July, 2003

We started to use English schools as one of the ways of making contacts last year and can say now that it is very effective. The number of groups increased, people from ES started to come to the church.

This year nine of ten IP teams had an English school. Our western partners that came from different parts of the United States helped them. All sessions consisted of two parts – English lesson that native speakers were leading and Bible study that mostly our staff was leading. Every participant had opportunity to express his or her ideas and thoughts during the discussion of passages from the Bible. It actually attracts people most of all in small Bible study groups.

At the end of every school teams together with leaders and American friends organized concerts. Sometimes ES attendants participated in that concerts, sometimes organizers showed their gifts and talents.

“This school is something special for me as you can communicate with native speakers and learn the language. And besides you have opportunity to learn about the Bible something that you never knew before” – shared Natasha Slizik from Kiev.

We hope that all fruits of these English projects appear very soon and our teams will have chance to gathers the harvest if Lord awards us for all the work we have done and give us plenty of new groups and add more people to the existing groups and churches.

In future we’re going to use language projects even more as God showed us it’s effectiveness. And of course we’re going to improve our skills in that

May God bless this work of His people that brings Him glory! Pray with us for the English school that will take place in Odessa in October and will lay the basis for the ministry in this new city for IP. Pray for the fruits of all schools and camps that have finished. Now it is very important for us to know God’s will and follow it in using blessings that He gave us!