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Hello and GOD bless!  Just wanted to update everyone on the ministries here in Poltava over the last week or so, as many of you know our family is here on volunteer basis only. Thanks to support from Mississippi Baptist and our home Church, Springdale Baptist, we are able to be here on the field each summer.   Having said all that, we do work with  International Mission Board strategic coordinators, Mike and Lynda Ray.  They are the ones who suggested that Poltava would be a great match for our family and they were so right, now eight years later we are still coming and partnering with them and Salvation Church.

This week we had the wonderful blessing of working with two teams that came to Poltava through the Rays and IMB.  They were from F.B.C. Garden City, Georgia and F.B.C. Crossett, Arkansas.  They did children’s camps every day in four different areas.  The teams did a great job sharing the Gospel through Bible stories, testimonies, as well as just being Christ love, hands and feet.  Please pray for the continued work in these areas and the local Ukrainians who will we continue to try to meet with these children.  These are some of the people and places we would like to ask you to lift up daily, prayer is the key so please pray for these, GOD bless, I’ll post some of the photos from the week below.
Please pray for – The Red Way community (No Church here) please pray for Natasha as she continues to meet with these kids at her house, the Za Vorskala village (No church here) please pray for Roman & Ira as they continue kids meetings and adult home groups in this village, the Bethlehem area of Poltava (Pastor Slavic and Church family, Church construction), Chutivo village (pop. Around 6,000 with one small, young Church, please pray for Pastor Slavic and his family, their ministries in this village) Please pray for all the children and several parents and grandparents who heard the True Gospel of GRACE this week, many probably for the first time and please continue to pray for the Ray family as they live here permanently and coordinate various ministries all over east central Ukraine, especially these summer months when they are having multiple teams almost every week.  The Lewis family,  apprentice missionaries working here with the Rays, and Andrew Khudakov, our main missions coordinator for Poltava oblast, and very close friend.  He and a team of Ukrainians are in Georgia (the country) on missions this week.  Thanks again and GOD bless!  

Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know.  Jer 33:3