Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Urgent Ukraine trip


Hello dear partners in the Russia Ukraine Harvest Field!

Wednesday 22 April 2009, we plan to leave on a three-week trip to Kyiv, Ukraine (Kiev). We are scheduled to arrive at Boryspol airport on Thursday 23 April 2009. Our return is planned so that we will be back in Alabama on 14 May 2009.

Our mission is vital to some long-range plans that we have had regarding church planting in Ukraine. We will be meeting with some brothers and sisters in Kyiv who are working with two small and struggling congregations. We want to help begin a new congregation in this great capital city of over 3 million souls, or work with one or both of these churches to make a fresh new start. While we are there, I plan to preach each day for two weeks and conduct individual Bible studies with those who are interested in their soul's salvation. Galina's help as an interpreter is most important (as always) since she was born in Ukraine when it was part of the Soviet Union and knows both Russian and Ukrainian.

At the present time, the process of obtaining our visas to Russia is being delayed, and when possible, we strongly desire to be active in the plenteous harvest fields of the former USSR. We hope (positive expectation with the belief that it will come to pass) that our invitation letters from the Russian authorities will arrive in mid to late June. We then make our applications to the Russian Embassy in Washington for one-year multi-entry visas to Russia. If all goes as we hope, we should have our new visas by the end of June or early July.

Then, we can make plane and train reservations for our long missionary journey that will commence with a stop in Kyiv, and on to Magadan, back to Moscow, up to Komi Republic with a brief stop in Syktyvkar and later up to our work with the Inta church. Then back to Kyiv for some more work, and then back to the USA. All that travel and work will keep us busy out of the country for over 6 months.

Please keep this work in your prayers, that we will have safe travel, moreover that we will meet people whose hearts are open to God's word that contains the truth that makes men free from the burdens of sin.

The elders at the Dalraida church are acting as the sponsoring church for our work. In addition, since some churches are not able to contribute as they used to for this mission work, Dalraida has been picking up the slack. We hope we do not have to cut back on our travel plans. So many people are waiting to meet with us as we give and receive encouragement in the one true faith of Jesus Christ. If you are able to help us financially in this effort, please send your donations to the address below and mark for Russia Ukraine Mission Fund. If you have any questions you need to address to the Elders, please contact Bob McKee, elder. Tel. 334-272-2561, or e-mail: bobmckee@1access.net

Dalraida Church of Christ
3740 Atlanta Highway
Montgomery, AL 36109

With Jesus in the harvest field,
David and Galina

David Binkley, Sr., evangelist
RUSSIA UKRAINE GOSPEL MISSION
8116 Ansley Trace
Montgomery, AL 36117 USA
Tel. 334-277-4628

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