Ukraine

Hello everyone
We would like to start this update with a story from Christine about her time of ministry to a woman in the town of Yalta. This lady had come to Kharkiv to get some ministry and while this was going on Christine felt like the Lord was telling her to go there (Yalta) and spend some time with her just loving her and helping her in any way that she could. The following is how this happened in her own words;

We spent 3 days ministering and NOTHING. When I was praying for her at my home in my quiet time, the Lord showed me that she has a block. The block is that she does not believe that He is who He says He is and that she cannot receive love. He showed me that I need to be Jesus made manifest. I need to go be with her. Love her. Do not just read the bible to her; do not try to heal her emotionally, just to love her. When I told her this she just wept. She said that no one had ever just loved on her. So I am going to do, what? I do not know. I will pray and get to know her. When I was explaining to her what I wanted to do and why I wanted to do it I found myself saying something I did not understand. But I do now. I totally felt the Spirit on me when I was talking to her. I began to share with her about Gods love. The real love of God that we all have at one time or another had a hard time receiving. I told her about how if she were the only one on this earth God still would have sent His Son to die for her. How it is not about the masses of people. That if our whole life was spent helping, healing, and loving only one person that the Lord had called us to, that it would be enough. It is enough because Jesus character is like that. He cares about each of us so much. Here is what I said that I did not understand until now. I shared about me not being able to have a baby and all that goes with it. I said to her you know if I had kids maybe I would not be here (in Ukraine) and then I would not have met you. You know what. You are worth not having kids for. When I said that I meant it!!! It was only after that did I realize the extent of Gods love in my core being. I really got it!! My life is not my own, my dreams are not my own. My life is the Lords and IF my whole life is about doing or saying or being what ever He wants me to be to that one person then my life is complete. I mean we do not really believe that at all!!!! We are all about the masses. Do not get me wrong the masses are great but what if we only have ONE convert or ONE person completely set free from bondage? Do we think that that ministry was successful? Do we feel like we have accomplished anything? This is not personal against anyone, I am just asking. We do not really believe that one person is that important, do we? It is time we see people with Gods eyes and stop viewing people and ministries in numbers. The Gospel is not a numbers game!!!

Well for those of you who have been here and know many of the same friends
as we do I would like to give you all an update on who we have seen and
reconnected with. Also I apologize to everyone for not knowing everyone’s
last names but I will try to describe everyone in a way that those of you
who know them will recognize them.

On Tuesday the 11th we met with Pastor Armen and Pastor Igor Kuraksin
(He came with Bill once to St Luke’s) who had invited us out for lunch to
find out if there was anything they could do to help us while we are here
and we also made the same offer to them. It was a good time and for those of

1st Corinthians 12:31b "And now I will show you the most excellent way!" 1st
Corinthians 13:13 "Trust steadily in God, Hope unswervingly, Love
extravagantly. And the best of the three is LOVE!!!" (MESSAGE)
Doubtful that most of us actually believe this but the truth anyway! And
then the first verse of chapter 14 says in the Message Bible "Go after a
life of Love as if your life depended on it-because it does!"

Ok enough preaching but these verses and the "message of Love" has once
again been laid on our hearts like never before. People are starving for it.
Hope this update finds everyone doing well! We really have been having