This morning our neigher came and said: I have bad news for you; the window in your car is broken. I thought: My ice skates are in the car, maybe someone needs them because this frozen weather is no joke. But, the ice skaes were in their place, just as was everything else 
Pray for these people that God would help them Him and have forgiveness of sins and receive eternal life.
Yesterday we had a representative demonstrate for us a miracle vacuum. Of course, it’s amazing, our matress is now vacuumed (thank you, Vitaliy Fomin), but the price is out of this world. I also shared with him the free gift of eternal life which God offers people. Yura (the Kirby rep) listened attentively and asked a lot of different questions. About the question, Will you be with God in heaven? He said he never thought about it. May God bless his seeking.
Galina Ivanovna (Tolik’s mom), Tolik (my sister’s husband) and Natasha (my sister)–these are people who really need our prayers. They’re not opposed to hearing about God, but so far, alcohol has first priority in their lives. Today we sang and talked with them about the importance of the soul (the inner man) and what we need to fill our souls with. The soul lives only by one thing: the promises in Christ. I gave them this homework, to read the Gospel of John again and underline all the promises given to believers in Christ.
I want to thank God especially and all those who prayed for my mom; God is showing her mercy and her faith in growing. She constantly takes part in our evangelistic outreach in Fenevichi.
Please continue to pray for Slavik. God is working a miracle in his life. And it’s a special privilege for me to see God, in front of my eyes, change his life and rebuild what is destroyed.
It’s minus 20 outside, so we didn’t think it a good idea to evangelize in the open air. But thanks to modern progress, there are lots of warm and comfortable places where people are happy to talk and listen about God. The central train station of Kiev is no exception. I’m so happy that Olya and Sveta are now quite able to go up to people and start a conversation about God and present the Gospel.
Yesterday, at first they wen up to one woman from Khazakstan (her friend also joined the conversation. They had a fairly long conversation about salvation. While saying good-bye, they gave them a tract about the gift of eternal life. Then they went to another girl, and she had a lot of questions about God. 
Like, why does God allow this or that to happen, why do innocent people suffer, and how can there be so much evil in the world if God exists? It’s good that a person thinks about such questions. It shows that she is seeking God not indifferently. We talked a little about these questions, then returned to the main question: we dont’ know why exactly this or that happens here on earth, but one thing we’re sure of is that we will be with God in heaven, and we want to tell you about that. When this main question is decided, then other questions find their answers,
One man we talked with, when we asked if this is important to him or not to know where he’ll be after death, he answered: I don’t care what will be then; now is the main thing. We had an interesting conversation with him about his business and how religion hurts his business. In the end, we said that the one thing that will be important to him in 150 years, is whether or not he’ll be with God in heaven, so give some attention to this; in this tract you can know more about it. May God bless you.
In this time, 9 people heard the gospel; may God nurture his Word of Salvation in their hearts.
Here are some names to pray for:
Yaroslav, Anton, Rostislav–3 guys who listened about God together
Oksana – a girl who listen to the Word and prayed about her salvation.
Alexei– listened carefully and agreed all the way up to the time of accepting eternal life, but when we asked if he wanted to pray to God, he said: what’s going on!?
Yestderday we had our second evangelism training meeting. Please pray for all the trainees that first of all God would help them understand the value of the power of faith in Christ’s blood. Even those people seem to believe in God, often hidden away in the depths of our hearts is hope in our works and merit–and this kills true faith. May God strengthen the faith of each of us, that we with all our hearts believed that our souls need nothing save Christ, and having Christ, we have all all, and all good and bad works together for our good.
Today Slavik and I met again. It seems that Slavik is seriously considering the questions about eternity. We were able to talk about what he read in the Bible and we prayed together. I think we’ll meet again tomorrow, so pray for him please, that God will help him go through these difficulties that are occuring in his family life, and through these things that he would see the power and mercy of God.
Slavik works at night as a taxi driver. Lately he’s been having major family problems. Right now, he understands that he can’t fix anything and that he’s guilty before God. He really listened to the gospel presentation and accepted it. Monday we want to meet again and talk more about faith and spiritual growth. Please pray especially for him, as he seems to be close to a breakdown and he sometimes thinks about suicide.
Today we started a new group about practical evangelism. Please pray about the families fo these trainees, that God would give them the evangelism experiences that would be exactly useful for each one. And also pray for those people who will hear the gospel during the duration of this class through us. This seminar will meet once a week until we’re finished, probably a month or two.
As I drove through Ivankov (the town where I grew up), I stopped into my mom’s. My mom was surprised that my two nephews (Bogdan and Sasha) came to see me. They congratulated me with New Year and Christmas. Their caroling was fuff of thoughts of Jesus Christ’s birth. Then I asked them: Did you read the tract I gave you? They said they read it.
-Good, then I will ask you questions, and if you answer correctly, you’ll get a prize.
They agreed and I asked:
- Why does God accept people into heaven?
- Well, if a person does a lot of good, goes to church . . .
Incorrect, I said. But I’ll give you a second chance. While I’m eating, you read the tract again carefully, and then I’ll ask you the questions again.
After lunch I asked them, and they gave very good answers. It was obvious that they read the tract well. Then we started a talk about salvation, and they both prayed. God help them trust only in Christ in this life and in the future, and not to hope on their deeds, but worship and thank Him with their deeds for His priceless gift of eternal life.
