Monday, April 16, 2012

WORD OF THE DAY - Monday 16 April 2012 Nikolaev, Ukraine


For the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” (Galatians 5:14 NIV)

Ибо весь закон в одном слове заключается: люби ближнего твоего, как самого себя. (К Галатам 5:14 Russian)

Бо весь Закон зводиться до одного, а саме: «Любіть ближнього свого, як любите себе самого». (Галатяни 5:14 Ukrainian ERV)

Most Holy God, our Dear Heavenly Father ~ we give you thanks for another spectacular day to live as objects of your love and very special provisions. Since Christ has already taught us plainly about “who is my neighbor”, give us wisdom and moral courage to show sincere love to those who are victims of all kinds of injustices being poured out by the greed of many people. Help us to obey our Savior by following in his steps as best we can. We pray in the precious name of Jesus, Amen. 






 It was Easter Sunday yesterday here in the land of Eastern Orthodoxy. In Nikolaev, we have the powerful cultural influence of the Greek Catholic Church, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church and the Russian Orthodox. Since it was a rainy Sunday morning, we didn't expect too many to come. Many people go to the various Orthodox temples for their all night vigil on Saturday night. We continued our simple and yet glorious worship on another Resurrection day. We only had 8 souls for worship and all stayed for our time of fellowship. We gave each person a little gift of an "Easter Cake" like the one our friend Inna gave us except ours came from a local bakery. It made for a tasty desert with coffee or tea. After the time of fellowship, we had good studies with Omo, Nastia and our new student Elena. Elijah (Omo) completed all the lessons I assigned him about the nature of the New Testament church and I checked his answers and we had good discussion. He led very sincere and clearly worded prayer during the worship. Nastia is very involved with her exams at the university and we only had time to check some of her grammar work. Galina taught Elena while I was helping Elijah and Nastia. We are very grateful to God for the many opportunities that come our way every day.

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