Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Exciting News

Well, here I am again,trying to remember things I want to tell you.
About our family:
We are so thankful that God is blessing and leading our family. 2013 was very blessed and yet challenging  year for us. Those that read my posts (sorry for such a long delay) know about a little boy Artem (or Tyomka) and how God spoke to our hearts to take him into our family. At the very moment we knew the answer yet our minds were straggling with all kinds of "What if..." questions. We said yes to our Maker and started the documents process. Well, it took much longer than was expected. But it is in the past now. We got our legal documents on December 31!!! So we all started a new page of our lives in 2014 and so far it has been great!!! Both boys fit so well together that I can only thank God Who does not make any mistakes. After we told Timka that now he has a big brother, he prayed that night "Jesus thank you for the BIG brother not a BABY brother"! (If anybody asked him if he wanted a baby brother or a baby sister, he always answered in a firm "No, NOTHING!")
Tyomka needs a lot of help physically as well as educationally but with God's help we will get there.
Timka is growing too fast for me, we just celebrate his third birthday. He is all in cars, trains and music. He makes up songs about everything than takes a little book, holds it as a guitar and "plays" those songs on his "guitar". He is very boyish. A few weeks ago we visited a little mountain church. When we came to the building he looked at it and said " I am not going into this church, it's for girls". I looked, and yes, it was pained in pink:) When his grandma says that he is beautiful (and in Ukrainian it is the same for both beautiful and handsome) he makes sure to let her know that he is not a girl, which did not make sense to the grandma until I gave her an English lesson on these differences:)
 About our ministry:
with God's help we started Christian English kid's club in the mountain village where we have been having VBSs and youth camps for the last three years. For now we are going there only once a month due to the absence of a transportation (but we started to save for our first car:) There is a big potential for an Evangelical church since there are none yet!!! And the people are pretty opened but now we are praying for our situation in Ukraine because we do not know what can happen if it goes like this.
Also we continue to work in our church, Steven as youth pastor and preacher  and I work with women. We have A bible study in our home twice a month and in between I meet with young girls. We are very blessed to to able to serve and give to God because He has done so much for us. We love Him with all of our hearts and it is our daily goal to live in the way that will please our Father.