Well, I'm going to endeavor to write daily in it now ... or at least as much as I can by making time for it after Christina goes to sleep. Some entries may not be long nor all that "spiritual" but I'll try to do better.
So in the last while a lot has happened. Easter ... chance meetings with people to share with about Jesus ... ministries ... bulletins ... all this stuff. It's kind of a lot to really tackle, but since I'm the author, I don't have to!
Instead, I'd like to tell you about what happened today. Saturday is always a busy day for me. Today, Brian and David (Africans) came over for their guitar lessons and I have decided that they've proceeded enough to not be led by the hand anymore, but instead we're going to be trying a new song at least every two weeks. They've really come a long way to the point that Jon has invited Brian to play at the conference with us which I think is pretty cool.
After that I had to do some running around to get prepared for tomorrow - buying cookies and water. I also had to go buy some power cords and stuff. It's funny, I can't find a cord long enough on a premade one so I ended up buying the pieces and making it myself (which took me an hour hehe!).
But tonight was the highlight of the entire day - an evangelism outing. We only had a few people from the church come - maybe 7 of us total including 4 from the ministry team. People began coming and sitting by us to listen to the music, but then Jon broke the 6th string of the guitar so I ran to grab a taxi and go get mine. That ended up being a blessing because he could keep playing (6th string isn't too important if you play in E) and I got to share a bit with the cab driver and hand him one of our tracts. When all was said and done, we handed out all of the invitations we had and even more people were hanging around.
People here are so open to hearing the gospel - it is amazing. We're going to go back out next week and make it a bigger thing with the sound system/mics and guitar hooked up. If you think about it, please pray.
I'm also going to include our latest list of prayer requests that I wrote our care team earlier tonight so that if anyone feels led to pray for us, please do! No person can change the heart of a man, but God alone is able to do it.
We are already outgrowing our meeting room which, if you are unaware, is a conference room near the train station. It is a great location because of how easy it is to find, but just isn't quite big enough. We were busting at the seams on Easter - praise the Lord! One prospective place we are looking at is an auditorium at the economical college which can hold a huge amount of people ... maybe 500-750?
Our health is better for all of us. Thanks for praying for healing!
Tonight we had an evangelistic outreach and it was awesome! We ended up giving out all of our invitations we had and handed out tracks to others - and this was to people who stopped and we talked with, not just passerbys! We see a lot of potential in making this a reoccuring event so we're again going to go out next weekend. Please pray for fruit!
Currently there is some unease for the foreigners in Ukraine due to recent changes in immigration law. Our next planned trip out of country is in the end of June to Hungary for the Eastern European Conference at the Bible College and we don't completely know what will happen when we leave nor when we come back. Please just be keeping this in prayer for us for the next couple months.
The national conference is in 2 weeks. Our church is doing the worship so I'm (Tim) being stretched by having to play an instrument that I've only been playing for a couple weeks and having to memorize all the notes and words. It's been hard to do this on top of everything else, but I know God will help everything work out.
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