"No pain - no gain" or No Jesus - No Life


How are you, how is life? We've opened our Sport Kids Community practices at the rented fields in the neighborhood of the church where we practiced last year during the warm season. My teammembers gave out flyiers with some of our volunteers. God brought some new parents and kids to us. On the pics below - the team meetings, the Bible study groups with our volunteers, the Bible study group with some of the girls from my church and from the Revival church, our AIA team building party (with the key volunteers) etc. Though i'm on a sickleave period my teammembers bring me periodically to the team meetings or they come over to my place (where I lived temporarily) I continue working online - doing financial and administrative things of the ministry. 








 There's a new key volunteer in our team - our coach of 3-7 years old kids - Vlad Sokolov. He graduated from the University of the Physical Education this year. He also parallelly works as a barber in the barbershop. Vlad is a diversified personality, he strives to build his life on the principles of being a Christ's disciple. He influences kids with wisdom and they love him very much. 
Also in our team there's a new full time volunteer - Max Baturinskiy. I know him since my time of helping Cru Kiev team with the English clubs. Max helps us in the media sphere, it is our strongest need. Max also graduated from the University of Physical Education, he has a good potential in media sphere, and he also wants to grow and be trained in this. 
                            As for my recovery - it's been 6 weeks since my surgery , the last X-ray showed that there are still some fragmented fractures on the side of my leg which need to cure and thus I'm not allowed to step fully on my traumatized leg and use the crutches for two more weeks. After living at my friends' place - a blessed Zibarovs' Family (on the pic below) - I moved to my place on the day of our country's elections. It was an interesting experience to vote on the crutches ;-) I continue to train my leg and my friends/neighbours/churchmates "take me out" periodically when they go outside with their kids in our living complex, they help to do groceries for me and so on. 







I praise Our Lord that He gave me such a real family of brothers and sisters!
Please pray for:
1) the parents and for the kids who are in our SC, so that they would come to know Christ and would find Him in the local church;
2) the full recovery of my leg and the healing of all fragmented fractures;
3) for my disciple Anya Mir (she abbreviated her last name and it means "peace" or "shalom") - so that the Lord would bless the decisions for her work and in her family;
4) fitness coach Lena who I met in the hospital - so that she and her family would want to come to the church and to the Bible study group;
5) AIA team and all the plans for the spring and for the summer as up to the Lord. 


Thank you very much for your prayers, for the practical help, for the support, for your care. 


With love in Christ,
Anya :-)


Basketball girls "Admirals" and about a soccer field of Sport Kids (and other "adventures")

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