Monday, May 3, 2010

Our ministry updates

Hello everybody,
After being away for almost three month there are lots of work that we need to do, I have a long list waiting for me. But it will have to wait a little longer because I want to share with you what God has been doing here, in Western part of Ukraine.
            We’ve been at home for two weeks already. As soon as we came back we went to kids’ and youth’s ministry. It was so great to see their faces and even some new ones again. We are so thankful to God for keeping them together while we were away. My sister Vira helped with the ministry when we were in the USA.
            For those of you who haven’t heard about our ministry, I would like to bring you up to date.
            Last September Steven and I started a new ministry with children and teenagers in a small town of Perechin, 5 miles away from our house. Most of them come from alcoholic families and as a result of that many of them feel unloved and uncared for. We are so honored to present them hope through Jesus Christ, Who saved us from a very similar situation.
We have meetings with both groups (kids’ and youth-teenager’s) on Saturdays. God has been blessing this ministry. We started with about 10 kids and now we have 20. Praise God!!! (If you have more questions, please ask, we will be glad to give you more information.)
Before we left, in February, we promised them that when we will be back we will bring them to our house and have a party for them. So, on Saturday of 24th we had all 10 of the teenagers at our home for homemade pizza. We had a great time together. We watched a very good, Christian movie, about consequences of bad choices. After movie, we had a great discussion with them on the same topic. I believe that God spoke to their hearts.
This Saturday we started a new, 6 weeks series for youth (teens) meetings, which is called “Inner Beauty”. Last time we had an introduction to it. We talked what beauty is, who puts parameters to define beauty and who is the original Creator of the real beauty.
Than we talked about internal and external beauty. With God’s help we are planning to focus on attributes of inner beauty such as love, kindness, honesty, loyalty and holiness. Please pray for these classes that God would work in those young hearts and if you have some ideas for visual lesson on this topics, please send me your ideas, I will be very glad and thankful for your help.  

Thank you for praying for us, Steven and Vita Kohutka