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websites when scouring the internet for
answers. He found what we were teaching
was closest to what he reads in the Bible.
Duncan, Maxim and Artem exchanged
messages and Artem completed the entire
Bible Basics course before he asked to be
baptised.
In Kiev and Odessa, we have seen many off
duty soldiers grouped in the train stations
and streets. It does seem a country at unease
so we ask for prayers of safe keeping for our
brothers and sisters here. We spent a whole
day distributing about 2500 leaflets. We took
a tram, just any tram, and waited until it
reached an area with high rise blocks. And
then we walked to another such area that we
saw on the horizon. Most of the blocks were
locked but we got quite good at following old
people as they approached the blocks, and
slipped in with them. Inside we found racks
of many letter boxes and we were spurred on
by the thought that each leaflet might be
the difference between eternal life and
eternal death for these people in their
rather sad lives. So many times we found the
locked doors opening for us. God was really
with us.
We must have walked around 20 miles that
day. As Paul says in Galatians 5:25, “If we live
in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit”.
This slightly mad journey full of waiting in
‘cheap and cheerful’ cafes, blizzards, hotel
rooms and dodgy saunas has taught me to be
more aware of God working in my life and to
trust in Him as He has certainly provided for
us”.
Sis Deb Cwiecek
Our new Bro Artem, centre, with Sisters Cardia and Deb and Bre Jon and Duncan
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e conducted a Bible School and pastoral
visit to a brother on a collective farm,
resulting in the baptisms of ALEXEI, LUBA and
TAMARA. We were graciously looked after on
our journeys. But the plight of our brothers
and sisters, especially pensioners, is very
bad. The Ukrainian Grivna is now relatively
worthless, but pensions and many wages have
hardly increased - whilst prices have at least
quadrupled. Infrastructure is broken down,
with the Government bankrupt, economy at a
standstill and the roads outside Kiev covered
with serious potholes; health care is now
extremely expensive. Several at the Bible
School have various health issues which they
need advice and help with. Others were
desperately worried about sons and grand-
sons who are now at the front; another was
terribly upset at having no money to bury a
relative. Unless the war finishes soon, there
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