News from S-i-b-e-r-i-a
0 comments | Posted by St Peters on 12 Jan 2011 in Missionary Support ::
Here is the latest news from Vanya & Larissa in S-i-b-e-r-i-a.
Sent: Thursday, 23 December 2010 11:11
Hello dear friend!
We’re happy to share our joy with you – the most beautiful girl in the world :) was born in our family. Her name is Maria (Masha/Mashen’ka/Mashutka/Marusya) – 3.140 kg, 50 cm.
The last pregnancy was the time of worries and fears for us. Now we understand that God gave us one more chance to get more mature in our relationships with Him and with each other. Now when we are able to see Maria and to hold her in our hands, we are filled with tender feelings and gratefulness to God and we understand how dear this baby is in His eyes. Thank you for supporting us during last 9 months in your prayers!!!
MINISTRY NEWS
As we wrote to you before, we have started two groups in suburbs of I-r-k-u-t-s-k: small city of A-n-g-a-r-s-k and a village Homutovo.
- The Homebuilders group in A-n-g-a-r-s-k is up. Five couples from two A-n-g-a-r-s-k churches (from 1 till 25 years in marriage) went through the course of “Resolving conflicts in a marriage”. As always we feel blessed to serve people who want to build their families on God’s principles.
Please pray for Alexey & Tanya and Oleg & Dasha, who decided to lead the same kind of group together in their church next year. We’re planning to help them.
At the end of November we made “the whole day seminar” on “Bringing children up” by the request of “Love of Christ “ church pastor. We were surprised to have more male participants. We had an interesting discussion and we hope to do the last part of the seminar in coming year.
- Till December we were going to Homutovo each week and lead meetings for singles, most of whom are former drug addicts and alcoholics. Several people from our church always went with us and this communication lead to friendship between our churches. Each time we heard amazing testimonies about endless love and grace of our Father. We see the fruits of this ministry in our church also.
We want to thank you, our dear coworkers, for one more amazing year in the ministry when we see how God is strengthening the marriages here in S-i-b-e-r-i-a!!!
May you and your loved ones be surrounded in the warmth of Jesus’ love this Christmas! Have a blessed Christmas!!!
“Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven” (Matthew 5:16)
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