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Student Mission
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Last
month 8 Ukrainians, 8 Moldovians and 4
Romanians gathered on the bank of the
Dnister river with one common goal -to share
the Good News of forgiveness through Jesus
Christ in the village of Chimichen. Not
long ago one of the villagers, Ioan, trusted
in Christ as his savior while traveling
abroad. The Lord then burdened him to
return to his home village and start a
church. Currently there about about 5
believers who meet in Ioan's home for
fellowship. Our student missions team
came alongside this new church plant helping
them with evangelism and encouraging them in
their faith. With
the hot summer days many people spend time
outside so this made it easy to meet people
and talk with them about the Lord.
Since only about 50% or fewer understand
Russian each team that went out to share the
gospel had at least one or two Romanian
speakers with them. One
one occasion several men angrily opposed our
students and threatened violence, however,
many others were open to talk about the
Bible and engage in discussions about sin,
death and the need for salvation, they also
gratefully accepted Bibles. At first a few
of the older villagers refused Bibles
because their eye sight was poor and they
had no reading glasses. Thankfully,
our students had also brought along a box of
used eye glasses! Free eye glasses not
only opened their eyes but also their hearts
to the truth of God's Word! Here are a few pictures or view the full gallery. Support the CMI's efforts in raising up Ukrainian missionaries through "U-can do it" |
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