So the Lord
has led and keeps leading through the period of the ministry partners search.
He taught me a lot during this period, He blessed and even showed few miracles
from some of which I feel “goosebumps”:-)
Parallely
to this there were many other events. I’ll tell you about two the brightest
ones.
On June 17,
the whole day, we had a soccer tournament of Christian Champions League which
was held in the partnership with other Christian sports ministries. 12 teams
took part in this tournament – the teams from different cities of Ukraine – Kiev,
Dniepro, Odessa,
Smela, Vinitsa, Mariupol, Zhytomir etc. There were more than 100 young men –
majority of them are non-believers who play soccer in the teams in their cities,
and either the coach of the team is a believer or they have some other members
of the team who are believers.
In spite of
the forecast, God gave great weather conditions. The opening was with the
Scripture from the book of James about the inner purity and the tongue. In the
middle of the tournament all teams were gathered right in the middle of the
soccer field and heard the testimony of our long time known friend from the
States who shared how God saved him from drugs and brought him to Christ etc.
The Great News was heard. We prayed and we continue to pray that “the seeds
which were sawn would grow in the hearts of these young men and would bring the
fruits of faith for the glory of Christ in the future in those teams where
these young men play”. We continue to partner and to communicate with the
believers from these teams.
This was
the 2nd year tournament. We hope next year it will be two days of
this tournament III.
(I was the
online broadcasting assistant :-)
More
pictures and the video can be found here
https://www.facebook.com/groups/Christianchampions/
Throughout
last few weeks we had meetings with the team of volunteers from the church “Revival”
where we plan to have the first sport community project “Sport Family” on July
24-28. Also from July 31 till August 4 we plan to have the same
project for the church in Dniepro “The Arc”.
We know that majority of children and teenagers don’t
live in healthy families. The goal of the project is to describe for them
through the Word and to show through our own example the value of family the
way God foreseen it to be. Healthy family has the following things which reign:
1) Love and joy (God loves you) 2) Mistakes acknowledgement and sincere
forgiveness (Man is sinful) 3) Stimulation of each other to develop and to grow
in learning the truth (The truth is in Jesus) 4) Decisions to be in family and
to follow Him (The necessity to take a decision to follow Christ).
Please pray for:
1) The hearts of the athletes from the Christian Champions League would continue to change in their teams, and that sports communities would be created there;
2) God would bless what He had a vision for us and, as we believe, what He gave us to plan: for the combined work of the team of volunteers from the churches in Kiev and in Dniepro, the arrival and the stay of our Dutch partners - coaches from Athletes in Action; for the advertising and the registration of children and teenagers from the neighborhoods of the churches "Revival" and "Ark" for the project, for the hearts of children, teenagers, their parents would be opened and would “return to God's family "; for our team of AIA (coaches, interpreter, spiritual mentors etc.)
3) Thanks to God for leading me in the difficult period of gathering support and please keep praying for my health (neck spine especially);
4) Repentance of my friend, a former basketball player, Anya, if God wills;
5) For the repentance of my relatives - my sister, brother, nephew - that they are reconciled truly with God through Christ.
1) The hearts of the athletes from the Christian Champions League would continue to change in their teams, and that sports communities would be created there;
2) God would bless what He had a vision for us and, as we believe, what He gave us to plan: for the combined work of the team of volunteers from the churches in Kiev and in Dniepro, the arrival and the stay of our Dutch partners - coaches from Athletes in Action; for the advertising and the registration of children and teenagers from the neighborhoods of the churches "Revival" and "Ark" for the project, for the hearts of children, teenagers, their parents would be opened and would “return to God's family "; for our team of AIA (coaches, interpreter, spiritual mentors etc.)
3) Thanks to God for leading me in the difficult period of gathering support and please keep praying for my health (neck spine especially);
4) Repentance of my friend, a former basketball player, Anya, if God wills;
5) For the repentance of my relatives - my sister, brother, nephew - that they are reconciled truly with God through Christ.
Thank you for your support and
prayers! Would love to hear how God is working in your life :)
With love in Christ,
Anya 
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