Friday, December 2, 2011

WORD OF THE DAY - 02 December 2011 from Mykolaiv, Ukraine

And your house and your kingdom shall be made sure forever before me. Your throne shall be established forever. (2 Samuel 7:16 ESV)

И будет непоколебим дом твой и царство твое на веки пред лицем Моим, и престол твой устоит во веки. (2-я Царств 7:16 Russian)

І буде певним твій дім та царство твоє аж навіки перед тобою. Престол твій буде міцно стояти аж навіки! (2 Царе 7:16 Ukrainian)

Dear God, our Merciful Father in Heaven ~ Thank you for the incomparable blessings that we experience on this new day because of our trust in your unfailing love. Give us wisdom so that we will more fully appreciate the role of Christ as King of Kings over the worldwide spiritual Kingdom – the Church that he purchased with his own blood. In the blessed name of Jesus we pray, Amen.


In the morning yesterday, we were running around the town trying to get a key made and finally made it up to the central bazaar and found a guy we had used before. We needed an extra key to the Post Office, but when we came back to the P.O. the key didn't work. So, today we have to repeat that performance. We were given much joy as we returned to our work at the University with a group of 4th year students. Lesya Dobrovolskaya is the English professor who coordinates our activities along with Tatiana Myronenko, who is head of the English Department at Mykolayiv Sukhomlynsky National University. We had a great time with these bright young people by answering some of their questions about our recent trip to America. One young woman had visited the Columbus, Ohio area. They were very attentive to the lesson I presented from the Scripture about the benefits to society of following God and the perfect teachings of his Son Jesus Christ. It was a drizzly day for our walk over there and back to the church meeting place which is only a ten minute walk. We returned just in time for our Thursday Bible study with the church. David Ciolkosz, who hails from the United States, is visiting Nikolaev and was able to meet with us at our 3.00 PM meeting. After we dismissed, Tatiana who is the leader of the cultural department in the House of Culture where we meet, came to go over her request for help for many of the children in her group who are severely disadvantaged due to living in broken home situations. This is the Ukrainian folk dancing group that has represented Ukraine in international festivals in Bulgaria and Belarus. Last year we presented each child with one of the Children's Bibles and soon we plan to begin studying these lessons with the children who have parental consent. After we finally arrived home from our long day, Galina started back on her Dorcas ministry. She volunteered to wash clothes for a homeless man that we are working with to help him turn him life to God. A certain missionary, who was homeless in Magadan in 1994, was the recipient of her kindness. Vitaly is living in a little makeshift trailer which someone made available to him that doesn't have running water or other conveniences. Thank you for the prayers. 

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