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she’d done that, it was with great joy that she
was baptized and returned to her ecclesia in
Canada a baptized sister. The collateral bless-
ings of this work are huge. Please do prayer-
fully support it and get involved as you can.
Pictured at the bottom of page 24, you can see
Sarah with her hair wet from baptism, with
Daniel, far left, Anne, sister Ieva on the far
right, and Jim and Jesse Andrews, top right.
In January, during Rob and Debs’ stint in the
kitchen, it was a great joy to baptize Inessa,
pictured right, who speaks some English and
gave a short testimony. Typical of many people
in the former USSR she was raised a Commu-
nist atheist, and then started looking for God.
But she was soon disillusioned with the Russian
Orthodox church and began a long search for
God and His Son in spirit and in truth. She
heard about us from a friend and started
attending, and was so impressed to see young
people, still teenagers like Daniel and Sarah,
working so hard to care for and teach people.
So with quite some joy she was baptized; you
can see a video of it at:
In early February we had a really wonderful
talk about the Gospel from bro David Corbin
of Brooklyn ecclesia, USA (who was also our
speaker at the Ukraine Bible School) which
elicited a quite spontaneous ovation from the
100 or so people present! We were so happy
to then baptize Roman, a totally homeless
man not even in the night shelter system. He
has searched for the real Lord Jesus Christ for
26 years, passing through various groups on
his journey, and is now convinced he has
found Him in spirit and truth. His body is
largely covered in boils and skin disease is-
sues, but in the white baptismal gown, he
looked rather like representations of the Lord
Jesus seen in movies. Here truly was a man
coming to Jesus Christ and entering into Him,
a brother in Christ in truth. Below you can see
our new bro Roman talking with bro Vladimir,
left, Daniel centre and in the background you
can see sis Davian Corbin of the Brooklyn,
New York ecclesia.
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