March, 2003

• God gives His gifts for building Body of Christ! It’s a wonderful and very pleasant reminding. Marina as well as other women after 40 years old was rather skeptical to her life. Even the course of seminars with quite interesting name “Marriage without sorrows” that her daughter invited her to didn’t seem anything special. But her persistence in Bible study helped her to get changed and let God heal her heart. Two years passed…
  
  Marina learned how to listen to God and she heard something that amazed and inspired her and all her friends. God can speak through poems! Not everybody can write poems because all gift are different and we are different. Praise the Lord!
  
  Marina started to write poems and there are so many of them already! On March 17 God blessed her with her first poem. And she’s got a notebook to write all them down. She told them at a Sunday service and the whole church rejoiced together with her. Ten days passed and Marina is listening carefully to God’s words being afraid that He can fall silent in her heart. That was such a great and valuable present from God for her! And we know that He is faithful to those that call Him in pure hearts. Let’s pray for God to open His gifts in all brothers and sisters of HIS church!
  
  
  
• March was full of blessing from God. Churches are growing. There are groups in Cherkassy, Sympheropol, Zhitomir that are going to be baptized. All teams are getting ready for summer camps and English schools. Summer is going to be rather busy! Please pray with us:

• For the health of all staff and their families
• For two new cities where we want to start ministry
• For our churches, their growth in Spirit and in number
• For the leaders of small groups
  
• For all summer projects