. We have already held three evangelistic camps for children in the local public schools, attended by about 150 children (photo 2). We also have organized the youth picnic and plan to visit with our youth and teenagers the local youth festival. Please, pray for this festival to help our youth growing up spiritually because it hurts me seeing that some young people are falling spiritually.

Recently the Lord induces us to pay attention to the problems in families. In our town many families suffer from conflicts and more than half of the families end with divorce. Christian families also have problems. Therefore our Lord touched our hearts to organize the family meetings on which we would discuss the actual topics and problems. When we started preparing these meetings, we were convinced that it truly was God’s will for us to start this ministry because we felt the opposition from God’s enemy. No unbelievers agreed to come, but sisters from our church united in prayer for this ministry.

Thank God, we have already held our first meeting, attended by six married couples. The Lord brought the unchurched husbands of ladies from our church. They had been against us, but they came to this meeting and listened about how to build their relationships according to the Word of God (photo 3). This meeting passed very blessed and we all agreed to continue this ministry. We plan to organize the home groups of Bible study for families, called “Familybuilders”.

The Lord blesses us to develop the prayer ministry in our church. Last month our sisters united for the overnight prayer and recently they made the prayer bulletin and all members of our church pray according to these needs every day. They pray each hour for the certain need. It is so wonderful because the entire congregation feels the real strength of God when He answers our prayers.

Dear friends, we ask you to keep praying for Ukraine and for our church. We need your prayers very much. We plan to bring ladies from our church with their unchurched friends to the evangelistic camp for women. We also ask you to pray for the development of the family ministry and construction of the Prayer House.

Thank you so much for your prayer and financial support. We need it so much. May our almighty Lord bless you and reward you hundredfold by His great love and mercy! Thank you so much for your sacrificial love to our family. May the peace, love, harmony and mutual understanding fill your families! We love you very much and always remember you in our prayers.

With love and prayers for you,

Ruslan Buryachok

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.

Our 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.

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

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

I am so grateful to our Lord for the wonderful opportunity to write and thank you for your great participation in our ministry to the Lord. It means so much to us. Thank you so much for your love and attention to our family. We sincerely congratulate you on Christmas and New Year. May the peace, joy and love from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ always fill your houses and hearts!

We so love this special winter time of festive services, carols, congratulations, but most of all we love to realize that Jesus was born and lives in our hearts.

Dear friends, we want to thank you for your prayers for the health of our son Matfei. He’s feeling much better now. But he was diagnosed with certain neurological problems. Please, keep praying for him. We so need your prayers. Pray that the Lord would heal him completely. We have attached our family photo.

The greatest blessing for us in our ministry is the group of committed Christians who help me in my ministry. At the home of one of the sisters in our church we have started a youth group Bible study. It is attended by 10 young people. Ladies in our church regularly hold the meetings for women on different topics and invite unchurched women there. Such meetings mean so for women from our church – they prepare poems, singing and testimonies for these meetings. On the last meeting for women, one lady repented. Praise God!

Recently in our church a young man, Sergei, repented. He plays the guitar well. He is from a needy family, had a hard life, and we pray for the Lord to strengthen his faith and use him for His glory. It would be so great if he would serve the Lord with his musical talent We even have started praying with faith so that the Lord will give us good instrument and musical equipment for this ministry. One of our upcoming plans is to organize Christmas Holidays in schools, if authorities allow us doing this. We also plan to go with our youth and sing carols to unbelievers. Thanks to this ministry, last year one woman came to the Lord.

A few weeks ago we had a special ministry with sermon and prayer for spiritual growth and unity of members of the church. Please join us in prayer for this need so that we will release from evil people, because not all the people in our church have faith (2 Thess. 3:2). It is very painful to see when such people defame God’s church in the eyes of other people. It is very hard to deal with this kind of problem.

May the Lord send to all of us His wisdom in the ministry to Him! We are so very grateful to the Lord for such wonderful friends as you. We love you very much and always remember you in our prayers. May you have a very blessed year!

With sincere love and prayers for you,

Ruslan Buryachok

Greetings to you, your families and church in the precious love of our Lord
and Savior Jesus Christ!

It is great joy for me to write you and tell you about our life and ministry to the Lord. Thank you so much for your letter to us. It was a great and pleasant surprise for us. It was great joy for us to see your faces, your Prayer House. From your photos we learned that your landscape differs from ours. It was so interesting to see the large cactuses and palm trees. It was joy for us to get acquainted with your new pastor and learn that he is great in yo-yo. Most of our people have no idea about how to play with this toy. Very encouraging for us were words that we are the part of your church and your ministry. It means very much for us. Your prayer and financial support mean very much for development of the ministry in Ukraine and in our town Lyubar. It is great privilege for us to know you and serve our Lord together with you. Our biggest dream is that you will be able to come to us. May our Heavenly Father richly bless you and fill your every need!

Every day of our lives we see the blessing hand of our Lord upon us. He gave us one more zealous lady to our team – she leads the prayer ministry in our church and zealously develops it.

We thank God for 4 new members of our church, whom we baptized in summer. Two of them already zealously serve the Lord. Praise God! One lady came to our church from another one.

Recently we spent a lot of time and effort on construction of the Sunday school classes. To save money, all of construction works we do by ourselves, but we do everything with faith and zeal.

The Lord blessed us to celebrate the Harvest Day and thank Him for the rich harvest on our fields. Many guests from other churches and unbelievers were present on this service. We thanked, worshiped the Lord and proclaimed the Gospel. We are very much grateful to the Lord for all those people, who helped us to organize this service (photo 3).

The Lord shed a lot of blessings upon us and it is impossible to describe all of them. Praise Him!

We ask you to pray for our youngest son Matfei. He gets sick very often and has the symptoms of bronchial asthma. Please, join our prayers for the construction of our Prayer House and pray the Lord to help members of our church to grow up spiritually.

Dear friends, we are very much grateful to you for your prayer and financial support of our ministry to the Lord. We pray for you and promise to keep praying for you, so that our Heavenly Father will bless you and the ministry of your church. We love you very much and always remember you in our prayers.

With sincere love and prayers for you,

Ruslan Buryachok