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Nathan and one by me. After dinner we had
another class by brother Nathan and finished
the rest of the daily readings. Each evening
we finished around 8:30 pm. A full day of
spiritual fellowship.
This was also my first experience of fellow-
ship with baptized Jewish sisters, well
educated in the law and the prophets, and
boy do they know their Bible and the Hebrew
root words and meanings! For me this was a
glimpse of the kingdom. Natural Israel finally
embracing their Messiah and the gospel of
the kingdom and name of Jesus.
I had to ask why there were so few young
men to be found around Kiev. All the military
aged young men are either in hiding, have
fled the country or are at the warfront in the
east. This war is seriously under reported in
the west. Please be not discouraged from
visiting because of this war, as I was at first.
Here in western Ukraine, where the capital is
located, it’s as quiet as the proverbial church
mouse. I haven’t encountered any problems.
The weather was great, even much warmer
than in USA. I seriously over packed,
expecting Siberian like weather conditions.
The prices are much cheaper here if you have
Western currency because the Ukrainian UAH
has lost much of its value. So please make
your next vacation here in the Ukraine and
help with the spreading of the Gospel.
The next Bible School is scheduled for six
months from now. Flights are cheap, no visas
are necessary from the US and European end.
The brethren here are so happy when they
get visits from western brethren. They
appreciate that we choose to share fellow-
ship with them rather than the beaches of
some tropical area. These brethren are our
family also and they spend almost the entire
year in isolation from the brotherhood.
Those who do the will of God are our REAL
FAMILY and Christ family (Matt 25). Nathan
and I left for our respective homes from
Riga, Latvia on Tuesday. The joy and pleasure
we shared with our brethren in eastern
Europe will not be soon forgotten. Two
lessons I learned from my visit is that there
is so much that can be done even if you don’t
speak a word of Russian. The second is the
extreme amount of work involved in running
the centre in Latvia, answering and
contacting requests from interested persons
and co-ordinating a brotherhood in isolation.
Thanks Bro Duncan for all the good you have
done and keep doing in the eastern European
vineyard. May God bless you and all the
helpers of the missionary work here. God
willing, yes I will be back.
Love in Christ, Bro David Corbin
Bro Nate Badger
reports on the journey to baptize Tamara:
“Part way through the 2015 Winter Bible
School in Ukraine, we received a call from
Bro Alexei to baptize his grandmother who
had been studying Bible Basics with him for
several months. With only a couple of days
left in the Ukraine, it became evident we
would need to make some creative plans to
reach her.
We hopped in a taxi, spent 1.5hrs fighting
through traffic to Borispol airport, and then
rented a car for the remaining 8 hrs south-
east. With the recent fighting in Ukraine, the
country’s rural roads have not been main-
tained and the majority of the trip was
tediously slow as we dodged thousands of
large potholes in the decaying asphalt.
Several times, we considered turning back
Bre David and Duncan giving a class